- Jim Hicks resigned from his function as head of teaching on the PFA final month
- Hicks has been head-hunted by Chelsea to turn into head of coach growth
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Chelsea have made one other appointment to their back-room staff by recruiting Jim Hicks from the PFA because the membership’s head of coach growth.
Mail Sport revealed final month that Hicks had resigned from the PFA, and it’s understood that the 63-year-old will be part of Chelsea subsequent month.
Hicks has been head-hunted to fill a brand new function at Chelsea, by which he’ll work with coaches from below 15 to below 21 stage within the boys Academy and in all age teams within the ladies’s set-up.
The former Fulham centre-back, who additionally performed for Exeter and Oxford earlier than transferring into teaching and neighborhood work, is nicely revered all through the sport after spending 18 years as head of teaching on the PFA.
Hicks’ transfer to Chelsea will see him return to membership soccer having beforehand spent 15 years at Millwall. In south London Hicks mixed neighborhood work with managing Millwall Lionesses, whom he led to a outstanding Women’s Premier League and FA Cup double in 1997.
Former PFA official Jim Hicks has been appointed as Chelsea’s head of coach growth
Hicks appointment comes after the revelation Sam Jewell will swap Brighton for Chelsea
Hicks and Jewell are among the many newest backroom appointments below proprietor Todd Boehly
Hicks’ appointment follows the revelation earlier this week that Chelsea have poached Brighton’s head of recruitment Sam Jewell to take up a brand new place operating their multi-club operations and partnerships.
Chelsea paid £65million for a close to 100 per cent stake in French membership Strasbourg final yr and are searching for to put money into different golf equipment in Portugal, Belgium and South America.
Jewell has been positioned on gardening go away by Brighton after simply 16 months as head of recruitment, a place he obtained after his predecessor Paul Winstanley additionally left the membership for Chelsea.
Jewell, who’s the son of former Bradford and Wigan supervisor Paul, will turn into the eleventh Brighton workers member to go away for Cheslea within the final two years after Winstanley, supervisor Graham Potter, coaches Billy Reid, Bruno Saltor, Bjorn Hamberg, Ben Roberts and Kyle Macaulay, and gamers Robert Sanchez, Marc Cucurella and Moises Caicedo.
Chelsea have had vital modifications to membership personnel below Boehly and Clearlake Capital
In addition to Jewell, Chelsea additionally lately recruited Josh Marsh from Swansea because the membership’s new loans supervisor.
Chelsea’s new homeowners Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital have made large modifications to the membership’s personnel during the last two years and are persevering with so as to add to their soccer workers.
Despite a combined report within the switch market Cheslea are nonetheless backing the judgement of their co-sporting administrators, Winstanley and Paul Stewart, to make the important thing hires.
Chelsea declined to remark.