Roy Hodgson is an English former footballer who is the manager of the England national football team. Hodgson has managed sixteen different teams in eight countries, beginning in Sweden with Halmstad BK. He later guided the Switzerland national team to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup and qualification for Euro 1996; Switzerland had not qualified for a major tournament since the 1960s. From 2006 to 2007, he managed the Finland national team, guiding them to their highest ever FIFA ranking of 33rd place and coming close to qualifying for a major tournament for the first time in their history. Other clubs that Hodgson has managed include Inter Milan, Blackburn Rovers, Malm� FF, Grasshoppers, FC Copenhagen, Udinese, Fulham, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion. Hodgson served several times as a member of UEFA's technical study group at the European Championships and was also a member of the FIFA technical study group at the 2006 World Cup. Hodgson speaks five languages and has worked as a television pundit in several of the countries in which he has coached. On 1 May 2012, Hodgson was appointed as manager of the England national team and officially assumed his duties on 14 May. 

August 9th, 1947 in Croydon (Age 76)