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unusual facts about Director of Football


Rémi Garde

Garde had been linked to a return to his former club in the new Director of football position at Arsenal, a role created to replace that of the recently departed Vice-Chairman David Dein.


George Burley

However, things were not as happy as they seemed on the surface with Burley's relationship with director of football Murdo Mackay and the club's board (who sold star player Tom Huddlestone without informing Burley) being very strained.

Giuseppe Marotta

In May 2010, Giuseppe Marotta was officially brought to Juventus F.C. by newly elected club president Andrea Agnelli, taking over for Alessio Secco as the club's Director General.

Jonathan Aspas

With the new technical staff of R.E. MouscronMiroslav Đukić (coach) and Amedeo Carboni (technical director) – playing a major part in his signing, Aspas moved to the Belgian League for the 2009–10 campaign.

Önder Özen

President of Beşiktaş JK, Fikret Orman made a press conference on 22 May 2013, to announce that Zeki Önder Özen is the new Director of football of the club.

Petr Kašpar

Petr "Kafé" Kašpar (born 26 June 1960 in Kolín) is a retired Czech football defender and currently executive currently serving as Director General of Slovak football club Slovan Bratislava.

Ståle Solbakken

On 14 May 2011 it was announced that Solbakken would take over as manager of 1. FC Köln of the German Bundesliga from sporting director Volker Finke, who acted as interim manager after Frank Schaefer quit during the season.

Vasil Shkurti

Born in Chania, Greece, Shkurti played youth football for four clubs, including AFC Ajax, Olympiakos F.C. and S.S. Lazio, arriving at the latter in January 2010 as compatriot Igli Tare acted as the team's director of football.


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1997–98 Fulham F.C. season

Ray Wilkins and Kevin Keegan were appointed as head coach and director of football respectively.

2004–05 Derby County F.C. season

Behind the scenes, circumstances were deteriorating, and Burley left his position, citing interference from football agent turned Director of Football Murdo Mackay, and the sale of Huddlestone, to Tottenham Hotspur, against his wishes.

2009–10 Grimsby Town F.C. season

Notts County's season mostly made the headlines for all the wrong reasons, as they were involved in an abortive high-spending takeover by a consortium who bought in Sven-Göran Eriksson as Director of Football, and got through four managers during the course of the season.

2010 IBSA World Blind Football Championship

The draw for the 2010 World Blind Football Championship was held on Monday 12 April 2010 at Wembley Stadium in London and overseen by Sir Trevor Brooking, the Football Association's Director of Football Development, and George Cohen, who was part of England's winning team at the 1966 World Cup.

2012 Gold Coast Titans season

David May, the former CMO of iSelect was named the new CEO of the Titans replacing Michael Searle who stood down as managing director to become executive director of football.

Auckland Lions

The New Zealand Kiwis coach at the time, Brian McClennan, served as Director of Football for the first few weeks of the season before stepping down to concentrate on the National side.

Charlie Batch

The move to initially sign Batch was not a surprise, given that Batch was from Pittsburgh and the Steelers' current Director of Football Operations Kevin Colbert initially drafted Batch in Detroit.

Comolli

Damien Comolli (born 1972), former football coach, scout and Director of Football

Francis Awaritefe

On 21 June 2011, Awaritefe was signed by Melbourne Victory as their new Director of Football on a two-year deal, replacing Gary Cole, with Mehmet Durakovic signed as the club's new manager on the same day.

Ian McParland

McParland enjoyed a two-year spell in charge and, despite the appointment of Sven-Göran Eriksson as Director of Football, the club decided to retain his services.

Jeremy Keith

Former finance director Andrew Mackenzie and former director of football Murdo Mackay were also charged with similar offences.

Kenny Swain

Between 2002 and 2004, Swain was Director of Football at Thomas Telford School.

Kulmoris Joiner

Previously, he was the Director of Football Operations for the Grambling State Tigers located in Grambling, Louisiana and he held that position for three seasons, from 2005 until 2007.

Marcos Tavares

At time he spent on Cyprus, he met Nilton Fernandes, who introduced him to Zlatko Zahovič, the director of football at the Slovenian football team Maribor.

Mark Goldberg

His first move was to change the manager, with the long-serving Steve Coppell moved to Director of Football and Italy international Attilio Lombardo and the soon-to-retire Tomas Brolin taking over as player-managers.

Nazri Nasir

He served as the Director of Football at Tampines Rovers, and currently is the assistant head coach for the LionsXII team, appointed on 16 December 2013 to assist his former teammate in Singapore and the current LionsXII head coach Fandi Ahmad.

Neal Dahlen

Ted Sundquist replaced him in early 2002, and Dahlen became the team's director of football administration until he retired the following year.

Nenad Sakić

After finishing out his playing career he became the director of football at FK Napredak Kruševac.

Notts County Supporters Trust

In 2009, Members of the Trust voted to accept a takeover bid for Munto Finance, with Mr Peter Trembling taking over as Chairman, the group eventually saw Sven-Göran Eriksson and Sol Campbell come in as Director of Football and player respectively.

Obina

Kléber Leite, Flamengo's Director of Football, once referred to him as being "culturally naive."

Seton-La Salle Catholic High School

Tom Donahoe, former GM and president of the Buffalo Bills, and former director of football operations of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Steve Bleasdale

After resigning, Bleasdale tried to regain his job by withdrawing his resignation but Director Of Football Barry Fry refused to have him back at Peterborough.