Former Brighton manager Chris Hughton says English soccer has missed out on a”generation” of Asian, black and minority ethnic managers and coaches, partly caused by a lack of role models.
The prior Newcastle, Birmingham and Norwich manager was sacked as director of Brighton earlier this year.
He was praised by League Managers Association chief executive Richard Bevan for being a”role model for young managers and coaches at the game.”
The former left-back, that played from 1977-1993 Tottenham, West Ham and Brentford, insists not enough action has been taken to attempt to boost the numbers of BAME coaches and managers.
“I came via a age where the understanding of black individuals within football was good center forwards, good wingers, quick, strong, but not quite captain or management material,” he told CNN.
“The disappointing truth is that we haven’t made that progress, we lost a generation of very influential black players that could have made very great managers.”
As of the beginning of this year, Football League clubs have to interview a minumum of one or minority candidate to get a first-team supervisor’s position.
There are just Nuno Espirito Santo at Wolves; four BAME managers operating at the Premier League and also EFL, Sabri Lamouchi in Nottingham Forest, Darren Moore at Doncaster and Keith Curle in Northampton.
Sol Campbell became the first casualty of 2019/20 after guiding them to League Two safety term afterwards that he had been dismissed.
“I have spoken to several black and white ethnic players across the years that desired to manage,” Hughton added.
“They’ve looked for this particular pathway, and they couldn’t see those role models which in impact could show them a pathway”
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