Steve Mc Claren

Steve Mc Claren

Stephen "Steve" McClaren (born 3 May 1961) is an English football manager and former player, formerly manager of Dutch team FC Twente.

His managerial career began at Middlesbrough in the Premier League, who won the League Cup in 2004 and were runners up in the 2006 UEFA Cup final. McClaren then served as manager of England from August 2006 to December 2007. He was sacked after England failed to qualify for the 2008 European Championship. In 2008 McClaren became manager of FC Twente, with whom he won the club's first Eredivisie championship in the 2009–10 season. He then worked as manager of VfL Wolfsburg in Germany between May 2010 and February 2011. After a short spell as manager of Nottingham Forest, he returned to Twente in January 2012.

Despite his successes at Manchester United, where he had been assistant manager to Alex Ferguson from 1999 to 2001, and Middlesbrough, he was strongly criticised by the English media following England's failure to qualify for Euro 2008. McClaren's time in charge at FC Twente saw his professional reputation recover somewhat after he managed them to the Eredivisie title for the first time since their founding in 1965, though he was subsequently dismissed from VfL Wolfsburg and Nottingham Forest.

His return to FC Twente was initially greeted with enthusiasm and the club was deemed to be one of the favourites to the 2012/2013 Eredivisie championship at the start of the season. However, after unsuccessful results at FC Twente, McClaren resigned his position on 26 February 2013.