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unusual facts about Assistant Manager



Jay Lovett

In March 2011, Lovett left Tooting & Mitcham in order to take up a position as assistant manager with Vietnamese V-League side Đồng Tâm Long An, working as assistant to Simon McMenemy.

Kevin Summerfield

He became the club's assistant manager after the arrival of Paul Sturrock and led the club to the brink of promotion to the Football League Championship before joining Sturrock at Southampton.

Peter Wilding

In June 2010, Pete re-joined the club as Assistant Manager of the YouthTeam - Much to the delight of the Salop faithful, whom still very much idolise him, in a "cult hero" sort of way.


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2009–10 RNK Split season

At the end of the season, manager Tonći Bašić left the club after he was offered the place of assistant manager when the board brought Ivan Katalinić to replace him.

Alex Lawler

He currently plays non-league football for Chesham United who are managed by The Match 's celebrity team's assistant manager Luther Blissett.

Ben Joyce

He came along with assistant manager David Byrne, eventually making his first team debut for Swindon Town on 19 April 2008, scoring a goal in the last minute of a 6–0 win.

Benjamin Burns

Upon the merger with the Bank of New Zealand, he became assistant-manager of the Christchurch branch.

Carlos Enrique

Enrique works as a football coach and has held assistant manager positions in teams such as Nueva Chicago, Almagro and Chacarita Juniors in Argentina and Aurora in Bolivia.

Cătălin Necula

He was the assistant manager but became manager after previous coach Cosmin Olăroiu got fired.

When Cosmin Olăroiu took over at Steaua in the winter of 2005 he asked Necula to join him as assistant manager.

CD Jávea

The 2009/10 season began with coach Kenny Brown leaving the club after just three games to take up an assistant manager position at Grays Athletic in the UK, hoping to help former team-mate Julian Dicks guide the club away from the Conference National relegation zone.

Chris Brindley

After assisting Holleran to the end of the 2007-08 season, Brindley made the step up to Conference North level once again, joining old foes Stafford Rangers once again as assistant manager to new Rangers boss - and former Wolves team-mate - Steve Bull.

Daniel Amokachi

Daniel Owefin Amokachi (born 30 December 1972 in Kaduna) is a Nigerian former professional footballer of Idoma descent and assistant manager of the Nigeria national football team.

Daniel Gonçalves

In the final of 2013, Daniel was invited by José Dominguez to be part of his new technical team, as assistant manager, at Real Cartagena from Colombian League.

Duncan Keith

His family moved to Fort Frances, Ontario, in 1985 after his father was transferred from Winnipeg for an assistant manager position at a Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) branch.

Francisco Arcos

Francisco "Paco" Arcos Arcos (born 16 December 1974 in Ibi, Province of Alicante) is a Spanish football manager currently in charge of the physical trainer and assistant manager of Alicante CF, and coordinator of youth football at club.

After refusing several offers from European teams, he signed for Alicante CF as a physical trainer and assistant manager, in addition to being the coordinator of the youth football at club.

Gerry Luczka

Luczka gained experience as the first-team coach of Leigh RMI and as assistant manager at Stalybridge Celtic and Ashton United.

Hinckley United F.C.

For the 2010–11 season Platnauer, took more of a coaching role, whilst first team coach Stuart Storer took over the role of assistant manager.

Itzhak Shum

In the 2009–10 season, Shum returned as Beitar Jerusalem manager, alongside the new assistant manager David Amsalem.

Ivan Aboimov

From 1962–1963, Aboimov was the executive secretary of the Komsomol branch of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic and assistant manager of the Department of Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Komsomol in Latvia.

Jef Last

These principles, he could not practice as an assistant manager of the Enka in Ede, and eventually he resigned.

Jesper Blomqvist

He left Enköping after the season and later signed a contract with newly relegated Hammarby IF as assistant manager to Michael Borgqvist.

Jim Fryatt

After retiring as a player, Fryatt served briefly as the assistant manager of the original Las Vegas Quicksilvers before settling permanently in Las Vegas where he worked at casinos before becoming a mechanic for a golf course.

Jiří Ryba

Following his career in athletics, Ryba became a fitness coach in the Gambrinus liga before moving to 1. FK Příbram as assistant manager.

Joe Cotton

Joe worked as an assistant manager at Sounds CD store in Johnsonville, Wellington before appearing on Popstars and has subsequently found work on the C4 television station and in radio, first with The Edge and most recently with More FM.

John Askey

John stayed on as assistant manager and, with the arrival of Paul Ince moved to Youth Team manager where he was influential in the arrivals of Shaun Brisley, Matthew Flynn, Kristian Dennis and John Rooney into the first-team squad.

Jurijs Ševļakovs

His first squad was the reserves of FC Skonto, later he became assistant manager of Latvia U21 under Jurijs Andrejevs, after Andrejevs was elected Latvia national football team manager, Ševļakovs succeeded him as manager of U21.

Kasper Køhlert

Køhlert's father is Morten Køhlert who currently works as an assistant manager at Varde If and his brother Nicolaj Køhlert who is younger, have played for Liverpool, Glasgow Rangers and is now playing for the Danish side Silkeborg IF.

Keith Waldon

Keith Waldon is a physiotherapist and sports coach, who was assistant manager of Portsmouth F.C. under Terry Fenwick, and who acted as caretaker manager of the club in January 1998 after Fenwick's dismissal.

Kevin Wilkin

Later spells followed with Rushden and Diamonds, Nuneaton Borough, Cambridge City and Grantham Town, before returning to Nuneaton as player/assistant manager to Roger Ashby in 2004.

Lawrence Roehm

In 1929, the company was taken over by Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Roehm at that point became employed by Jones & Laughlin as the assistant manager and, starting in 1938, manager of the company's Detroit warehouse operation.

Leo Mintz

In 1938, while working as assistant manager at an army surplus store, he decided to set up a record shop, Record Rendezvous, on Prospect Avenue in Cleveland, on the edge of the city's black community.

Lil Fuccillo

A week later he was promoted to assistant manager, but, with the club at the foot of the league, Ricky Hill was sacked within weeks so Fuccillo then stepped up into the managerial seat.

Manmadhudu

Abhiram's uncle (Tanikella Bharani), who is the chairman of the ad agency, appoints Harika (Sonali Bendre) as the assistant manager.

Paul Tosh

Tosh was player-assistant manager during the reign of former Forfar manager George Shaw.

Peter Shreeves

From 1993 to 1996 he was assistant manager at Chelsea before Glenn Hoddle became England manager and Ruud Gullit did not include Shreeves in his management team.

Rado Vidošić

Rado Vidošić (born in SFR Yugoslavia) is an Australian football (soccer) manager, who is the assistant manager of A-League club Sydney FC.

Rizwan Manji

Although he lost the part to Parvesh Cheena, the producers decided to cast him as the scheming assistant manager Rajiv.

Sabrina Harman

Harman worked for a time as an assistant manager at Papa John's Pizza in Alexandria, Virginia, before her company was activated for duty in Iraq in February 2003, and was deployed to Fort Lee, Virginia for additional training; however, this was in combat support, not I/R (military jargon for "internment and resettlement.").

Shaun Cunnington

He was manager of Halesowen Town replacing Tony Thorpe in January 2011, bringing long-time friend Paul Tomlinson to the club as Assistant Manager.

South African Lipizzaners

After two years as an assistant manager of the Polish National Stud in Bogusławice, he finished cavalry school and went into the army.

Steve Kean

In June 2008, it was reported that Kean was in talks with Chelsea to become assistant manager to Luiz Felipe Scolari.

Stuart Watkiss

On 28 January 2013 Watkiss was appointed assistant manager of Stockport County, working under Darije Kalezić.

Submarine snorkel

An early submarine snorkel was designed by James Richardson, an Assistant Manager at Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock, Scotland as early as 1916, during World War I.

Tom Pope

This achievement came despite criticism from assistant manager Neil Baker that Pope lacked consistency on the pitch and professionalism off the pitch.

Vera Pauw

In September 1998 Pauw was appointed coach and technical director of the Scotland women's national football team, while husband Bert van Lingen was working as assistant manager of Rangers in Glasgow.

Vital Borkelmans

In July 2012, Borkelmans was revealed as assistant manager to Marc Wilmots for the Belgium national football team.

Wolfgang Pikal

Wolfgang Pikal (born 1967 in Vienna, Austria) is the assistant manager to Alfred Riedl of the Indonesia national football team.

Željko Petrović

Željko Petrović (Жељко Петровић) (born 13 November 1965 in Nikšić, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia) is a retired Montenegrin footballer who previously worked as an assistant manager with FC Anzhi Makhachkala.