Guy Azouri

Guy Azouri (born 15 May 1963^[1]) is an Israeli football manager who work as the mananger of Hapoel Kfar Saba.

Career

On June 1999, at the time he was a fitness coach at Maccabi Tel Aviv, gave Azouri to a Maccabi player at the time, Kfir Edri supplement that contains the ephedrine drug, which forbidden to use in football. Guy Azouri punishment was a ban of two years on the football fields, Kfir Edri was banned from six games, while the group received a heavy sentence reduction of 4 points and a fine of NIS 100 thousand.

After his return from the suspension, he was appointant as a group fitness instructor of Bnei Yehuda.

After Eli Ohana resigned in September 2005 from Beitar Jerusalem, he was replaced by interim coach Guy Azouri. Since he didn't had a Pro Manager diploma, he needed a trainer at the mercy of an organization, given Beitar this temporary permit until a new coach is found. After extra time ended, Beitar signed the Dutch Ton Caanen as a coach, Guy Azouri was demoted to an assistant coach. Azouri also served as an assistant coach under Luis Fernández who resigned at the end of the season. That summer Beitar signed the Argentinian manager Osvaldo Ardiles who was not interested in helping of an assistant manager, Azouri decided to train the youth of Beitar, After a few rounds in the youth club in the 2006–07. the youth department won the Double (Championship and Youth Cup) the first time in its history. The club later won another championship under his guidance.

On 21 August 2008, after the resignation of Nitzan Shirazi, he was appointed as the Maccabi Petah Tikva manager. On December 22 it was published in the media a few comments of Maccabi Petah Tikva President Amos Luzon, who said: "If I had the power to deal with the dismissal of a manager again and after manager searches for and the hate of the media, I died right now from the valley help",^[2] Against this background Azouri resigned from his post due to disagreements with management staff regarding the construction and functioning of the club. After the resignation Luzon denied that he said the comments attributed to him.^[3]

On 28 May 2009, Azouri was appointed the manager of Hapoel Be'er Sheva replacing Guy Levy. In the start of the season after the opening sequence of unsuccessful results in the club during the 2009–10 season the Be'er Sheva fans began to protest against his conduct as a manager. Violent protests reached the coach verbally and physically.^[4] Soon after he resigned from the club.

On 14 June 2010, Azouri was appointed the manager of Hapoel Ashkelon.,^[5] On 15 March 2011, he was sacked from the club.

On 22 May 2011, Azouri was appointed the manager of Hapoel Kfar Saba. 4 months later, because of the form the team was, he resigned from Hapoel Kfar Saba.

On 17 February 2013, Azouri was appointed the general manager of the Israel Girl's Academy, and the manager of Israel Women's U19 and U17.

Honours

• Israeli Youth Championship:
  • Winner (2): 2006–07, 2007–08
• Youth State Cup:
  • Winner (1): 2006–07

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