Roy Hodgson

Roy Hodgson

Roy Hodgson is the manager of Premier League club Crystal Palace. He has managed 16 different teams in eight countries, beginning with Halmstads BK in 1976. Other clubs that Hodgson has managed include Inter Milan, Blackburn Rovers, Malmö FF, Grasshoppers, FC Copenhagen, Udinese, Fulham, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion.

About Roy Hodgson in brief

Summary Roy HodgsonRoy Hodgson is the manager of Premier League club Crystal Palace. He has managed 16 different teams in eight countries, beginning in Sweden with Halmstads BK in the 1976 season. He later guided the Switzerland national team to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup and qualification for Euro 1996. Other clubs that Hodgson has managed include Inter Milan, Blackburn Rovers, Malmö FF, Grasshoppers, FC Copenhagen, Udinese, Fulham, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion. Hodgson was a moderately successful youth player with Crystal Palace, but was never able to break into the first team. After leaving Crystal Palace he played non-league football for several years with Tonbridge and Gravesend & Northfleet. In 1974 Hodgson returned to England for his final playing spell, joining Carshalton Athletic. He then joined Maidstone United, where he played and also served as assistant manager to Bob Houghton. In 1972, after a year at Maidstone, he moved to Ashford Town while also working as a PE teacher at Alleyn’s School in south London. In 1985, he took over at AIFällby FF, which he led to five consecutive league championships, two Swedish Cups and two European Cups. In his first season at Örebro SK, he finished third, but missed out on promotion to Allsvenskan after losing in the play-off. In 1982, Hodgson moved back to Sweden to take over at IK Oddevold part-way through the 1982 season. Hodgson himself says that \”my greatest achievement would have to be the water-into-wine job at Halmstad in 1976 is considered one of the biggest surprises of all time in Swedish football.

He was dismissed after four months in charge of Bristol City due to the club’s financial problems he was largely unsuccessful and was sacked in April 1982. He managed the England national team from May 2012 to June 2016. He was also part of UEFA’s technical study group at the European Championships and was also a member of the FIFA technical studygroup at the 2006 World Cup. He speaks five languages and has worked as a television pundit in several of the countries in which he has coached. He is also a part of the Inter Milan coaching staff and has been involved in the coaching staff at Inter Milan and Liverpool’s pre- and post-match warm-ups for the UEFA Champions League matches. He also has a role in the management of the UEFA Europa League and the European Champions League qualifiers for UEFA and the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifiers for both the UEFA and UEFA Euro 2012 qualifiers. He played for Berea Park in Pretoria, South Africa, despite the sporting boycott of South Africa in effect at the time. In 1986, he was assistant manager at Bristol City in his native England and was manager from January to April 1982, when the club finished third in the Premier League. In 1988, he led Malm Ötbro FF to the Intertoto Cup in 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989.