User:Russell Hullett

''Russell Hullett (born 22/05/1973) is a English professional football manager and former player (Derby County FC). He is widely thought to be one of the up and coming English football coaches having worked his way up from academy football having held most positions from coach, scout, international and national level head scout and academy manager/U23 coach.

Following a career as a creative midfielder, Hullett's career was cut short by injury before playing across England's football pyramid. Hullett's career first entered the sphere of management/coaching as an youth team academy coach at Nottingham Forest. Following an approach by Aston Villa in 2011, Hullett moved to the club as a national level scout where he discovered some excellent talents, before moving to West Bromwich Albion in 2013 in a more senior role heading up the national scouting team. In 2015 Hullett was recruited by the new owner at Nott's County as Academy Manager/U23 Head Coach to revamp the clubs new recruitment and coaching set up. Despite in a short period of time producing and overseeing the development of an exciting new academy that produced 2 players who were signed by Premier League clubs, Hullett left the club due to the major problems at board level that then saw the club lose 2 x 1st team managers, and no fewer than 4 academy managers in a 3 year period, as the club was relegated for the first time in its history to the football conference.

In 2016 Hullett was quickly recruited by Manchester United to form part of their new professional (national/international) academy recruitment team. Following his successful coaching/recruitment work in Norway, Hullett was approached and subsequently took over as Head Coach of Lillehammer FK, where his coaching and recruitment skills were tested as he took over the team that had lost 14 of the senior players from the previous season. Despite this, Hulletts team were soon the leagues leading goalscorer's and the team were never out of the top 3 despite having the leagues smallest budget. Hullett's tactical experience and attractive style of play was soon winning admirers but he decided to honour his contract, however half way through the season, the club lost its major sponsors which meant the club could no longer afford to pay him and his foreign imports, who were also now also attracting interest from clubs from around europe.

Hullett took a short break from football but its believed he already has many suitors looking for him to take over their club as Head Coach or Technical Director, and its anticipated he will soon be managing at a high level. Hullett is currently the Head Women's Coach at Oxford University, where he has achieved a 100% win record, and it's believed that WSL teams are starting to take notice, especially due to the exciting attacking style they have adopted.

Hullett who is a Uefa A licensed coach, is still only one of a handful of UK coaches to have attended the world famous KNVB coaching academy in Holland and passed their International coaching license.