Roy Hodgson

Roy Hodgson <a href="/facts/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire/HlY9buuN">CBE</a> (born 9 August 1947) is an English <a href="/facts/Association_football/yttjeD0D">football</a> manager and former player, who most recently managed <a href="/facts/Premier_League/nfXVuAYa">Premier League</a> club <a href="/facts/Crystal_Palace_F.C./ffc8tVwQ">Crystal Palace</a>.
He has managed 22 different teams in eight countries, beginning in Sweden with <a href="/facts/Halmstads_BK/nDbl2SEY">Halmstad</a> in the 1976 season. He later guided the <a href="/facts/Switzerland_national_football_team/57Ts2BzC">Switzerland national team</a> to the last 16 of the <a href="/facts/1994_FIFA_World_Cup/17zzH74g">1994 World Cup</a> and qualification for <a href="/facts/UEFA_Euro_1996/CwIlfpud">Euro 1996</a>; Switzerland had not qualified for a major tournament since the 1960s. From 2006 to 2007, he managed the <a href="/facts/Finland_national_football_team/PW34frRt">Finland national team</a>, guiding them to their highest-ever <a href="/facts/FIFA_World_Rankings/S58lKvNe">FIFA ranking</a> of 33rd place and coming close to qualifying for a major tournament for the first time in their history. He managed the <a href="/facts/England_national_football_team/N71IuE3t">England national team</a> from May 2012 to June 2016. Other clubs that Hodgson has managed include <a href="/facts/Inter_Milan/IpxpcC5I">Inter Milan</a>, <a href="/facts/Blackburn_Rovers_F.C./IHkcX4RL">Blackburn Rovers</a>, <a href="/facts/Malm%25C3%25B6_FF/P1srxreI">Malmö</a>, <a href="/facts/Grasshopper_Club_Z%25C3%25BCrich/8TrSNGTu">Grasshoppers</a>, <a href="/facts/F.C._Copenhagen/xGdNXPsh">Copenhagen</a>, <a href="/facts/Udinese_Calcio/F0CogCf7">Udinese</a>, <a href="/facts/Fulham_F.C./eclkBVKX">Fulham</a>, <a href="/facts/Liverpool_F.C./uzPanAVJ">Liverpool</a>, <a href="/facts/West_Bromwich_Albion_F.C./3VuGLCpT">West Bromwich Albion</a>, <a href="/facts/Watford_F.C./IkUydn8X">Watford</a>, and boyhood club Crystal Palace, whom he managed for 200 games across two spells. 
Hodgson served several times as a member of <a href="/facts/UEFA/UafFnEBe">UEFA</a>'s technical study group at the <a href="/facts/UEFA_European_Football_Championship/EFWkyW5j">European Championships</a> and was also a member of the <a href="/facts/FIFA/wC2aqLnn">FIFA</a> technical study group at the <a href="/facts/2006_FIFA_World_Cup/esV0aC00">2006 World Cup</a>. Hodgson speaks five languages, and has worked as a television <a href="/facts/Pundit_(expert)/oomwPJcD">pundit</a> in several of the countries in which he has coached.

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