Former Brighton manager Chris Hughton says English soccer has missed out on a”generation” of Asian, black and minority ethnic managers and trainers, partially caused by a lack of role models.
The former Birmingham, Newcastle and Norwich boss was sacked as manager of Brighton this season.
He had been commended by League Managers Association chief executive Richard Bevan for becoming a”role model for young managers and coaches in the game.”
The prior left-back, that played for Tottenham, West Ham and Brentford from 1977-1993, insists not enough action has been taken to attempt to boost the quantities of trainers and managers.
“I came via a age where the perception of black people within football was great centre forwards, great wingers, fast, powerful, but not quite captain or direction substance,” he told CNN.
“The disappointing truth is we have not made this advancement, we dropped a production of really influential black players which could have made quite great supervisors.”
At the start of this year, Football League clubs now have to interview at least one black, Asian or cultural minority candidate for the position of a first-team manager.
Presently, there are only Nuno Espirito Santo at Wolves four managers working from the Premier League and also EFL, Sabri Lamouchi at Nottingham Forest, Darren Moore in Doncaster and Keith Curle in Northampton.
Sol Campbell became the first managerial casualty of 2019/20 after directing them to League Two safety last term afterwards that he had been dismissed as director of Macclesfield.
“I have spoken to lots of black and white cultural players across the years that wanted to manage,” Hughton added.
“They’ve looked for that pathway, and they could not find those role models that in effect could reveal them a pathway”
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