From Accrington Stanley to England No 2 - who is 'all round good egg' Barry?

"We tried to name Anthony arsenic our manager," says Fleetwood Town's main enforcement Steve Curwood astir Anthony Barry, England's caller adjunct boss.

"He was keen to prosecute with us. This was erstwhile Frank Lampard near Chelsea [January 2021] and I deliberation Anthony thought helium was going to beryllium retired of the door."

In fact, Barry was kept connected astatine Stamford Bridge and went connected to forge specified a beardown narration with Thomas Tuchel, Lampard's replacement, that the German took him to Bayern Munich earlier the caller England brag named him arsenic his adjunct connected Wednesday.

Liverpool-born Barry, 38, spent 13 years arsenic a midfielder successful England's little tiers, playing for Yeovil Town, Fleetwood Town, Accrington Stanley and Wrexham among others.

After superior wounded astatine the property of 24, helium decided to ore connected his coaching badges and 5 years aboriginal took complaint of Accrington Stanley Under-16s successful 2015.

"I retrieve my archetypal league truthful clearly," Barry told the Euros Essential Football Podcast, external successful June.

"It was a Tuesday night, determination were astir 10 players, I had a 3rd of a pitch, and not capable balls and not capable bibs!

"But I simply fell successful emotion with coaching, and connected that nighttime I knew it was perfectly everything I wanted to do."

Nine years connected from Accrington Stanley Under-16s, Barry's thoughts are turning towards the 2026 World Cup arsenic helium gets acceptable to statesman his caller relation connected 1 January 2025 alongside Tuchel.

Barry, from the Childwall country of Liverpool, started retired arsenic a trainee astatine Everton earlier moving to Coventry City wherever helium was a regular successful the reserves.

His archetypal sensation of Football League enactment came astatine Yeovil and successful 2007, 2 days earlier his 21st birthday, helium played astatine Wembley successful the League One play-off last against Blackpool, who won 2-0.

Aged 23, helium upset Wrexham brag Dean Saunders erstwhile helium passed a aesculapian with the Welsh nine earlier helium changed his caput and joined Fleetwood, who were playing 1 league below.

"He knows helium has fto maine down," said erstwhile Liverpool and Wales striker Saunders astatine the time. "I'm not truthful definite it's a bully vocation determination for him football-wise."

In the end, Barry helped Fleetwood Town triumph promotion to the Football League playing alongside Jamie Vardy, who went connected to play for England 26 times.

"He was meticulous successful everything helium did, truthful erstwhile I spot him present arsenic a manager I americium not surprised," Micky Mellon, Barry's brag astatine Fleetwood betwixt 2010-2012, tells BBC Sport.

"I americium not going to beryllium present and accidental I expected him to beryllium England's adjunct manager.

"You can't accidental that astir anybody. But looking backmost and knowing the qualities that Anthony has - the professionalism, he's a existent pupil of shot - I'm delighted helium has got an accidental to spell and enactment for the nationalist team.

"We got promoted to the Football League. Anthony was a large portion of that radical and was ever a bully lad to person astir the place."

After turning down Wrexham earlier successful his career, Barry yet played for them successful 2016 but it was not agelong earlier helium retired from playing aged 31 due to the fact that of injury.

He joined League One Wigan Athletic arsenic adjunct to Paul Cook successful 2017.

"From past on, the adjacent 7 oregon 8 years person accelerated astatine specified a complaint that I surely didn't expect," Barry told the Euros Essential Football Podcast.

As good arsenic Chelsea, Barry's coaching CV includes stints arsenic adjunct manager of the Republic of Ireland, Belgium and Portugal, moving with the likes of Romelu Lukaku and Cristiano Ronaldo.

"I'm lasting successful beforehand of satellite superstars who not excessively agelong agone I was watching connected the television, but beauteous rapidly you person to adapt," helium said.

"You person to dainty them precisely the aforesaid arsenic each subordinate you've ever worked with... dainty them with love, with warmth, with a tendency to amended them."

Barry is simply a 2020 postgraduate from the FA's Pro Licence and achieved apical marks for written enactment and his attraction to detail.

Barry's dissertation focused connected throw-ins, which saw him ticker 60 hours of footage involving each 1 of the 16,380 throw-ins taken successful the 2018-19 Premier League season.

"He's a well-respected coach, different helium wouldn't person lasted successful the situation and been championed by those helium has been astir for the past fewer years," added Curwood.

"Anthony is an all-round bully ovum and I'm delighted for him."

Barry has established a beardown narration with Tuchel connected and disconnected the grooming pitch.

Following Bayern's 4-2 decision astatine Hoffenheim connected the last time of past season, Tuchel opted not to alert backmost with the remainder of the team.

Instead helium and manager Nicolas Mayer drove backmost with Barry, who was incapable to alert owed to an cognition connected his knee.

According to Bild newspaper,, external Tuchel wanted to amusement solidarity towards Barry.

"It wasn't conscionable solidarity, we wanted to springiness thing backmost to Anthony," said Tuchel.

"It was our past distant crippled - and helium agreed to travel with america contempt the operation.

"That's wherefore Nico and I took the roadworthy travel with him backmost to Munich."