{"id":10426,"date":"2012-05-02T20:30:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T18:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/soccer-south-africa-revels-in-hodgson-connection\/"},"modified":"2012-05-02T20:30:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T18:30:51","slug":"soccer-south-africa-revels-in-hodgson-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/soccer-south-africa-revels-in-hodgson-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-South Africa revels in Hodgson connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n

By Mark Gleeson<\/span><\/p>\n

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JOHANNESBURG<\/span> May 2 (Reuters) – Hillview High School in
\nPretoria can claim to have been the starting point of Roy
\nHodgson’s coaching career which has now spanned four decades and
\nculminated in the England manager’s job.<\/p>\n

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Hodgson took a part-time job as a physical education teacher
\nand coached the school’s soccer teams when he went to South
\nAfrica to play in his late 20s from 1973 to 1974.<\/p>\n

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Headmaster JM Hepburn said the school was delighted to
\ndiscover the connection.<\/p>\n

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“We are still a competitive school at soccer, we don’t play
\nany rugby here,” he told Reuters from a city traditionally more
\nobsessed with the oval ball game.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Hodgson is remembered by some of the youngsters he took
\ncharge of when asked to also coach the Northern Transvaal
\nprovincial under-13 side at the national championship in Durban
\nin 1974.<\/p>\n

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“I was too young to notice anything that might have
\nsuggested he would one day become manager of England,” quipped
\nformer striker Noel Cousins, “but he must have been good because
\nwe went on to win the tournament which hadn’t happened for the
\nprovince in years.”<\/p>\n

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Among the talented team was Roy Wegerle, who later played
\nfor Chelsea and Blackburn Rovers and appeared at two World Cups
\nfor the United States after leaving South Africa and marrying an
\nAmerican.<\/p>\n

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Sportswriter Neal Collins was also on the fringes of the
\nsquad and said Hodgson was an outstanding youth coach.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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