AVRAHAM GRANT

'Avraham Grant' (, born May 6, 1955 in Petah Tikva) is the Director of Football at Chelsea F.C..
Once coach of both Maccabi Tel Aviv (twice, from 1991-1995 and less successfully from 1997-2000) and Maccabi Haifa (2000-2002), Grant was formerly the national team coach of Israel, taking the position in May 2002 when he replaced Dane Richard Møller Nielsen. Israel finished third in 2006 World Cup qualifying Group 4 behind winners France and runners-up Switzerland. This meant that Israel marginally missed on qualification to the finals, despite being undefeated in the group - with four wins and six draws. He announced on 26 October 2005 that he would step down from the national team as his contract expires in June 2006. Subsequent to this he took up his new position as Technical Director at Portsmouth. A personal friend of Roman Abramovich, on 8 July 2007 he was appointed Director of Football at Chelsea.^[1]

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1. Grant given position at Chelsea BBC Sport, 8 July 2007