Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink joins Gareth Southgate and England coaching team ahead of Euro 2024 qualifying matches
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Published 21/03/2023 at 15:55 GMT
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has been reunited with Gareth Southgate after confirming his move to become part of England’s coaching staff. The pair were team-mates at Middlesborough for two years from 2004, before Southgate became manager in 2006 and decided not to renew Hasselbaink’s contract. England play Italy and Ukraine in their opening Euro 2024 qualifiers on Thursday and Sunday.
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Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has joined England’s coaching staff ahead of their Euro 2024 qualifiers this week.
Hasselbaink is reunited with manager Gareth Southgate, after the pair were team-mates at Middlesbrough between 2004 and 2006.
The 50-year-old replaces Chris Powell, who left his role following the World Cup in Qatar to focus on his role as head of coaching at Tottenham’s academy.
Since resigning as manager at League One side Burton Albion, Hasselbaink has not had a coaching role since September.
He was picture with Southgate at St George’s Park, England’s training base, on Tuesday.
The Three Lions are back in action for the first time since their defeat to France in the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup, as they take on Italy on Thursday and host Ukraine at Wembley on Sunday in their opening Euro 2024 qualifiers.
Southgate will be England manager for at least another 15 months, having decided to stay until his contract runs out after next year’s tournament in Germany.
He had expressed doubts about his future, citing England’s poor Nations League campaign last year, and the backlash from that as a reason for his uncertainty about staying on after the World Cup.
England had a torrid Nations League campaign where they failed to win any of their six matches, including a 4-0 defeat to Hungary, and were relegated from League A to League B.
"I was worried after that game the team would be affected by the narrative about whether the manager stay or go, and when we went into the games in September we were a little bit anxious,” he revealed to BBC Sport.
"At Wembley against Germany the crowd weren't against their team but they were waiting to see what happened.
"I've been around teams where that can inhibit performance, and the last thing you want as a manager is that your presence is divisive and inhibits performance.
"I knew I had support with the players and [the FA], there are bigger things at stake with England than just [that].
"My only concern was when it feels like there might be division between what the fans want and where my position might have been, that can affect the team, and I was conscious of that leading into the World Cup.
"I felt we had great support, but I was conscious, how would things be during and after?"
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