Steve McClaren
McClaren as manager of Twente (2012 )
Steven "Steve" McClaren ( May 3, 1961 in Fulford, York, England ) is a former English footballer and current manager of Derby County.
Youth
McClaren attended Nunthorpe Grammar School, which is known for the active school sports give a great importance. McClaren was at this time also very athletic, daily drove 16 kilometers to his school by bike and actively playing squash, which he emulated his very talented father there. Other sports which McClaren pursued, were rugby and tennis. However, his breakthrough, he was able to celebrate in football, as he made it to a youth selection of the county of Yorkshire. He joined then in 1977 at the age of 16 years the junior section of the club Hull City on.
Playing career
During his playing career, the midfielder McClaren acted mostly in the lower professional leagues. After his involvement with Hull City he played for Derby County, on loan at Lincoln City and then have for Bristol City and Oxford United, until an injury in 1990 forced him to end his active career.
Coaching career
Beginnings as a reserve and assistant coach
Shortly after he had hung up his football boots on the nail, McClaren started his coaching career with the reserve team of Oxford United, where acted at this time Jim Smith as manager. In 1995 he was promoted to the first team Kotrainer, followed Smith when he moved to Derby County and assisted this well at his new club. In December of 1998 he accepted an offer from Manchester United, where he became the successor to Brian Kidd as Kotrainer by Sir Alex Ferguson. In the return series he won with Manchester not a game and won after the treble of the English Championship, FA Cup and Champions League.
Middlesbrough FC
In the summer of 2001, he offered the president of FC Middlesbrough, Steve Gibson, to take over the head coach office. McClaren took on the task and reached with his new team in his first season at first the FA Cup semi-final, where he, however, Arsenal were beaten 0-1. In 2004, he won with Middlesbrough after a playoff victory against Bolton Wanderers at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff with the League Cup, the first trophy in the club's history and thus also qualified herself for the first time for a European club competition. He then undertook internationally experienced players, such as Ray Parlour of Arsenal, and came with his team in the Premier League 2004 /05 to seventh place in the table, which represented the highest Premier League placing in the club's history and re- qualification for the UEFA Cup earned. In the FA Cup 2005 /06 McClaren came with the Middlesbrough FC again in the Cup semi-final, reaching the UEFA Cup 2005/ 06 even the final, in which one of the Sevilla FC, however, clear subject in May 2006 with 0:4.
England national team
McClaren, alongside his work as a club coach and assistant to Sven -Goran Eriksson in the England team. He practiced this activity since 2000, when as England manager Peter Taylor worked on an interim basis in the short term.
On 23 January 2006 the British Association announced that Eriksson is no longer manage the England national team after the 2006 World Cup in Germany. McClaren subsequently developed alongside Luiz Felipe Scolari, Martin O'Neill, Sam Allardyce and Alan Curbishley to one of the Football Association (FA) preferred successor candidates. After a lengthy selection process, as a result Scolari recanted his interest, McClaren was appointed on 4 May 2006 as the new England manager. His uncommitted four-year contract started on 1 August 2006.
McClaren's choice was accompanied by criticism and approval. While Alan Hansen criticized the duration of the competition and suggested that primarily the good performance of Middlesbrough FC was decisive for the personnel decision by reaching the UEFA Cup final, in favor of other experts, including Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Trevor Brooking, the decision of the FA.
After failing to qualify for the European Football Championship 2008, the contract was terminated with McClaren already on 22 November 2007. During his 15-month activity he failed to shape the team into a unit. Was particularly critical of his inconsistent handling of the former captain David Beckham, whom he first screened and then brought back. McClaren was mocked in the end as " McClown ". After the premature termination of the contract McClaren said to have received a severance package of more than three million euros.
FC Twente
In summer 2008, McClaren took over as coach at Dutch club FC Twente. There he took over from Fred Rutten an intact team that had finished fourth in the standings in the 2007/ 08 season. This success could McClaren in the Eredivisie 2008/ 09 still increase and landed behind the AZ Alkmaar in second place. The team also reached the final of the KNVB Cup, had to be there but on penalties to SC Heerenveen defeated. The 2009/10 season started very well and McClaren's team sat down firmly on the top of the table. Rate this place they were also in the Cup finals again and not the coach led the club to the first league title in club history. With a total of 86 points the team had as many as never introduced since the 1995 3- point rule. Until then, the record stood at 69 meters, which took McClaren in the previous year. After the end of the season the Englishman, was honored for his performance with the Rinus Michels - Prize, an award for the best coach of the year. He was the first foreigner who received this item.
VfL Wolfsburg
On 11 May 2010, McClaren has signed a two -year contract with VfL Wolfsburg on July 1. He is the first English coach who coached a team from the 1st Bundesliga. With McClaren's arrival in Wolfsburg, the team changed their image. Players such as Christian Gentner, Jonathan Santana, Obafemi Martins and many other players left the club. The prestigious New Items were Cícero Santos, Arne Friedrich, Simon Kjaer and Diego. With these changed squad, the club went with high expectations for the season 2010/11. Until the winter break McClaren could but do not meet and was at an early stage in the review. Finally, the team found at Christmas in 13th, just four points ahead of the relegation zone, again. On 22 December it was eliminated by the second-division club Energie Cottbus in the DFB Cup. After just one win in their first four games of the season the Englishman was suspended by the club Board of Directors on 7 February 2011. For the time being it took his assistant coach Pierre Littbarski.
Nottingham Forest
During the summer break in 2011 McClaren took over as coach for the English second division club Nottingham Forest. In the European Cup Winners ' Cup in 1979 and 1980, it should be his job to lead the club for the first time since the Premier League 1998/99 again in the first English league. After ten games, of which Nottingham only won two, however, this commitment was disbanded on October 2, 2011.
FC Twente to the Second
During the winter break 2011/12 FC Twente McClaren committed again. He followed the Dutchman Co Adriaanse as coach and manager. His contract ran over two and a half years. After his team had remained in the Eredivisie six games without a win and dropped from the top spot to fifth place, McClaren resigned as manager on 26 February 2013.
Derby County
On September 30, 2013 McClaren was unveiled as the new coach of the English second division club Derby County.