Avram Grant

Avram Grant
Personnel
Surname	Avraham Grant
birthday	May 6, 1955
place of birth	Petach Tikwa ,  Israel
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1972-1986	Hapoel Petach Tikwa (youth coach)
1986-1991	Hapoel Petach Tikwa
1991-1995	Maccabi Tel Aviv
1995-1996	Hapoel Haifa
1996-2000	Maccabi Tel Aviv
2000-2002	Maccabi Haifa
2002-2006	Israel
2007-2008	Chelsea FC
2009-2010	Portsmouth FC
2010-2011	West Ham United
2012	Partizan Belgrade
2014-2017	Ghana
2018–	NorthEast United FC (interim)

Avraham "Avram" Grant ( Hebrew אַבְרָהָם גְרַנט; * May 6, 1955 in Petach Tikwa ) is an Israeli football coach and manager.

Career

Grant began his coaching career in 1972 as a youth coach at his home club Hapoel Petach Tikwa until he was appointed to the senior team in 1986. His first success was winning the Toto Cup , which he won in his first year as a professional coach with the team. In 1990 he repeated this success. From 1991 coaching stations followed at renowned Israeli clubs such as Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa . In 2002 he was appointed coach of the Israeli national soccer team and replaced the Danish Richard Møller Nielsen . In qualifying for the 2006 World Cup , he led his team to third place behind France and Switzerland without losing a game (four wins, six draws).

In the same year, the English Premier League club Portsmouth FC became aware of him and hired him as technical director. Grant gave up his coaching job with the national team. In 2007, Grant was brought to Chelsea by his long-time friend Roman Abramowitsch , where he took over the office of sports director at the beginning of the season. On September 20 of the same year he took over the post of coach from José Mourinho and has since been responsible for the first team together with Steve Clarke (since October 2007 with Henk ten Cate ). On December 13, 2007, his contract was extended for the next four years. Grant was sacked three days after losing the Champions League final to Manchester United .

In October 2009 he returned to Portsmouth FC as football director and took over as head coach a month later. However, he could not save the club, which had come close to bankruptcy towards the end of the season, from relegation, but reached the final of the English Cup against Chelsea. The final was lost 0-1. Avram Grant resigned at the end of the season and was then associated with the first division side West Ham United . The transfer of Avram Grants to West Ham United was confirmed on June 3, 2010. After he had not been able to prevent relegation from the Premier League, he was sacked one game day before the end of the season. In January 2012, the Serbian top club FK Partizan Belgrade signed him as the successor to Aleksandar Stanojević . After winning the championship, he left the Serbian club, from November 2014 to February 2017 he was the coach of the Ghanaian national team and looked after them at the African Championships in 2015 and 2017 .

On January 4, 2018, Indian club NorthEast United FC announced their engagement as an advisor. In addition, Grant took over the post of dismissed head coach João de Deus on an interim basis.

successes

• Israel League Cup : 1986, 1990
• Serbian champion: 2012

Web links

Commons : Avram Grant  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• "Grant and Clarke: Their backgrounds" on the website of Chelsea ( Engl. )
• Avraham Grant on BBC.com
• Avram Grant in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report from Chelsea FC from September 20, 2007
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from November 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Guardian, May 20, 2010: "Avram Grant considers West Ham United offer after quitting Portsmouth"
4. ↑ fussball.com, June 3, 2010: "Avram Grant new coach at West Ham United"
5. ↑ Saopštenje za javnost upravnog odbora FK “Partizan” ( Memento from January 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), association homepage of FK Partizan Belgrade from January 13, 2012
6. ↑ Former Chelsea coach Grant joins the Indian Super League. In: transfermarkt.de. Retrieved January 4, 2018 .