Elite coaches from around the world have aided Gareth Southgate by skilfully shaping the destiny of his players
The resurrection of Raheem Sterling began with a phone call. As England relaxed at their Euro 2016 base in Chantilly, Sterling was perhaps in the biggest slump of his career: out of form, spitefully singled out by the media and fans, an increasingly marginal presence at Manchester City.
Yet if many were content to write Sterling off, his new manager Pep Guardiola was not. And so Guardiola rang his despondent winger, assured him of his place, and began devising a plan.
