Junior team managers named for 2015 Euro Games
The junior team managers for Maccabi GB at the forthcoming European Maccabi Games in Berlin in July 2015 have officially been announced.
Maccabi GB, in partnership with UJIA, have announced Brian Green as the junior team manager chair, with Abbi and Neil Taylor the junior team managers.
Brian Green has 35 years of experience managing youth sports teams. He was Team GB’s Junior Team Manager at the European Maccabi Games in Rome (2007) and Vienna (2011) and Sports Chair for Junior Football/Futsal at the last two Maccabiah World Games in Israel. Brian will also be Head of Delegation for Team GB at the JCC Maccabi Games for the fifth year this summer.
Neil Taylor is a Sports and Exercise Science teacher in a sixth form college in London. He has experience of working with members of the Team GB Olympic and Paralympic squads within schools around the UK as well as working as a first aider at the 2012 Paralympic Games. He has been to 2 JCC Maccabi Games and 2 Maccabiah Games as Sports Manager and athlete and has come away from all those games highly decorated which includes managing and coaching the first ever Maccabi GB Under 18 Rugby squad to a Maccabiah Silver medal and Guinness World Record. Neil has always been a keen sportsman, playing rugby, track & field and swimming to county standard.
Abbi Taylor is a physiotherapist within the NHS who has also worked in this role at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games and has subsequently been selected to help with Team GB’s Disability Swimming Squad in preparation for Rio 2016. As a keen swimmer herself, Abbi has competed, managed and been part of the medical team at numerous Maccabi GB sporting events including 4 JCC Maccabi Games, 1 European Games and 3 Maccabiah Games including managing the Junior & Open swimming teams at this year’s Maccabiah Games.
Abbi and Neil met as part of the management team for the 2010 JCC Maccabi Games in Denver and subsequently married five weeks before this year’s 19th Maccabiah Games.
Speaking of their appointments Brian Green said “I am extremely excited to be working with the Junior Delegation once again for the European Maccabi Games. It will be a special Games in Berlin in 2015 and we are committed to take an extremely competitive Junior Delegation who can not only enjoy the competition, but also make the most of educational opportunities Berlin undoubtedly offers.”
Abbi Taylor said “I am very keen to promote education alongside sport within my role as Junior Team Manager in Berlin. I think it is important to make sure that the athletes selected for Berlin 2015 make a lot of friends, have a fantastic sporting experience and learn along the way.”
Neil Taylor said “I have a passion for sport and management which I hope will enable Maccabi GB to succeed at the European Maccabi Games both on and off the pitch.”
* Meanwhile, Richard Horne has been announced as Assistant General Team Manager for the elgation.
Richard, who will be assisting Joel Nathan, general team manager, has spent the last 15 years heavily involved in managing and coaching football teams including Excel Academy, Aldenham FC & Brady Maccabi. Richard was joint manager for the U18 Futsal Team at the 19th Maccabiah Games this summer and also has a Level 2 FA coaching badge in football along with Level 1 in Futsal.
On his appointment Richard said “I am honoured to be Assistant General Team Manager for the 2015 European Maccabi Games in Berlin. I am deeply committed to working as part of the team to achieve an extremely competitive Delegation for Berlin 2015 and ensure Maccabi GB maximises its potential in the build up to and during the European Maccabi Games.”
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