75 year old coach
BBC: Senior Premier League coach Hodgson wants to continue
Roy Hodgson, 75, wants to continue working as a coach. photo
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Football coach Hodgson is already 75 years old. But the veteran coach is not thinking about retiring.
At the age of 75, coaching grandpa Roy Hodgson wants to expand his record as the oldest head coach in the Premier League. The football teacher will extend his contract with London’s first division club Crystal Palace after his summer vacation, the BBC reported.
Hodgson took over the club last season as Patrick Vieira’s successor in the relegation battle and still led it to eleventh place in the table. Palace therefore asked Hodgson for a longer engagement.
The football veteran can look back on more than 45 years as a coach. At 75 years and 292 days, he holds the age record for a manager in the Premier League. That’s how old Hodgson was at Crystal Palace’s last game last season. Bobby Robson and Alex Ferguson were both 71 years old when they last coached England’s top flight.
Hodgson was previously head coach at Liverpool and Inter Milan, among others, and was England national coach from 2012 to 2016. He had already wanted to end his career in 2021, but then returned to the bench at Watford FC a year later.