Gareth Southgate

Gareth Southgate strikes me as one of football's rare genuine gentlemen. A Crystal Palace defender who captained the club to a First Division title, he later managed England from 2016 to 2024 and dragged a long-underachieving side back onto the biggest stages. What I respect most is not the results but his insistence on treating players as whole people, a humanity that earned him a knighthood and, I think, deserved it. I will always trust a composed, principled leader over a touchline shouter. There is a quiet, almost Virgoan thoughtfulness to him that I find genuinely admirable.

Name (English)

Gareth Southgate

Name (Japanese)

ガレス・サウスゲート

Reading

がれす・さうすげーと

Born

September 3, 1970 (age 55)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dog

Origin

Watford, United Kingdom

Height

183 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

University

Croydon College

Awards & achievements

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire
• Knight Bachelor

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/grthstgt/
• Xhttps://x.com/GarethSouthgate
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth%20Southgate
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AC%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q316681

Tags

• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.