Brentford have appointed former Leicester Metropolis ladies’s supervisor Lydia Bedford as head coach of their under-18s aspect.
It’s thought Bedford, 35, will grow to be the primary girl to carry a training place at a Premier League membership.
She is going to work alongside Jon-Paul Pittman, who will be part of as assistant coach from Forest Inexperienced Rovers.
In 2021-22 Bedford guided Leicester to security after becoming a member of with the membership backside of the Girls’s Tremendous League.
Her most up-to-date function was at Arsenal the place she served as an assistant coach for the WSL aspect this season.
“[We’re] actually happy that we have managed to draw such gifted coaches as Lydia and Jon-Paul to our under-18 crew for subsequent 12 months,” Brentford stated in a press release.
“We undertook an intensive recruitment course of for these roles. Lydia and Jon-Paul had been the 2 finest candidates. I am certain they are going to excel, and all of us look ahead to working with them by way of pre-season and past.”
Bedford started her teaching profession in 2008 and earned her Uefa Professional Licence in 2019 and has managed England ladies’s sides at under-15, U16 and U17 ranges.
Brentford’s senior crew completed ninth within the Premier League this season below supervisor Thomas Frank of their second top-flight marketing campaign since incomes promotion from the Championship.
