Paul Ashworth
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 29 September 1969 | ||
| Place of birth | Buxton, Norfolk, England | ||
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Current team
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FK Ventspils (manager) | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 2001–2003 | FK Ventspils | ||
| 2004 | FK Riga | ||
| 2005 | FC Rostov Sporting Director | ||
| 2005 | FC Rostov Caretaker | ||
| 2005–2009 | Skonto FC | ||
| 2010–2014 | Kwara Football Academy Technical Director | ||
| 2015 | Sunshine Stars F.C. | ||
| 2015 – | FK Ventspils | ||
Paul Anthony Ashworth (born 29 September 1969) is a former English footballer and assistant manager who is currently working as Head Coach at FK Ventspils in Latvia.
Ashworth had previously played at youth level for Norwich City before setting up PASS Soccer Schools, a national company. He later worked for Cambridge United and Peterborough United before moving to Latvia where he managed FK Ventspils, FK Riga and Skonto Riga as well as taking over at Russian side FC Rostov as Sporting Director. He worked as a Technical Director in Nigeria from May 2010 - 2014. He was Manager/Technical Director at Sunshine Stars Football Club, a Nigerian premier league team for 6 months before moving back to FK Ventspils as Head Coach (Manager).
Paul came through the youth system at Norwich City where he played for the side at schoolboy level. He didn't make the step up to the first team though but began to coach the youth teams at the club.
While Ashworth was at Carrow Road, he set up his own company, PASS Soccer Schools. The best players were put into representative teams from under-10 to under-16 age groups, met during the holiday periods and travelled to countries in Europe, North and South America to face their counterparts. His teams played against opposition from France, Canada, United States, Finland, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, Brazil and Italy. At its height, PASS employed more than forty coaches and saw more than 100,000 children each year attend its soccer schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
In 1992, Cambridge United offered Ashworth a role as youth development officer at the club. He had previously worked with Kit Carson at Carrow Road and teamed up with him again at the Abbey Stadium. The job was to nurture the club's youth system and at its height, 70% of the first team squad had come through the youth ranks. It was here that he met Gary Johnson who was the club's youth team manager (whom he later met again in Latvia).
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