Dan Ashworth in discussions on the potential return of Fa
As a player, Ashworth was at the Academy of Norwich City and spent a season at Peterborough United as director of the Academy before becoming director of the Center of Excellence in Cambridge United.
Ashworth, who has a UEFA Pro license, left that role in 2004 to join West Brom and became their sports and technical director before being appointed in England Director of elite development In September 2012.
He was responsible for the elite elite teams in England, as well as for the education and coaching of the FA.
The men’s team of England, under the manager Roy Hodgson, has not managed to win a game at the 2014 World Cup and has undergone an embarrassing loss for Iceland in the last 16 years at Euro 2016, with Hodgson who resigns immediately.
Gareth Southgate was his substitute and led England to the semifinals of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, their best performance since 1990.
While Ashworth was at FA, the women’s team of England also reached a world cup semifinal, losing in Japan in 2015.
After the 2018 World Cup, Ashworth left Fa to become Technical director In Brighton, before taking the position of sports director in Newcastle in February 2022.
He remained there for two years before Manchester United adopted an official approach to Newcastle for Ashworth, who was put on leave for gardening for five months before he was able to do it Start from Old Trafford in July 2024.
But it only lasted five months in the role in a 2024-25 season that saw Manchester United Lott in the Premier League and their Sack Erik Ten Hag manager in October.
In an interview with the BBC Sport at the beginning of this month, the co -owner of Manchester United Sir Jim Ratcliffe called called Take Ashworth “An error on our part”.
