{"id":341014,"date":"2025-08-13T11:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341014\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T11:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:26:22","slug":"ex-liverpool-u21s-coach-takes-up-new-role-in-england-setup-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341014\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Liverpool U21s coach takes up new role in England setup – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having left Liverpool in the summer after 12 years, former U21s head coach Barry Lewtas has now taken up a new role as part of the England setup.<\/b><\/p>\n

Lewtas departed the club at the end of last season having served as U21s head coach for five years, previously holding roles in the lower age groups.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old explained upon his exit in June that \u201cthe time is right for a new adventure<\/a>,\u201d and his next role has now been confirmed.<\/p>\n

He will act as head coach of England U16s, initially on an interim basis through December, while also serving as one of Ben Futcher\u2019s assistants with the England U20s.<\/p>\n

A number of Liverpool players could be part of his U16s squad, including the likes of Erik Farkas, Josh Abe, Vincent Joseph and Shadrach Ekiugbo.<\/p>\n

\"LIVERPOOL,<\/p>\n

Trey Nyoni<\/a> and James McConnell<\/a> were both among the latest U20s call-ups, while Amara Nallo and Callum Scanlon have recent experience too.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen if Lewtas\u2019 work within the England youth setup will then continue beyond this year, though he could feasibly have his sights set on senior management.<\/p>\n

That was the case with his predecessors in the U21s job at Liverpool, with both Michael Beale and Neil Critchley<\/a> moving into first-team positions.<\/p>\n

\"ROME,<\/p>\n

Lewtas has been replaced by former Wales manager Rob Page, who will lead the young Reds into their first league game of the season against Leicester<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n

There have been more changes in the academy staff at the AXA Training Centre too, with the departure of U18s head coach Marc Bridge-Wilkinson to be replaced by former Man United<\/a> youth coach Simon Wiles.<\/p>\n

Wiles will be assisted by Anthony Ryan, who has been promoted from his previous position as U15s head coach. The U18s kick off their campaign against Stoke on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having left Liverpool in the summer after 12 years, former U21s head coach Barry Lewtas has now taken…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,763,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-341014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool-fc","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115021217325866656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}