West Ham Women: Rayhan Noor arrives at the U18 age group as Nadia Khan enters the Pakistani record book and Ruudy Yusuf prepares to return | Football news
Rayhan Noor has taken over as assistant coach of the West Ham Women’s Under-18 team and is expected to start for Sunday’s trip to meet London City Lionesses Development side.
East Londoner Noor is part of a highly regarded group of aspiring coaches from diverse ethnic backgrounds working at West Ham United – with coach of South Asian heritage Mo Ali also making strides. made great progress while working at the club’s famous ‘Academy Football’ under the guidance of academy director Ricky Martin and assistant Kalam Mooniaruck.
Former club forward Carlton Cole also works as a coach at the academy, while longtime UEFA A License coach Stephen Opoka is in charge of the women’s U21 team and is the only female Super League academy director of multi-national origin. ethnic form.
Anglo-Bangladesh Noor is expected to have the opportunity this season to work alongside Opoka and the Under-21 team, who entered West Ham’s WSL first team.
Stephen Opoka is West Ham’s WSL academy director
The 23-year-old, from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, is a UEFA B License candidate and holds an FA Level 2 qualification.
Noor spent a season with the Under-14s under Nick Crickmar and Taylor Gillings, and was asked to stay the following year to work with Dominic Edwards and the Under-16s. He reunited with Gillings, the under-18 team manager.
Yusuf is set to return the manager
Ruudy Yusuf will join Hounslow Women after leaving Harlow Town Ladies
Hounslow Women is set to appoint Ruudy Yusuf in a move that will see the East Londoner become the only British South Asian heritage manager in the top four categories of the men’s or women’s game.
Yusuf – who previously worked under Jamie O’Hara and was recently appointed West Ham Women’s Director Paul Konchesky in the Town of Billericay – parting company with the Town of Harlow earlier this month after a year in charge of the Essex club.
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Former Billericay Town boss Jamie O’Hara said he was really impressed by his former first team coach Ruudy Yusuf
Sky Sports News understands that former Harlow Town Ladies Junior coaches Ndigwe Kings and Ethan Barr will be joining Yusuf at Hounslow.
Hounslow will be absent from Division 1 South East’s clash at Wymondham Town this weekend.
Nadia Khan entered the Pakistani record book
Doncaster Rovers Belles star Nadia Khan returns home a record-breaking
Doncaster Rovers Belles star Nadia Khan has made her name in folklore after becoming the first Pakistani female player to score four goals in an international match.
Khan scored all four goals in the second half, before scoring with an injury-time assist in Pakistan’s 7-0 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) win over the Maldives in Nepal.
Sky Sports News revealed late last month that Khan’s paperwork had been completed, allowing the Rovers Belles attacker to fly to Kathmandu to link up with her new Pakistani teammates, who have returned to international action after eight years.
Khan, who qualified to play for Pakistan through her parents’ legacy, became one of the first Anglo-Pakistani women to ever play for the national team when she made her SAFF debut in the opening match against India. Degree.
Khan was in the spotlight when she scored at 45 yards – labeled as an early contender for the FIFA Puskas best goal award – for the Rovers Belles to meet Solihull Moors on the last day of last season.
The 21-year-old is a brilliant former Leeds United Girls’ Center player who has played for Rovers Belles since 2018.
Football unites behind the local Blackburn team
Blackburn Rovers shook hands with Sky Sports and Sporting Equals partnership and Watford on Tuesday night to side with local side Euro Garages FC.
Euro Garages FC players were targeted by members of the opposition during a Blackburn local league match last month, with disturbing images from the match spotted on CCTV and going viral. widely on social media.
Sky Sports News’ British South Asian football manager Dev Trehan contacted Blackburn Rovers director of development and integration Yasir Sufi following the incident to express concerns, with the pair determined to try and deliver some support for Euro Garages FC after the injury period.
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Blackburn Rovers Director of Development and Integration Yasir Sufi and Head of Operations Lynsey Talbot react to the club’s EFL Diversity award last year
They decided to schedule a meeting at Ewood Park for their visit to Watford on Tuesday, giving everyone the opportunity to meet face-to-face, share experiences and learn from each other.
Watford’s head of equality, diversity and inclusion, Dave Messenger and Alan Lau – founders of the ESEA Hornets fan group – also backed them in the 2-0 home win.
A Euro Garages FC coach said: “It was a really good experience and a great example of solidarity. It was a great gesture, especially when nobody had to do anything. What to realize what happened and give us the opportunity to come together like this great.”
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Alan Lau and Lawrence Lok are encouraging more Southeast Asians and Southeast Asians to participate in soccer coaching to make the game more diverse
Blackburn’s Sufi said: “It’s been an extraordinary day, which has seen us all come together to make a difference. Hopefully this can be the start of more positive things to come. When we do. We work together, we win together.”
ESEA Hornets founder Lau added: “I feel it’s important that I’m here to represent Watford and stand in solidarity with the Asians in the game.”
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