In summary: England’s national team manager Gareth Southgate has changed his style of clothing in order to communicate better with the young team he leads in European Championship 2024. Previously, Southgate was known for wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat and tie, but has now chosen a more everyday style. Southgate believes that the style of clothing can affect how he is understood by the players, and wants to appear calm and relaxed. Football expert Kristoffer Løkberg believes that the change can have an effect, as it shows that Southgate is prepared and thinks about details. Norway’s national team manager Ståle Solbakken and clothing designer Andreas Feet are skeptical of the change, and believe that it has little effect on the players. England has never won the EC, and there are great expectations for the team in this year’s tournament. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAI. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. – It is very special. I have not heard of anyone who has said that before. That’s what news’s football expert Kristoffer Løkberg says about the change in English national team manager Gareth Southgate. Great expectations are attached to the English in the EC. With an exciting and relatively young team, there are many who have Britain as favorites to go all the way in the tournament. Took unusual action With so many young talents in the same team, Southgate saw himself forced to take action. Because how do you communicate well with young players who could just as easily be Southgate’s sons? Yes, he chose to change his style of clothing. For a number of years, the English national team manager was often seen wearing a suit jacket, with a waistcoat and tie underneath. Now he has moved away from the well-dressed style and likes to wear more everyday sweaters, without a suit jacket over it. The 53-year-old is clear that it is a conscious choice. – When you wear something, you come up with a certain expression. I’m aware of that now, Southgate told the British magazine GQ recently. STYLISH PAST: Gareth Southgate was best known for his tight suit vests. Here from the semi-final during the football World Cup in 2018 when England went out against Croatia. Photo: AP He has now managed England for a full eight years, but it can be argued that he has never managed such a star-studded national team as he is doing during this tournament. Bukayo Saka (22), Phil Foden (24), Declan Rice (25) and Kobbie Mainoo (19) are part of the younger generation who can play an important role for England. – When you work with young boys, you don’t want to dress too stiffly – neither in what you do or what you wear, said the national team manager. There are many on the ball island who have caught on to the style change in the trainer’s profile. The sale of one of the garments he wore in the GQ case increased by a whopping 130 per cent. England open the EC against Serbia at 21.00 Sunday. You can watch the match on TV 2 and listen to it on news Radio. – Older man who tries to dress like a youth But does the change in style have any effect? Norway’s national team manager Ståle Solbakken leans against no. – Then I think you are at the extreme margins, i.e. blood alcohol level. Carlo Ancelotti (Real Madrid’s manager) wears the most expensive suit and vest and still manages to create a pleasant environment, says the national team manager to news. Andreas Feet, who is a tailor and clothing designer known for example from the news series “Symesterskapet”, snorts at Southgate’s change of style. – I think this is more harmful than good, says Feet. RESPECT AND AUTHORITY: The most important thing is to achieve respect and authority among the players. They must listen to you and trust you. It goes far beyond the clothes, says Andreas Feet, who is a tailor and clothing designer. Photo: anders amdal He points out that clothing can be used as a signal, but that dressing down to try to meet the players is a stupid choice. – It becomes like an older man trying to dress youthfully to fit in with his sons. It just doesn’t work. It will be a shell hideout, says Feet. – Being noticed, Løkberg, for his part, believes that Southgate’s change of clothes may have something to do with it. – There is no doubt that a group of players responds better to someone who looks accomplished and prepared versus a lazaron who puts on the first and best and comes down to the dining room, he says. The news expert admits that we are talking about details and that it is about extracting every single percent to get the players to perform. – Such things are noticed in the player group. There is a level of detail where he really thinks about everything. The fact that he wants to appear calm and relaxed and wants to fight for those margins is in any case not something negative, Løkberg believes. He continued: – Why not do things one hundred percent carried out in the pursuit of “taking it home”? HAS BELIEVED: news expert Kristoffer Løkberg thinks Southgate’s move has something to do with it. Photo: Nicolai Eid Trondal England’s men’s national team has never won the European Championship and they have only won the football World Cup on one occasion, in 1966. – They are manically concerned with breaking that barrier in England. You don’t want to sit as a football coach and think that you wouldn’t have done anything differently. As a trainer, you are so sick that you don’t want to turn over a single stone, Løkberg points out. England are in a group with Slovenia, Denmark and Serbia, and it is expected that they will easily progress to the round of 16. First match on the program for Southgate and co. is Serbia on Sunday at 18. Published 16.06.2024, at 07.52 Updated 16.06.2024, at 08.03
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