From Selwyn United's Facebook page - posted late this afternoon.
Announcement: New Director of Football SUFC — Oct 12, 2018
We are excited to announce our new Director of Football is one of our own, Chris Brown.
Chris has been an integral part of Selwyn United for a number of years. In that time he has worked closely with Lee Padmore to develop our playing model, a first team capable of achieving and maintaining Mainland Premier League status and build the quality of our talent centre. The board had little hesitation in appointing Chris as our new Director of Football. He knows the club well, it's philosophy, its people and its aspirations. It is a natural fit.
The role of Director of Football now entirely focuses on our high-performance pathway. The role will work alongside a new Community / Football Development Officer who will oversee our participation pathway.
Brief BioChris has a wealth of experience when it comes to coaching football. Having completed his BSc (Hons) in Sports Coaching at Leeds Metropolitan University in 2010, he travelled to America where he coached a wide variety of youth players over the course of two summers. After returning from America, Chris was an academy coach at Histon FC and also head coach of their U16 academy side.
After a season at Histon Chris accepted a new full-time, high-performance coaching role at the Burnley academy in Perth, Australia. From Australia, Chris travelled to New Zealand where he continued his high-performance coaching role under the Burnley academy at Waimak United FC and Selwyn United FC (2014-2016). From 2017 onwards, Chris was offered a full time “Head of Talent” role at Selwyn United, where he has played an integral part in establishing an in-house talent centre and also helping achieve MPL promotion with the first team, in partnership with Lee Padmore.
Throughout 2018, Chris has helped retain the MPL status of the first team by ensuring the relegation battle was won, maintaining the quality of coaching throughout the talent centre and working towards achieving his OFC ‘B’ license all in the space of a year. Chris aspires to make a start on his OFC ‘A’ license in the near future while stepping up to the role of ‘Director of Football’ at Selwyn United.