Barry’s first coaching job after retiring as a player was as assistant manager at Wigan, but after impressing Frank Lampard on the Uefa Pro Licence course, he became first-team coach at Chelsea in the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n
When Lampard was sacked in January 2021, Tuchel replaced him, retained Barry, and within months had won the Champions League.<\/a><\/p>\n During that time Barry had also spread his wings into international football – working as an assistant coach of the Republic of Ireland<\/a> before taking the same role under Roberto Martinez – first with Belgium,<\/a> then Portugal.<\/p>\n That has allowed him to coach at a World Cup and European Championship, while also working with global greats including Cristiano Ronaldo and Kevin de Bruyne.<\/p>\n Barry was reunited with Tuchel when the latter took him to Bayern Munich in 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n “It’s a relationship that has grown along the way,” said Barry. “In a working capacity – and then in a social way – we became closer and closer.<\/p>\n “We spend a lot of time together speaking, working, fighting, building teams – but he’s a person and a character I admire and I’m in awe of.”<\/p>\n Barry is the only English coach in Tuchel’s core support staff. He, along with Henrique Hilario, Nico Mayer and James Melbourne, has joined Tuchel in signing a new contract until 2028.<\/a><\/p>\n Known as an innovative and enthusiastic coach, Barry also specialises in set-pieces. A former midfielder, he wrote a dissertation as part of his Pro Licence for which he analysed 17,000 throw-ins.<\/p>\n