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In the 33 years since the Premier League was formed only eleven black coaches have been appointed as either a permanent or caretaker manager. Nuno Espirito Santo - currently in charge of West Ham United - told the 蜜芽传媒 it is a "privilege" and he is "honoured" to be the only black manager currently in charge of a Premier League team but rejects the idea that his position could be a burden.

Leon Mann MBE is a leading sports consultant, film-maker and founder of Football's Black List. An organisation which celebrates a wide array of influential Black individuals in the industry across many categories including coaching and management. He tells Lee James that more needs to be done when it comes to black and brown coaches being given the opportunity at first team level and points to the success of Bayern Munich's Vincent Kompany and Strasbourg's Liam Rosenior.

The former Democratic Republic of Congo captain, Gabriel Zakuani, played in all four professional divisions in England and at the end of his playing career set up a coaching scheme to help develop more black managers and coaches. Speaking from Nigeria, he agrees with Nuno - that the continent has many impressive coaches and that one day we could see an African in charge of a Premier League team. While Nuno represented Portugal at youth level, the former goalkeeper was born in Sao Tome and Principe, Africa's second-smallest country located off the coast of Gabon in the Gulf of Guinea.

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