The Appointment of Stephen Gerrard as Technical Director of Al-Ittifaq: A New Chapter in His Coaching Career

2023-07-06 01:00:00

Arafa Al-Dabaa wrote Thursday, 06 July 2023 04:00 AM

The English coach, Stephen Gerrard, is going through a new experience in his coaching career, following it was announced that he would be appointed as technical director of the Saudi Al-Ittifaq team during the current summer Mercato.

The Saudi Al-Ettifaq Club announced, on Monday evening, its official contract with the Englishman Stephen Gerrard to take over the training of “Al-Nawakhada”, starting next season.

Al-Ettifaq Club published a video through its official account on the social networking site “Twitter”, “Here is the source of legends. We are pleased to announce the contract with Gerrard as coach of Al-Ettifaq Club.”

Thus, Gerrard returns to the technical leadership seat 8 months following he was dismissed from coaching the English Aston Villa team, following the team’s results declined and it entered the downward spiral.

Gerrard previously trained the Scottish Rangers team, starting from the 2019-2020 season, when he led the team to return to the podiums by winning the Scottish League title in its second season and in a distinctive way, as the team ended the season undefeated.

In November of 2021, he took over the training of Aston Villa, and finished his first season in thirteenth place, but the start of his second season with the Villans was not good, as the team achieved only one victory in its first 12 matches, which precipitated the club’s decision to dismiss him in October. from last year.

Gerrard numbers with the Scottish Rangers

His duration with the team is 1258 days

192 matches

124 wins

41 balance

27 defeat

Use 65 different players

Gerrard numbers with Aston Villa

His duration with the team is 343 days

40 matches

He achieved 13 wins

8 draws

19 defeat

Use 33 different players

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