Gareth Southgate OBE, football manager

Desert Island Discs

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🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Gareth Southgate OBE is the most successful England men’s football manger in the modern game.

He holds the record as the man who has represented England in more games than anyone else, with 102 games as men's senior team manager, 57 caps as a player and 37 as men's under-21 head coach, leading to a total of 196 games in which he has been involved as a player or coach.

It’s a remarkable career and one which shows his resilience and determination. Ever since he joined a football team as a schoolboy, he dreamed of being a footballer and perhaps one day, wearing the England shirt. He was rejected by Southampton as a teenager and was determined to come back and succeed. He managed to do that, playing for Crystal Palace, Aston Villa and Middlesbrough as a defender and midfielder. After his playing career ended he went into management eventually becoming one of the England national team’s most successful managers. Along the way, his different approach to leadership in sport, together with his quest to understand what is Englishness makes him one of the most impressive football managers in England’s history.

Southgate is an Ambassador for The Prince's Trust and Help for Heroes.

DISC ONE: The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby and the Range DISC TWO: Rainy Days and Mondays - Carpenters DISC THREE: Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears DISC FOUR: The Whole of the Moon - Waterboys DISC FIVE: One - Mary J. Blige, U2 DISC SIX: Shape of You (Stormzy Remix) - Ed Sheeran DISC SEVEN: Someone Like You - Adele DISC EIGHT: Experience - Ludovico Einaudi BOOK CHOICE: The Chimp Paradox by Dr Steve Peters LUXURY ITEM: Coffee CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Experience - Ludovico Einaudi

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0:37.1	Hello, I'm Lauren Levern, and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.
0:40.8	Every week, I ask my guest to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
0:48.6	And, for rights reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
0:53.4	I hope you enjoy listening. My castaway this week is the former footballer and manager Gareth Southgate.
1:21.3	He recently called time on the biggest job in English football.
1:24.7	For eight years and 102 games, he has carried the hopes and heartache of
1:29.3	millions of fans, not to mention the England men's team on his perfectly tailored shoulders.
1:34.8	Nobody has represented England more than him, first as a player, then as a coach.
1:40.0	As a leader, he distinguished himself by what he did and how he did it.
1:45.0	The nation's most successful manager in the modern game,
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