The England Under-20s supervisor, Ian Foster, has left the Football Association to paintings as assistant supervisor to Steven Gerrard in Saudi Arabia. Foster, a former Liverpool student who led England to the Under-19 European Championship name closing yr, has joined Gerrard at Al-Ettifaq.
Foster leaves the FA after six years operating with quite a lot of age teams. The 46-year-old, who joined after a spell as first-team trainer at Portsmouth, was once assistant to Steve Cooper when England gained the Under-17 World Cup. Foster additionally served as an assistant to Phil Neville with the England girls.
Gerrard’s group of workers may even come with the technical trainer Tom Culshaw, with whom the 43-year-old labored at Rangers and Aston Villa, the health trainer Jordan Milsom, who additionally adopted him to Rangers and Villa, and the analyst Ray Shearwood, who spent greater than a decade with Liverpool’s academy.
Gerrard stated a “family feeling” had satisfied him to signal a three-year contract with the Saudi Pro League membership, in spite of first of all announcing he would reject the transfer. Last week, Gerrard’s former Liverpool teammate Robbie Fowler was once named supervisor of Saudi second-tier aspect Al-Qadsiah.
Al-Ettifaq, who completed 7th within the Saudi most sensible flight closing season, is on a coaching camp in Croatia. Gerrard, who led Rangers to their first Scottish league name in 10 years in 2021, was once sacked by way of Villa closing October.
“When I went to Saudi I got a real family feeling,” Gerrard stated. “It made me feel welcomed. There are three things I always consider in order: it needs to be right for my family first and foremost – we have to be excited and motivated by the challenge; secondly, he football project needs to be ambitious, it needs to be for the right reasons; and then you need to feel secure with the contract, but this comes at the very end.”