Her First Order Of Business Is To Fire The Team'S Current Manager And Replace Him With An Idealistic All-American Football Coach Theodore "Ted" Lasso (Jason Sudeikis). Ted And His Friend, Assistant Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt) Cross The Pond To Take Up The Management Of The Team's "Long, Albeit Modest" History. Ted Gets To Know The Team - Including Team Captain Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein), Top Scorer Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster) And More - But Finds His First Friend In The Locker Room Assistant Nathan (Nick Mohammed). Half A World Away From His Wife And Child, Ted Could Use A Friend. But He Presses On, Nevertheless. Richmond Is About To Change The Way They'Re Doing Things And From Now On, That Was Is The Lasso Way.