When I was coaching at Kentucky - I was a grad assistant and I just got through playing and we won the NCAA Championship in 1978, so I stayed after I got through playing - we had Japan's national team coach Mototaka Kohama come to Lexington to spend the year and study basketball. He and I became great friends, so we hung out together.
Football is not just in Europe, there is football all over the world so I am always open to the idea of managing anywhere in the world.
There aren't many English managers, I suppose, who've had the sort of career that I've had, outside the country. With the amount of money that is going around in the Premier League, not many people are tempted to move abroad.
At some point, I would like to coach Argentina, but I have to improve as a coach. I would like to do it in the final stretch of my career.
Regarding my coaching philosophy, I think it is important to adapt to the team/players and the culture in the country where you are coaching, but to keep possession is a key issue wherever you are.
One of the reasons why I wanted to be part of the League Managers Association was because I felt there were an awful lot of foreign coaches coming into these shores, but we were not exporting enough British talent.
I'd been coaching since the end of my playing career, first with England's Under 21s, then Manchester United, and finally, in Spain with Valencia.
I coached Afghanistan for seven months. Out of those, I spent five and a half away from home.
I don't think you've ever coached till you've coached an Asian team.
It's good that we have good managers like Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger in this country, but I think we should be trying to send out some of our managers to other countries to help not just the development of themselves but the leagues over here. It can enhance their careers.
When I was coaching in Turkey, my players played well.
If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn't I do so in my own country?
We've always got to look for opportunities for our English coaches to get more experience than just doing county coaching gigs. They need to do more than that if they're going to be viable candidates for England jobs going forward.
I love coaching internationally because I can develop people, but it's hard to do that in the T20 environment.
I was fortunate enough to coach the U.S. Olympic team in Australia.
When you are coaching an international team, you are running a programme for 12 months of the year. You get to influence peoples' careers.
I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.
Nearly all of these Chinese girls that have had success have had coaching from foreign coaches.
I talk to a lot of European coaches. I got friends over there that I steal stuff from, talk to, maybe have them look at what we're doing and say, 'Hey, what would you do differently?'
