Roy Hodgson named England manager with four year contract

 　　LONDON, May 1 (Xinhua) -- The Football Association just announced the appointment of Roy Hodgson as England Manager and will declare it shortly in a press conference at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday afternoon.

　　The 64-year-old signs a four year contract.

　　He is currently¹ the Premier² League side West Bromwich manager and has agreed a four year deal to become the full-time³ manager of the Three Lions.

　　The FA says Hodgson is the only English manager currently working in the top flight to have won the League Managers' Association manager of the year award. And he also has vast experience of international and European football.

　　Hodgson, who once coached the national teams of Switzerland, Finland and the United Arab Emirates, met with FA officials at Wembley on Monday.

　　Having taken Switzerland to the FIFA World Cup in 1994 - their first finals competition for 28 years - Hodgson also achieved a FIFA ranking of third in the world as well as successfully qualifying⁵ the team for Euro 96.

　　He also has vast coaching experiences in clubs. His former clubs include Inter⁴ Milan, Blackburn Rovers, Grasshoppers⁶, FC Copenhagen, Fulham and Liverpool. He has also managed in Norway and Sweden. In addition, he has been a regular member of FIFA and UEFA's technical study groups at tournaments.

　　The new Manager will take charge of England at Wembley for the first time, when England take on Belgium on Saturday 2 June at Wembley Stadium.

　　After that, the big contest for the new manager and the Three Lions will be June's European Championship.

1 currently   

adv.通常地，普遍地，当前

参考例句：

• Currently it is not possible to reconcile this conflicting evidence.当前还未有可能去解释这一矛盾的例证。
• Our contracts are currently under review.我们的合同正在复查。

2 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。

3 full-time   

adj.满工作日的或工作周的，全时间的

参考例句：

• A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
• I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作，我不知道她是如何对付的。

4 inter   

v.埋葬

参考例句：

• They interred their dear comrade in the arms.他们埋葬了他们亲爱的战友。
• The man who died in that accident has been interred.在那次事故中死的那个人已经被埋葬了。

5 qualifying   

使具有资格的

参考例句：

• players who fail at the pre-qualifying stage 在预选赛中淘汰掉的选手
• A doctoral candidate is required to pass a qualifying examination. 考博士需通过一个资格考试。

6 grasshoppers   

n.蚱蜢( grasshopper的名词复数 )；蝗虫；蚂蚱；（孩子）矮小的

参考例句：

• Grasshoppers die in fall. 蚱蜢在秋天死去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• There are usually a lot of grasshoppers in the rice fields. 稻田里通常有许多蚱蜢。 来自辞典例句