Brent is the England U23 Head Coach and he also assists Hope Powell with the Senior Team.
He originally trained as a PE teacher at Culham College in Oxford, in the mid-1970s after coaching a local boys club in Fulham, while playing at right-back for Kingstonian and Feltham in the Isthmian League.
Brent has coached at Chapman University College (California), Brentford, Millwall, Watford and Fulham. He lectured in Sports and Exercise Science at Southbank University and Southwark College, where he started the first female college football academy in 1998 (with which Arsenal’s Katie Chapman was once a player).
He holds the UEFA ‘A’ Licence, M. Sc. in Sports Coaching and an FA Coach Education Diploma.