Barrow have made an important new signing from Premier League champions Manchester City!
The Bluebirds have appointed Adam Temple as the assistant manager to newly-appointed boss Peter Wild.
Although never a professional footballer 39-year-old Temple has amassed a huge amount of coaching experience with both City and Man United, along with a spell at Oldham Athletic.
He had actually decided to go down the coaching route at 16 years of age when he started a coaching scholarship with United in 1999 and went on to spend the next 15 years with the Old Trafford club.
His varying roles gave him a taste of coaching across the club’s community, education, disability and girls’ programmes, as well as responsibility for some of the younger age groups within their famed Academy.
The A Licence qualified coach was then handed the opportunity to broaden his experience with a move to Oldham Athletic where he was able to work with a number of age groups in The Latics’ Academy from Under-12s all the way through to Under-18’s.
Having developed his trade and his reputation, Temple was then offered a role at Manchester City and has spent the past eight-and-a-half years working with youngsters in their Academy, whilst also taking on some extra one-on-one coaching with older players as they pushed for the first team.
He is set to start work immediately and will join a new leadership group of first team manager, Peter Wild and sporting director, Iain Wood.
Wild said: “I’m delighted to have Adam join our team. He’s a highly sought-after young coach who brings outstanding experience of working in a world class football environment and is exactly the right person to help us deliver on our development plans.”
Temple said: “Working with Pete on such a project as this one at Barrow was a compelling opportunity and presents an appropriate next challenge for me in my career.
“I am ambitious to learn and progress in the EFL, so this is a great place to start, I am delighted to be here, and I can’t wait to get started.”
In a message to City, Temple said: “After nine seasons I’ve decided to leave Man City. It’s been an amazing time of learning and growth, working with some ultra-talented boys and having been fortunate to see some make debuts for City and elsewhere. I’ll be following all their careers and wish them all the best of luck.”
