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Finally, the team has a new coach - former team defender Gareth Southgate, who also announced the end of his career in the national team.
The 35-year-old footballer will replace Steve McClaren as head coach, who will take over the reins of the England national team after the World Cup.
"I enjoyed a great career in this team, and now it's time for the club to start a new chapter. This is a challenge that I am really looking forward to," Southgate said.
However, G. Southgate currently does not have the UEFA-issued professional coach license, so he will only be able to lead the club temporarily - for 12 weeks. The Englishman has already stated that he plans to handle these formalities in the near future.
The footballer, who represented the England national team 57 times, arrived at "Middlesbrough" in 2001 for 12.1 million euros. In 2004, G. Southgate became the first and so far the only captain of the team to win a trophy in the club's history - the English League Cup.
Perhaps the most memorable, in a negative sense, event of G. Southgate's career was a missed penalty kick from 11 meters in the semi-final of the 1996 European Championship, which led to the victory of the German national team over the English.
