Aaron Clapham and Mick Curry join CTFC
Posted Oct 19, 2015 in Club Announcements by Lisa Young
The Board of Cashmere Technical FC are proud to announce the appointment of Aaron Clapham as Football Development Manager for the club. He commenced his position on October 5th. Aaron has had an accomplished playing career - as the current Captain and all time highest scorer for Canterbury United, as well as representing New Zealand on 13 occasions including being a member of the undefeated 2010 FIFA World Cup Finals Squad. Aaron has coached in numerous Mainland Football programs for the past 5 years and is the coach of the Haier Canterbury United Academy over the past 2 years, coaching the elite 16-20 year old players in Canterbury. Aaron has been heavily involved with Cashmere Technical for the past 2 seasons as a player in our Champion Senior Men’s Team and has been instrumental in the multi-million dollar development of our Headquarters at Garrick Park.
Long serving coach and Football Development Officer Fred Simpson will be continuing with the club. Fred will focus on developing our younger players, mentoring coaches and community engagement when he returns from England in Mid November.
Aaron will be running all our Skills Centre and Development Programmes in Term 4, and is also planning in house skills development programs for next season.
We are also very pleased to announce the appointment of Mick Curry as Women's first team head coach for the 2016 Robbies Women's Premier League season. Mick has extensive coaching experience in the UK and New Zealand and is very highly qualified having achieved UEFA B qualifications. He is the former Director of Coaching for Woolston Technical and Football Development Officer for Central Football. We look forward to working with Mick as we continue to grow the women's side of our club and push for silverware in 2016.