NEWS: After a rigorous recruitment and selection process Canterbury United are pleased to announce that Sean Devine has accepted the role of Canterbury United Head Coach - ASB Premiership.
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After a rigorous recruitment and selection process Canterbury United are pleased to announce that Sean Devine has accepted the role of Canterbury United Head Coach - ASB Premiership.
After a rigorous recruitment and selection process
Canterbury United are pleased to announce that Sean Devine has accepted the role
of Canterbury United Head Coach - ASB Premiership.
Devine has had an extensive professional playing and coaching career. He played professionally for 15 years with lengthy stints
at Wycombe Wanderers and Exeter City. After emigrating to New Zealand and a two year period at the NZ Knights, Sean started his coaching career at respectively Metro FC and Manurewa FC in the highly rated Northern Premier League. Recently
Sean was one of Keith Braithwaite's Assistant Coaches for Canterbury United in the ASB Premiership season 2013-2014.
Sean says"I'm delighted to be appointed to this role, it will be a challenging position but I am looking forward to build further on what Keith has built up over the last 5 years.”
"My first priority will be to appoint a coaching and management team toallow us all to commence the planning and preparation for the upcoming ASB Premiership season 2014-2015. From there we will work on retaining many players from last years squad plus look for additional players where required."
He says "One area we really want to tap into is the experience of the senior players whereby we form a Leadership playing group
who will be able to assist the Coaching team in many ways. Another area I want to observe and learn from is other elite sports in Christchurch such as the Canterbury Cavaliers Hockey team and Canterbury Rugby ITM set up. I believe we can become better if open up to learn from others”
Roger Georgieff Canterbury United Board Chairman says "We're delighted to appoint someone with Sean's background to the position
of Head Coach and we hope to add a strong and vibrant coaching and management team, including a new position of Strength and Conditioning Trainer, to the side. Whilst we were disappointed to lose an outstanding coach in Keith Braithwaite we are really confident that Sean's recruitmentwill place Canterbury United in a formidable position to challenge for ASB Premiership success.
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