Ron Smith (football coach)
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| Ron Smith | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ronald Smith | |
| Date of birth | ||
| Place of birth | London, England | |
| Playing position | Manager | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Perth Glory FC | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1966 1968-1971 1971-1972 1972-1973 1974-1975 |
Tottenham Hotspur Borough Road College F.C. Kingstonian F.C. Southall F.C. South Melbourne SC |
*{*) *(*) *(*) *(*) *(*) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1979 1995-1997 1998-1999 2005 2006-Present |
IBK Keflavik FC Johor FC Sabah FC Australia (interim coach) Perth Glory FC |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Ronald (Ron) Smith (born in London, England) is an Australian football (soccer) coach. Smith is currently coach of Perth Glory FC in the A-League.
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[edit] Playing Career
Smith played as a junior for North London team Tottenham Hotspur before injury forced an end to his top flight football ambitions. He then went onto play for a number of non-league teams in England before emigrating to Australia to play for South Melbourne SC in 1974.
[edit] Australian Institute of Sport
Smith worked as the Assistant Coach of the football (soccer) program at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra from 1982 to 1986, and then as Head Coach from 1986 to 1996. During this period he mentored a number of players including Mark Viduka, Craig Moore, Lucas Neill and Josip Simunic.
[edit] Malaysia
Smith coached Sabah FA in 1996 and 1997 and Johor FC in 1998 and 1999 in the Malaysian Super League. Smith served as technical director to the Football Association of Malaysia between 1999 and 2002.
[edit] Technical Analyst
Smith spent time in 2003 at Liverpool FC assisting Gérard Houllier with video analysis before returning to his adopted Australia in 2004 to serve as Technical Manager to the Australian national football team. In June 2005 Smith was appointed interim coach of the Australian national team until the appointment of Guus Hiddink when he resumed his position as Technical Manager. Ron Smith uses "Sportscode" digital video analysis software that allows coaches to analyse football video by breaking the play down into its component parts.
[edit] Perth Glory
In July 2006, Smith resigned as full time Technical Manager with the FFA to take on the vacant coach's job at Perth Glory FC although he still keeps a part time role with the national team. David Mitchell serves as Smith's assistant and the two plan to rebuild the squad for the 2007-08 season.
Smith has come under criticism from some sections of the club's supporter base for releasing young striker Luka Glavas, who was seen by many as a potential star for the club.
[edit] Quotes
"Some people prefer to look at individual players, I actually code games to look at what the team does with the ball. Where do they win it back? Where do they regain possession? How far do they progress with it? Because that sort of information gives you an indication of how effective your tactics are."
"My function with the national team is to provide information to the coaches. To be able to break a game down into pieces and to say if you want to quickly look at all of the possession that a team has, then you can. One thing that I found from looking at isolated parts of the game is that you can see patterns emerge very, very quickly, because it is happening more frequently than in watching a normal game over a ninety minute period."
[edit] References
- Smith Grabs the Glory "The World Game", July 2006.
- Perth Glory Squad Changes, www.perthglory.com.au, 25 January 2007.
| Perth Glory FC - Current Squad |
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1 Petkovic | 2 Townsend | 3 Tarka | 4 Colosimo | 5 Harnwell | 6 Christie | 7 Saric | 8 Micevski | 9 Glavas | 10 Despotovski | 11 Lazaridis | 12 Bertos | 13 Kovacevic | 14 Coyne | 15 Robertson | 16 Webster | 17 Young | 18 Magdic | 19 Sekulovski | 20 Vrteski | 24 Pezos | 50 Tomich | Coach Smith |
