Foreign born managers

Eggybread All Time Stoke City XI Posts: 4,117 Member is Online	Foreign born managers Oct 15, 2011 13:10:59 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Eggybread on Oct 15, 2011 13:10:59 GMT Just having a conversation about managers and we are trying to find out who was the first foreign born manager to manage in the English top flight? Any ideas? Cheers.
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Inverness Stokie All Time Stoke City XI Goarrrrn Stoke Posts: 13,932	Foreign born managers Oct 15, 2011 13:23:02 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Inverness Stokie on Oct 15, 2011 13:23:02 GMT Wasn't it Jozef Venglos? Used to be Villa manager in the early 1990's and managed Celtic in 1999.
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Hiram
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Foreign born managers Oct 15, 2011 14:41:18 GMT

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Post by Hiram on Oct 15, 2011 14:41:18 GMT

according to the Daily Mail (so it must be true...)

First foreign player to play English League football: Max Seeburg (German), Tottenham, 1908/09.

First foreign player of the year: Bert Trautmann (German), Manchester City, 1956.

First foreign manager of an English top-flight club: Dr Jozef Venglos (Czech), Aston Villa, 1990.

First foreign player to captain an FA Cup-winning team: Eric Cantona (French), Manchester United, 1996.

First foreign manager to win FA Cup: Ruud Gullit (Dutch), Chelsea 1997.

First foreign manager to win the double in English football: Arsene Wenger (French), Arsenal, 1998.

First foreign England manager: Sven-Goran Eriksson (Swedish), 2001.

First club to field an all-foreign starting XI: Chelsea (v Southampton), December 26, 1999.

First club to field an all-foreign squad: Arsenal (v Crystal Palace), February 14, 2005.

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-337865/English-footballs-trailblazing-foreigners.html#ixzz1arTYsrSM

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Eggybread All Time Stoke City XI Posts: 4,117 Member is Online	Foreign born managers Oct 15, 2011 15:55:12 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Eggybread on Oct 15, 2011 15:55:12 GMT Thanks..
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Stokie Mcpot Stoke City Legend Posts: 2,459	Foreign born managers Oct 15, 2011 16:09:09 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Stokie Mcpot on Oct 15, 2011 16:09:09 GMT trust arsenal to be the first to field an all foreign squad. cunts.
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