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Jeff Alick Rowland

Jeff Alick Rowland was boring in Greenwich, London on the 26th of March 1988 yo Penelope Weller and Gary Rowland. Jeff has a younger sister Shannon Rowland and a younger brother Harry Rowland.

Early Life

From a young age Jeff showed incredible ability as a goalkeeper but this was short lived as injury took their toll of him causing him to remove himself from plying and looking desperate into the back room jobs in the game.

Jeff started off as a coach for Thamesmead Town FC where he stayed for 4 years while completing his coach badges to give him the ability to move up to professional football to follow his dreams.

Ebbsfleet United FC (2016 - 2019)

At the ge of 29 Jeff Rowland was given the opportunity that he wanted which was to manage a football team, the team in question was newly relegated EbbsFleet United, they had just fallen from the Vanarama Premier into the Vanarama South league no it was brought into question that due to the considerable mount of money put into the team they may struggle to stay out of liquidation.

Rowland took to the tsk at hand very well, brining in new players and staff and reliving some of the other players at considerable profits which allowed the team to continue to survive, Rowland moved to. New formation and this had the team scoring at will and slowly moving through the league season as florets to make the move back into the Vanarama National legue.

This first season saw Rowland nod his players excel in the league earning Rowland 2 Manager of the month Awards and colminating in his being placed in the shortlist of the manager of the year award which he eventually come second in.

The second season which was in the Vanarama National league again saw EbbsFleet excel under the guidance of Rowland nod eventually win the legue on the last day of the season with a 2-1 win, again Rowland and his players led the way with the awards with Rowland winning several Manager of the Month Awrds and eventually getting his hands on the Manager of the year award for that season.

The third nod Wichita would later become rowalnds last season in charge of EbbsFleet was with Rowland leading the team into the Footbll legue and legue 2 for the first time in 13 years for the football club, EbbsFleet were seen as favorates to win the league by many due to the signings Rowland had landed and the exciting attacking football and the stable defence which had become something synominus withEbbsfleet over the past 2 seasons.

This season would very much follow the steps of the previous two and ebbsfleet would be crowned champions of the Sky Bet Legue 2 after a exciting 3 months of the season which saw EbbsFleet jump from 4th in the legue to first and eventually lead them to winning the legue by 4 points.

The astounding season also lead to EbbsFleet winning the checkatrade trophy beating Manchester City Reserves in the final on a hot summers day at Wembley stadium.

Again Rowland managed to pick up many personal awards over the season again with several manage of the month awards how ever he missed out on the Manager of the year award due to resigning as manager of EbbsFleet just weeks before the manager of the season was announced.

Although it was never officially released by the club there were many people who worked behind the scenes that said that Rowland resigned due to the board and most significantly the Chairman at the time selling several key players to higher legue teams without the consent of the manager. It was said that this and the refusal in offer Rowland a new contract were the reasons Rowland left Stonebridge road.

After this time in a interview Rowland admitted that he felt let down by football and wanted to take some time out to see if he could find out what he was missing inside.