Glentoran Football Club is delighted to announce that former Northern Ireland international player Paddy McCourt has joined the club as Assistant Manager.
As a player Paddy played 18 times for Northern Ireland and had a long playing career with Celtic, Brighton, Luton Town, Shamrock Rovers and two spells with his hometown club, Derry City. As a player he won 2 league titles and 2 Scottish Cups with Celtic. Paddy left Derry City earlier this years in which he held the positions of Head of Youth Development, Head of Academy and most recently Technical Director for the club. Paddy will have a key coaching role within Glentoran.
Manager Declan Devine said of this appointment: “I’m very happy and excited about this appointment. I’ve known and worked with Paddy for a long time and can guarantee Glentoran supporters that we’ve appointed a real asset for the club.
Paddy is a great football man with a wealth of knowledge and experience in a full-time environment. He is also incredibly well connected in football right across the UK and Ireland which means he’ll also be an asset to us in terms of recruiting widely. He’s a legend of Northern Irish football and also I would trust him with my life as a man and as a colleague.
With Paddy in place I now feel that with himself, Tim McCann, Elliott Morris and myself we have a coaching team with all the attributes and talents to take this club where it needs to be.”
Paddy spoke to www.glentoran.com “I’m very excited to be coming to Glentoran, by anyone’s standards a huge club in Irish football. I’ve worked with Declan a lot over the years and also I worked with Windy for a while at Glenavon so I know them well and they didn’t have to sell Glentoran too hard to me.
I know the level of support the club has through playing against them in the Setanta Cup and it’s a club I’ve always respected and I’m really looking forward to playing my part in bringing success back to the club. I know the level of ambition the owner has for the club and I’m confident that together we can get Glentoran into a place where the supporters deserve to be.”
Welcome Paddy.
Paddy will give an interview to GlensTV sometime during the close season,