Weeks after retiring as a player Allen landed Championship job but she has been coaching for almost half her life
Remi Allen may seem like a young head coach at 33 and having hung up her playing boots only at the end of last season, but her recent appointment at Southampton is a hard-earned opportunity she was working towards throughout her career. Ever since she began coaching in Leicester’s youth setup as a teenager more than 15 years ago, Allen has been putting in the hard yards to prepare herself for a moment that finally came when she was nearly 8,000 miles from home.
Allen was already feeling on top of the world, on her honeymoon in Bali with her wife, Carly Davies, the Nottingham Forest head coach, and about to head out for dinner, when she got the news that she had landed the job at the Championship side Southampton, prompting “a little extra glass of wine” on that particular evening. Since taking up the reins in July, she has been embracing the “whirlwind” lifestyle of relocating, switching between a mixture of “hotels and Airbnbs” while searching for a place to live and revelling in the “great” facilities at the club’s Staplewood training ground. As she sits down for her first national newspaper interview in the post, she cannot stop smiling.
Continue reading…Weeks after retiring as a player Allen landed Championship job but she has been coaching for almost half her lifeRemi Allen may seem like a young head coach at 33 and having hung up her playing boots only at the end of last season, but her recent appointment at Southampton is a hard-earned opportunity she was working towards throughout her career. Ever since she began coaching in Leicester’s youth setup as a teenager more than 15 years ago, Allen has been putting in the hard yards to prepare herself for a moment that finally came when she was nearly 8,000 miles from home.Allen was already feeling on top of the world, on her honeymoon in Bali with her wife, Carly Davies, the Nottingham Forest head coach, and about to head out for dinner, when she got the news that she had landed the job at the Championship side Southampton, prompting “a little extra glass of wine” on that particular evening. Since taking up the reins in July, she has been embracing the “whirlwind” lifestyle of relocating, switching between a mixture of “hotels and Airbnbs” while searching for a place to live and revelling in the “great” facilities at the club’s Staplewood training ground. As she sits down for her first national newspaper interview in the post, she cannot stop smiling. Continue reading…
