Bookings information:

0845 271 1965 (UK Only)

International: 0044 845 271 1965

E Mail: General Enquiries  info@uk-footballacademy.com

Management Team

Paul Grey: Academy General Manager

Craig Mander: Academy Manager (Spain) Player Recruitment

Administration

Lorraine Johns: Marketing-Promotions Manager

E mail: lorrainej.business@uk-footballacademy.com

Support Staff

Mike Hughes: Youth Academy Manager

Vinny Samways: Football Advisor/Consultant

Simon Tucker: Fitness and Conditioning Manager

Angela Croft: Sports Physio

Ashley Worthy: Academy/Trials Co-ordinator

Pia Bogart: Northern European Business Development Manager

Stuart Grey: Business Advisor

Matt Turnby: Head of Security

Dean Lowcroft: Security Advisor

Stephen Rees: Settlement and Immigration Solicitor

Stephen Knight: Legal Advisor

Tom Barryfield: Player Insurance Advisor

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Coach Profiles

Craig Mander has over 11 years experience of youth and academy football. An ex youth player in the UK with Stevenage Borough, Craig became an academy coach for Stevenage during the late 90′s and has worked with many professional clubs to set up community coaching programmes, as a scout and talent spotter, worked in Centre of Excellences and run various soccer camps during school holidays. Commercially has worked with Nike and Lucozade. Craig has very quickly established links with professional clubs around the footballing world, and continues to scout many regions for potential professional footballers. In 2009 Pelayo Gomez became the first Marbella player to achieve this by signing for London Club Brentford in league 1, who was represented by Craig personally.

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Vinnie Samways Spurs legend, with also a fantastic career in Spain and a wealth of football experience. We are delighted to have him. 

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Demir Vavan Coaching for 5 years now, Demir is a UEFA B Licensed Coach; he has worked for Coventry City Football Club as part of their Community and Football Development. His last post was working for AFC Bournemouth at their Centre of Excellence which involved working as a mental skills coach with the Youth team, reserve team players and first year professionals applying sports Psychology. We are delighted to have him on board with us.

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Mike Hughes ex Leicester City Professional, mike is extremely popular with everyone he meets and coaches, his tactical knowledge is second to none and he is a great asset to us. Mike is also our player welfare officer.

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Peter Jones Ex Fulham Community Coach, Peter’s role is a very important one, as he co-ordinates the younger players and teams, but also works on sponsorship and advertising opportunities. Peter is well organised and very enthusiastic and has a wealth of experience running many community schemes for Fulham in many of the London Boroughs.

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Nathan Turnball, a Watford man, has recently completed his coaching certificate, and is a well respected member of the team. We have high hopes that Nathan will take further coaching qualifications and go on to be one of the Academies top coaches in the very near future. He certainly has a lot of potential, and is one of the best coaches at getting the most out of his players and maximising their potential.