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Tulips Appoint `Interesting` New Management Team | ||||||||||||
Tuesday 27 October 20 I 13:04:08 | ||||||||||||
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The former DR Congo international defender, who recently retired, started his career with Leyton Orient and completed nearly 500 games in the Football League with Stoke City, Northampton Town, Gillingham, Swindon Town and, most notably Peterborough United.
He
and assistant manager Neal Spafford have been in caretaker charge of the Tulips
since Lewis Thorogood resigned on October 12th, overseeing defeats against
Cleethorpes Town, Bedford Town and Worksop Town.
Spafford
will remain at the club as Zakuani’s (pictured) assistant, with ex-Newcastle United and
Portsmouth striker Lomana Tresor LuaLua joining the club as an attacking coach.
Spalding
also welcome experienced former Bedford Town man Ronayne Marsh-Brown to the
club as first-team coach.
Tulips
CEO Leigh Porter revealed that Zakuani has “made sacrifices” to take on the job
and feels that the Posh legend shares the club’s vision as they bid to “break
new ground” moving forward.
He
told http://www.spaldingvoice.co.uk:
“We would like to thank everyone who applied for the role and for their
interest in Spalding United Football Club.
“We
took our time and completed a thorough process internally and we are very happy
with the new and exciting setup.
“Gaby
shares our vision and has the same hunger and ambition we have at the club to
break new ground but in the right way, he’s had time to look at the club
closely and presented what he feels needs to happen for us to move forward on
the playing side which we agreed with.
“He
has made sacrifices to enable him to fully commit to the role, which was a
requirement, and we very much appreciate, and we look forward to working with
him in an official capacity from today (Monday).”
Zakuani
had earlier admitted that he had been advising Spalding since his friend Andrew
Killingsworth took over the club back in the summer.
Killingsworth
has been a major sponsor of Peterborough United in recent times – and that link
seems to have allowed the Tulips to pull off a major coup.
Zakuani
sees the role as an “exciting opportunity”.
“I’ve
seen the set up in the last few weeks, I look forward to now putting my stamp
on the squad.
“I
know it is going to take a lot of hard work, but I believe in myself and my
staff’s ability.
“I
also would like to thank the board for this exciting opportunity”. |
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