Alex Brotherton
BBC Sport journalist
The Football Association's hunt for an England manager has ended with the assignment of Thomas Tuchel.
On Wednesday - 92 days aft Gareth Southgate resigned - the FA announced that Tuchel volition instrumentality implicit from interim caput manager Lee Carsley connected 1 January 2025 connected an 18-month contract.
German Tuchel, 51, becomes lone the 3rd non-British imperishable manager of the England men's squad aft Sven-Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello.
But however did helium extremity up successful complaint of England? And who is Anthony Barry, his English assistant?
Where is Tuchel from?
Tuchel was calved successful the tiny municipality of Krumbach, Bavaria, successful 1973.
He began his shot travel playing for his section inferior grassroots club, TSV Krumbach, wherever helium was coached by his begetter Rudolf.
Hans Komm, Tuchel’s erstwhile PE teacher, told BBC Sport: "Thomas was an outstanding footballer. He played a captious relation successful the schoolhouse shot team, who were German champions successful 1987."
After showing committedness arsenic a defender, Tuchel joined Augsburg's younker academy but was released astatine the property of 19.
He joined Stuttgart Kickers successful the German 2nd tier, earlier dropping to the 4th part to play for SSV Ulm.
A genu wounded forced Tuchel to discontinue successful 1998 astatine the property of 25, but helium had already laid the foundations of his coaching career.
Who has Tuchel managed?
Tuchel began coaching during his last play astatine Ulm, arsenic good arsenic studying for a concern grade and moving successful a cocktail bar.
Ralf Rangnick - 1 of German football's astir influential coaches - gave Tuchel his archetypal coaching accidental by hiring him arsenic a youth-team manager astatine VfB Stuttgart successful 2000.
Tuchel helped with the improvement of aboriginal Germany internationals Mario Gomez and Holgar Badstuber earlier returning to Augsburg successful a akin relation successful 2005.
Tuchel took complaint of the club's 2nd squad successful 2007 aft gaining his Uefa pro licence, and joined Bundesliga broadside Mainz 05 the pursuing year.
After winning the Bundesliga Under-19 rubric successful his archetypal play - the archetypal successful the club's past - Tuchel was promoted to first-team manager and soon began to excel.
"He made specified a phenomenal content connected maine that helium became manager of our elder team," Mainz managing manager Christian Heidel said.
After starring Mainz into the Europa League doubly successful 5 seasons, Tuchel stepped down and took a twelvemonth retired of football.
In 2015 helium returned with the unenviable task of replacing Jurgen Klopp arsenic Borussia Dortmund caput coach, earlier helium joined Paris St-Germain successful 2018 and Chelsea successful 2021.
In 2023 Tuchel replaced Julian Nagelsmann arsenic Bayern Munich manager, but helium near astatine the extremity of past play with a twelvemonth remaining connected his declaration aft they failed to triumph the Bundesliga rubric for the archetypal clip successful 12 years.
What has Tuchel won?
Tuchel is wide regarded arsenic 1 of the champion tactical coaches successful the satellite and that is reflected by his awesome CV.
He won his archetypal elder trophy successful 2016-17 erstwhile Dortmund lifted the DFB Pokal, Germany's home cupful competition, earlier winning Ligue 1 with PSG successful 2018-19 and a home treble successful 2019-20.
While Tuchel was connected the losing broadside successful the 2019-20 Champions League final, helium went 1 amended the pursuing twelvemonth arsenic Chelsea bushed Manchester City successful Porto.
The Uefa Super Cup and Club World Cup followed aboriginal successful 2021, earlier Tuchel returned to Germany and won the Bundesliga rubric with Bayern successful 2022-23.
Why was Tuchel sacked by Dortmund, PSG and Chelsea?
While Tuchel has an awesome shot brain, immoderate radical person recovered him hard to enactment with.
He was sacked by Dortmund, PSG and Chelsea aft his narration with nine hierarchy became strained, and the aforesaid crushed contributed to his walking distant from Bayern.
"Thomas was a passionate subordinate who gave his each connected the pitch, but sometimes helium had fewer friends among his team-mates due to the fact that helium was exacting and demanding, which didn’t spell down good with immoderate of the players," erstwhile Augsburg younker manager Heiner Schumann told BBC Sport.
"He is not an casual idiosyncratic oregon casual to woody with, but each bully coaches are complicated.
"Complicated means they are besides tough. They marque demands connected those astir them, their players, from greeting to night, and for that crushed they are unthinkable coaches."
Who is Tuchel's adjunct Barry?
Tuchel worked with Anthony Barry astatine Chelsea and Bayern.
Barry, 38, spent 13 years arsenic a midfielder successful England's little tiers, playing for Yeovil Town, Fleetwood Town and Accrington Stanley among others.
After retiring successful 2017, helium joined Paul Cook's coaching unit astatine Wigan Athletic aged 30.
He joined Frank Lampard's Chelsea coaching unit successful 2020 and started moving with Tuchel successful 2021 erstwhile Lampard was replaced, earlier linking up with Tuchel again astatine Bayern successful 2023.
"He has the full bundle - personality-wise, the emotion for the game, the emotion for the job, the passionateness for it and the quality," Tuchel said of Barry past year.
"His presentations connected the grooming transportation astatine Chelsea were of the highest level."
Barry specialises successful set-pieces, having written a dissertation connected throw-ins arsenic portion of his pro licence course, which helium presented to classmates including Lampard and Michael Carrick. At Bayern helium was successful complaint of each dead-ball situations.
Barry worked nether Roberto Martinez with Belgium and Portugal astatine the 2022 World Cup and 2024 European Championship respectively alongside his nine duties.