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Former West Ham player Kenny Brown has been named Interim Academy Manager after Ricky Martin announced he was leaving the club to join Stoke City as 1st Team Technical Director.
Kenny Brown returned to West Ham in January as Assistant Head of Coaching for the U9’s – U14’s. Brown who holds a Pro Licence holder spent 6 years at Millwall as Academy Head of Coaching before returning to West Ham. He will be supported in the role by Head of coaching development Kalam Mooniaruck.
Kenny Brown made over 80 appearances for the club and one of those appearances will go down in West Ham’s history books as one of the most entertaining games in many fans history. Even though we were relegated we had one last message to the old Division 1.
22nd April 1992 Manchester United were top of the table with a game on hand on Leeds United. They had momentum and looked likely to go forward and win the title, but we all know what happened.
Stuart Slater hit a post before West Ham’s performance was finally rewarded on 66 minutes through the unlikely figure of Kenny Brown.
Slater’s cross was diverted into the path of the 24-year-old son of West Ham legend Ken – who was watching on from the stand – by Gary Pallister and Brown drove his volley unerringly past Schmeichel.
West Ham won the game 1-0 and Manchester Utd went on to finish 2nd in the league to Leeds Utd.
Upon taking up his new role at West Ham Kenny Brown said to the Official West Ham site
“I am very honoured and proud to have been asked to step into this role for the interim period at West Ham United’s world-renowned Academy, which I believe will help us to ensure continuity and, most importantly, consistency and familiarity in the development of our young players.
“On behalf of everyone at the Academy, I’d like to thank Ricky for all of his hard work and support. He has been a great help to me personally since I arrived at the Club in January and he leaves the Academy in an extremely strong and healthy position.
“We continue to hold Category One elite status following the recent report from the Professional Game Academy Audit Company, meaning that we can provide the very highest tier of youth football provision for our players. The success of our Academy was there for all to see in our recent UEFA Europa Conference League fixture against FCSB last week, with Ollie Scarles becoming the sixth youngest player to feature for the senior team, and Divin Mubama, Kaelan Casey and Kamarai Swyer also making their senior debuts, in a squad boasting numerous Academy graduates.
“I am looking forward to continuing that good work with Kalam – who has great experience and knowledge having been at Chadwell Heath for more than four years now – along with all of the Academy staff, who do such great work across so many areas.”
We wish you the very best of luck Kenny
