'I danced in Gareth’s shoes' - how England coaches Chris Powell and Gareth Southgate bonded as youngstersBack in 1989, the England head coach was representing Crystal Palace's youth team on a trip to Portugal alongside Chris Powell, now his assistant coach.
"I think we were forged by those moments in the Palace youth team. He ended up being captain and I left the club, so we went a different route, but it has brought us back together." This meme of Southgate the manager consoling Southgate the player has been shared widely on social mediaSouthgate, a boyhood Manchester United fan, attended Pound Hill Junior School and Hazelwick School, both in Crawley, Sussex. He has said both schools were "fundamental" in him taking up football, largely because of his PE teachers.He was very self-assured. I remember the last chat I had with him as a schoolboy.
He was mature, had a good sense of humour and a big smile. He was respected by his peers and teachers. He was very thoughtful and clever, as well as having a sharp wit. He set himself him high expectations in everything he did, whether in the classroom or on the sports field. I introduced him to an estate agent friend of mine that got him to do some work after training. He was measuring up, mundane stuff, looking to see if a property could be marketed or not. All of these things help build the character you become. It opened his eyes to what was out there and showed him what it was like to deal with people outside football.
Southgate played every minute of England's Euro '96 campaign, which ended with his decisive penalty miss. When he became England manager, he said he did not think he would ever have to go through a worse experience.Not long ago, I made a documentary about Euro '96 and I asked Gareth if I could speak to him. He politely declined because he knew the one thing we wanted to talk about was the penalty miss and he'd had enough of it. Still, to this day it will be hurting him.
Because the players' room was next door to the TV room and the interviews were going out live, once we got the song title in, you could hear a roar when the players realised you'd done it. I could see he was a thinking man. He thought about the training we did, why we did something in a certain way. You could see he lived for football. He was very eager to learn and I wouldn't be surprised if, at that time, he was thinking of being a manager in the future.
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