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|Date of birth||colspan="2"|3 May1961
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|Place of birth||colspan="2"|Fulford, York, England
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|Current club||colspan="2"|England
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|Position||colspan="2"|Manager
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|1979–1985 1985–1988 1988–1989 1989–1992||Hull City Derby County Bristol City Oxford United||
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|1992-1995 1995-1999 1999–2001 2001–2006 2006–||colspan="2"|Oxford United reserves Derby County (assistant) Manchester United (assistant) Middlesbrough England
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* Professional club appearances and (goals) counted for the domestic league only.
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Steven McClaren (born 3 May1961 in Fulford, York) is a former professional footballer and former manager of English Premiership team Middlesbrough. He has left the club and will become manager of the English football team on 1 August2006.
McClaren went to Nunthorpe Grammar School for Boys in York (now Millthorpe School), which encouraged its pupils to take an active role in sport. McClaren was sporty and fit at this age, cycling ten miles every day to go to the school. He played squash - following his father who was a talented squash player - as well as rugby and tennis. It was at football that he excelled, however, representing North Yorkshire as a youngster. He joined Yorkshire club Hull City as a sixteen-year-old apprentice in 1977. ["The Making of an England manager"] - BBC News, 4 May 2006
Playing career
As a player, McClaren was a midfielder who spent most of his career in the lower leagues of English football. After leaving Hull City, he played for Derby County, Lincoln City (on loan), Bristol City and Oxford United before an injury forced him to retire in 1990 ["Rock solid Steve"] - BBC Sport profile, 4 May 2006'' .
Shortly after hanging up his boots, he began his coaching career as reserve team coach at Oxford, where Jim Smith was manager . In 1995, he became first-team coach, and later followed Smith to Derby, where he was his assistant manager ["Jim Smith backs protege McClaren"] - BBC Sport, 4 May 2006. In December 1998, he accepted the opportunity to become assistant manager under Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, replacing Brian Kidd. His first half-season was marked by United not losing any games, taking the Treble in the process.
In the summer of 2001, McClaren was offered the position of manager of Middlesbrough by club chairman Steve Gibson, and has been a success in the role. He achieved an FA Cup semi-final place in his first season, losing to Arsenal. He was then in charge as Middlesbrough won their first ever major honour, winning the League Cup in 2004 against Bolton Wanderers at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, taking them into European football for the first time and overseeing the recruitment of many big-name international footballers to the club, including former Chelsea star Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink. He also has pushed the team to reach their highest finish in the Premiership, 7th in the 2004-05 season, which gave them another run in Europe. In the 2005-06 season, Middlesbrough achieved a semi final place in the FA Cup and they lost 4-0 to Sevilla of Spain in the UEFA Cup final in May .
Domestic
Oxford United (youth, reserve team coach) (1992–1995)
Derby County (first-team coach) (1995–1999)
Manchester United (assistant manager) (1999–2001)
Middlesbrough (manager) (2001–2006)
International
England (coach) (2000-2006;)
England (manager) (2006–)
McClaren and England
From November 2000 to July 2006 McClaren held the position of senior national team coach to the England football team, first under caretaker-manager Peter Taylor before being given the position on a permanent basis by Sven-Göran Eriksson.
Some criticized the selection of McClaren as manager. Though describing him as a good choice, pundit Alan Hansen was just one of many who claimed that the process of choosing a new manager had gone on too long ["Hansen's view on McClaren"] - BBC Sport, 4 May 2006. He also thought that the FA had been overly swayed by Middlesbrough's good run of form during the second half of the 2005-06 season, which saw them reach the final of the UEFA Cup. However, his selection was praised by numerous other commentators, including Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Trevor Brooking["Reactions to McClaren appointment"] - BBC Sport, 4 May 2006
