The BBC reports today that The Israeli, who was the club’s director of football, will take charge alongside assistant Steve Clarke.
“The club is delighted in Avram we have an experienced man who can come in at a difficult time,” said a club statement. The statement comes after BBC Sport’s Garry Richardson revealed the former Israel coach would be handed the management reins at the Blues.
Avraham “Avram” Grant is an Israeli football coach. Once coach of both Maccabi Tel Aviv (twice, from 1991-1995 and less successfully from 1997-2000) and Maccabi Haifa (2000-2002), Grant was formerly the national team coach of Israel, taking the position in May 2002 when he replaced Dane Richard Møller Nielsen. Israel finished third in 2006 World Cup qualifying Group 4 behind winners France and runners-up Switzerland.
This meant that Israel marginally missed on qualification to the finals, despite being undefeated in the group - with four wins and six draws. He announced on 26 October 2005 that he would step down from the national team as his contract expires in June 2006. Subsequent to this he took up his new position as Technical Director at Portsmouth. A personal friend of Roman Abramovich, on 8 July 2007 he was appointed Director of Football at Chelsea. (From Wikipedia)
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Someone just posted a poll on pollsb.com: “Does Avram Grant deserve to coach Chelsea?” Click on my name to vote.
Grant is a back stabbing fool with no pedigree. He used his friendship with spoiled child Abramovich and now Chelsea have lost the best manager they have ever had. When Chelsea end the season with no silverwear around midtable hopefully the rest of the board will take a stand against such croneyism.
good luck grant!
no, i don’t think so.
i think no one like that mourinho over chelsea.
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The BBC reports today that The Israeli, who was the club’s director of football, will take charge alongside assistant Steve Clarke.
“The club is delighted in Avram we have an experienced man who can come in at a difficult time,” said a club stat…
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