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Football Federation Victoria (FFV) is delighted to announce the appointment of Sean Douglas as its new Technical Director.

FFV Chief Executive Officer, Mark Rendell, is thrilled to welcome Sean on board, and highlighted his widespread playing and coaching experience in Australia and New Zealand as a valuable asset to FFV.

“Sean will bring his broad and extensive playing and coaching experience to FFV - he has played in the National Soccer League and for the All Whites, and most recently he was the Director of Football at the Auckland Football Federation,” Mr Rendell said.

Mr Rendell said Sean’s appointment follows a restructure within the Talented Player Department.

“The restructure was required so FFV could provide the necessary services to be able to implement the National Curriculum, whilst continuing to improve on the delivery of services currently being provided.

“We will now be developing clearer guidelines for coaches and players to work within all FFV programs, with these guidelines and policies designed to enhance player and coach development opportunities across both men’s and women’s Futsal and football programs throughout the State.”

Sean has coached the New Zealand Under 15’s boys team, and more recently for the last four years was the assistant coach with the New Zealand Under 20’s boys.

His impressive playing career includes captaining Carlton in their inaugural year in the National Soccer League in 1997, in which they competed in the Grand Final, and representing the All Whites 26 times from 1995-2001.

Sean got the coaching bug way back when he was playing for Carlton.

“I took my first coaching course when I was at Carlton, completing the Level 1 course at the time to be able to go out and work in schools and holiday programs for the club. I really enjoyed this and have carried it on,” he said.

Sean said the opportunity to work with Victoria’s talented players was an offer to good to refuse.

“I wanted to work with a bigger pool of coaches and players, and my family are from Melbourne, it’s a fantastic opportunity,” he said.

Sean will be providing a “hands on” approach to the delivery of all Talented Player Programs across Victoria.

“One of the major focuses for me will be overseeing the implementation of strategies for identification and selection of talented players and coaches based on the National Curriculum.

“I want to help coaches to develop Victoria’s players to be the best they can be, and then go onto represent Australia,” he said.