Bobby Murphy (soccer coach)

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Bobby Murphy is an American football coach . From 2016 to 2018 he was assistant coach at Orlando City SC , which played in Major League Soccer (MLS), the highest North American soccer league. In the meantime, after the dismissal of Adrian Heath , he appeared as interim trainer of the franchise, before Jason Kreis took over the coaching position after a few weeks . After he left Kreis in June 2018, he was interim coach of the franchise for about two weeks before he was also dismissed after signing the new coach James O'Connor .

Career

Before joining Orlando City SC, Murphy served as the director of the football academy at St. Stephen's Episcopal School , a private co-educational college preparatory school , and boarding and day school in Austin , Texas . He held this office from 2003 until he moved in 2016. During this time he also supported various youth football clubs , such as the Lonestar Soccer Club founded in 2004 . Before that he was Director of Coaching at the South Texas Youth Soccer Association .

In Texas he also appeared briefly as an assistant coach for a young team with play in the Premier Development League (PDL) before Phil Rawlins , main shareholder in Austin Aztex , a US second division team, approached him and asked him for support . At the Aztex, Murphy was head coach Adrian Heath's right-hand man , but mostly worked from the background. After Rawlins relocated the franchise to Orlando , Florida in 2010-11 and continued it as Orlando City , Murphy continued with his second job at St. Stephen's Episcopal School . The reason he gave was that his children were still going to school at this point and he wanted to stay until they had finished. Harrison Heath , son of Adrian Heath, later even said of Murphy that he was like a second father to him.

On January 15, 2016, the MLS Franchise announced the engagement of Bobby Murphy as the new Assistant Trainer and Technical Coordinator of the MLS Academy of the Franchise. After the sacking of head coach Adrian Heath, Bobby Murphy was named interim coach of the MLS franchise on July 7, 2016. His first game as an interim coach took place the next day in a 0-0 draw against Houston Dynamo . Then he also appeared in the subsequent championship game, a 2-2 defeat against the New York Red Bulls and in the league game after that , a 2-2 draw against the Vancouver Whitecaps . After the signing of Jason Kreis , which was announced on July 19, 2016, Murphy supervised the team in the subsequent championship round with the support of Anthony Pulis , who also acted briefly as interim coach and was actually the coach of Orlando City B 2-2 away draw against the Columbus Crew before Jason Kreis started work the following day. Since then, Murphy has reappeared as the academy's assistant coach and technical coordinator. After Kreis was fired from Orlando City on June 15, 2018, Murphy again took over the interim coaching position. He then appeared in three games as the coach of the franchise, before James O'Connor took over the vacant coaching post two weeks later and Murphy was then also fired from the franchise.

Murphy holds the USSF -A- and USSF-National-Youth-Trainer licenses. He also holds a Bachelor's degree (B.Sc.) in English from New Hampshire College and a Master's degree (M.Ed.) from Plymouth State College . As a football player, he was at Syracuse University for an NCAA Division I team before he began his career as a football coach in New Hampshire. He is also a member of the US Soccer Federation National Staff, as well as a US Youth Soccer National Instructor and a South Region (III) Olympic Development Program (ODP) staff coach.

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bobby Murphy Joins Orlando City SC as Assistant Coach and Technical Coordinator for MLS Academy , accessed March 11, 2018
  2. ↑ Orlando City SC see Tim Holt leave for USL San Antonio, hire Bobby Murphy assistant coach and Academy coordinator , accessed March 11, 2018
  3. ↑ Orlando City named Bobby Murphy interim coach , accessed on March 11, 2018
  4. ↑ a b Orlando City hires former NYCFC coach Jason Kreis , accessed March 11, 2018
  5. ^ Columbus Crew SC 2, Orlando City SC 2 | 2016 MLS Match Recap , accessed March 11, 2018
  6. ↑ a b Orlando City SC Agrees to Part Ways with Head Coach Jason Kreis (English), accessed April 26, 2020
  7. ↑ BREAKING: LOUISVILLE CITY FOOTBALL CLUB AGREES DEAL IN PRINCIPLE WITH ORLANDO CITY SC , accessed on April 26, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Murphy, Bobby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football coach
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century