Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink joins Gareth Southgate and England coaching team ahead of Euro 2024 qualifying matches

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has joined England’s coaching staff ahead of their Euro 2024 qualifiers this week. Hasselbaink is reunited with manager Gareth Southgate, after the pair were team-mates at Middlesbrough between 2004 and 2006. Ad The 50-year-old replaces Chris Powell, who left his role following the World Cup in Qatar to focus on his role as head of coaching at Tottenham’s academy.

Euro QualifyingHaaland to miss Euros qualifiers due to injury7 HOURS AGO Since resigning as manager at League One side Burton Albion, Hasselbaink has not had a coaching role since September. He was picture with Southgate at St George’s Park, England’s training base, on Tuesday. The Three Lions are back in action for the first time since their defeat to France in the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup, as they take on Italy on Thursday and host Ukraine at Wembley on Sunday in their opening Euro 2024 qualifiers.

Southgate will be England manager for at least another 15 months, having decided to stay until his contract runs out after next year’s tournament in Germany. He had expressed doubts about his future, citing England’s poor Nations League campaign last year, and the backlash from that as a reason for his uncertainty about staying on after the World Cup. England had a torrid Nations League campaign where they failed to win any of their six matches, including a 4-0 defeat to Hungary, and were relegated from League A to League B.