Source: Team_Talk
Brown warns Levein of 'massive' task
Dundee United manager Levein has admitted boredom may be a factor as he ponders his future following the Scottish Football Association's approach to the Tannadice club.[LNB]Reports claim Levein will seek a more wide-ranging role if he takes the job, although he has refused to discuss what issues he will raise in talks with the SFA office-bearers.[LNB]Levein is expected to hold talks with the SFA in the coming days although it is understood no date has been set after the former Hearts player was hit by a bug.[LNB]But Brown, who was also SFA technical director, believes he will discover that there is plenty to keep him occupied.[LNB]"I think he's right to want to have an overall remit in charge of the football side of things," Brown told BBC Scotland.[LNB]"But coach education is different from managing a team and player development is slightly different for the youngsters, although he's good at employing to do that job for him.[LNB]"I think that, with the number of teams that Scotland will have - under-21s, 19s, 17s, 16s and ladies teams - I think it's a full-time job being in charge first of all of the national team.[LNB]"Obviously he'll want to go to every youth international. He's got an excellent youth coach in Ros Mathie and superb under-21 coach in Billy Stark.[LNB]"So he's got great staff there looking at the younger teams but I think his job will be to look at the progress of these young lads, how quickly he can get them into the national team.[LNB]"Surely that's enough without being involved in coach education and player development, particularly the courses for the very young ones.[LNB]"Okay, he can relate to the people in charge of that and speak with them and encourage and show up at events.[LNB]"But it's far too big a job, there's women's football, there's Futsal, there is disabled football, all that on top of getting the national team to succeed."[LNB]Brown, the last man to lead Scotland to a major finals, the 1998 World Cup, added: "I would say Craig's biggest impact in Scottish football would be to qualify the national team for the next major tournament.[LNB]"Then the kids will want to play football, buy the replica strips and the whole game in the country would be lifted.[LNB]"That would be the biggest contribution the Scotland manager can make."[LNB]Levein revealed at the weekend that he would use the meeting to determine his exact job description.[LNB]"If it's just seven games, six games, five games a season, I don't know what I'm going to do for the rest of the time - if I get offered the job," he said.[LNB]And Tannadice chairman Stephen Thompson has warned SFA chief executive Gordon Smith that he may feel like the tables are turned during the interview.[LNB]"Looking back to when we appointed Craig, it probably was a case of him interviewing us and he had a lot of questions to ask," Thompson told the Evening Telegraph.[LNB]"It will be the same with the SFA because he is a person who wants to know things in exact detail."[LNB][LNB]
