Parkeran strikes again with another brilliant deduction. you know that doesn't make him a brilliant coach...

throughout history, yeah...but none off the top of my head, the sauce is flowing so it's not so good at the moment.

I think that the Socceroos were better under the control of Hidink.

hmmm fair call but atm... benitez...many others that are as good a coach? not bein sarcastic im really askin lol

slippy memory :P
I think spain could stand up to a similar inspection though.

No if you remember correctly ranieri coached Chelsea before Mourinho and Vialli coached them before that. But whats more important than all of that is champions league and world cup victories in the italian coaches i have mentioned earlier. Not many countries can face up to that record i assure you

Scott ODonnel is a Sydney born player from the Windsor/Richmond area. I believe he played state league here and then moved I thought to Malysaia to play professional football. I think he played for only one or two clubs over 4 or 5 years then became a player coach. He also enticed many sydney state league players over to play and be paid as highly prized professionals.

And of those, only Capello has coached outside of Italy.

Yeah but for some reason Italian coaches don't all too often coach outside of Italy (national teams anyway).

I'd like to see an Italian coach take on another country's gig to see what happens.

ohhh gee cant believe you didnt put italy there!!! Ranieri, Arrigo Sachhi, LIPPI, Capello, Ancelotti!, mancini **catches breath**

Seems to me Scotland and the Netherlands seem to be the leading coaching countries! Certainly for Quantity.

well, he can't be very good anyway can he??
And as much as the top teams in the EPL are all coached by foreigners, they're all european, and all western european at that.

According to the almighty reliable Wiki his name is Scott O'Donnell. Sounds right I think. SBS have interviewed him in the past, thats the only reason why I knew about his existence.

oh ok who is he by he way?

I never said that he was good enough to coach the Socceroos. I was just pointing out that this:

wasn't entirely true. Thats all.

do you really think that guy would have even the slightest chance to coach socceroos???i think not!!!!who ever they get they better do it fast.

I am pretty sure the national coach of Cambodia is Australian. He has been there for a number of years now.

So there's at least one!! ;)

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But the top teams in the EPL are all coached by foreigners!

ton.of.bricks - this is a real vendetta of yours isn't it?...but i'm inclined to agree.

The main reason that there are so many players playing overseas is because of the money, not because of the skill.

The Aussie coahces aren't doing the same because they dont have the skill to stand up and get noticed and in a place like england, where they have 24 Coahces in league one (for arguemnts sake, lets say that's the standard of the a-league) to chose from. far more competition for the top job than there is here.

Too Right Mate

The FFA are sorting the new coaching problems out. It will take time.
Im hoping we will never ever have to have a coach for the socceroos who is inexperienced, unqualified and incapable of coaching as the coaches at the helm currently for the asian cup.

about time somebody agrees with me!!ive been saying for years that our coaches need to go training overseas in europe or sth america for a period of 6 to 8 years before they go chasing socceroos coaching job!!!!!!!

Australia is perhaps the leading country in numbers of players playing football overseas, but how many australian born coaches work outside the country? Not a single one. Doesn't say much about the domestic coaching talent, does it?[-(