Full name Jed Cynan Davies Years Team | Place of birth Cardiff, Wales Height 1.83 m | |
Date of birth (1988-01-06) 6 January 1988 (age 29) 2013–2014 Oxford University A.F.C (Head Coach) 2016– Ottawa Fury FC (Assistant Coach) Profiles | ||
Jed Davies (born 6 January 1988) is a Welsh professional football coach, who works for Ottawa Fury as a first team assistant coach.
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Clubs and National Teams
Davies worked at Oxford University A.F.C alongside Mickey Lewis and Jon Collins from 2013 to 2014 before going on to work with Magnus Pehrsson, Manager of the Estonia national football team from 2015.
On 9 August 2016, Davies was hired by Ottawa Fury F.C. alongside Bruce Grobbelaar, Julian de Guzman and Martin Nash as a first team assistant coach, working under head coach Paul Dalglish.
Coach Education
He was one of the company founders of Inspire Football Coach Education UK, a coach education company that has featured the likes of Dick Bate, Raymond Verheijen, FC Barcelona's Albert Capellas, Brian Ashton and many other reputable presenters.
Davies himself has presented for a number of clubs and coach education companies and events such as the World Football Academy Expert Meeting, owned by Dutch coach Raymond Verheijen. Verheijen (former Wales Assistant Manager) referred to Davies as one of the "next generation" of coaches who he appreciated as an educator of football tactics.
Published Books
In 2013 Davies published Coaching the Tiki-Taka Style of Play, a book positively reviewed by Eddie Howe among many others. Eddie Howe commented how the book was one of "Inspiration, different ideas and new angles that can make you better" during his Soccer AM interview on Sky Sports.
The Philosophy of Football: In Shadows of Marcelo Bielsa was published in 2016. The book included insights from Mark Sampson, Chris Davies and those close to the working methods of Marcelo Bielsa.