Avram Grant
Avraham Grant was born in Petah Tikva, Israel, to a Polish-Jewish family. He has spent the majority of his career coaching and managing in Israel. Grant moved to England in 2006 to become Technical Director of Portsmouth before being appointed director of football at Chelsea in July 2007. In September 2007, Grant was appointed as Chelsea’s manager. Despite steering the team into the Champions League and League Cup finals, as well as contesting the Premier League title to the last day, his contract was terminated at the end of the season. In 2014 he was appointed coach of the Ghana national football team. He stepped down from the position after a defeat in the semi-finals of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. In January 2018 he moved to
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Avraham Grant was born in Petah Tikva, Israel, to a Polish-Jewish family. He has spent the majority of his career coaching and managing in Israel. Grant moved to England in 2006 to become Technical Director of Portsmouth before being appointed director of football at Chelsea in July 2007. In September 2007, Grant was appointed as Chelsea’s manager. Despite steering the team into the Champions League and League Cup finals, as well as contesting the Premier League title to the last day, his contract was terminated at the end of the season. Grant returned to Portsmouth as director ofFootball in October 2009, and was made manager the following month. After the club’s relegation to the Football League Championship Grant resigned and, on 3 June 2010, wasappointed as manager of West Ham United, a role he held up until 15 May 2011, when he was sacked after the club was relegated. In 2014 he was appointed coach of the Ghana national football team. He stepped down from the position after a defeat in the semi-finals of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. In January 2018 he moved to India to join the Indian Super League side NorthEast United as a technical advisor, a day after the team head coach João de Deus was sacked due to a poor start. Grant is married to Israeli television personality Tzufit Grant, with whom he has a son and a daughter. In October 2009 Grant’s father died aged 82 from complications following surgery to remove a kidney stone. In a 2008 interview his father recalled burying his grandfather, Avraham Granat, with his own hands.
Grant shortened his surname from Granat in the late 1980s. The couple have announced they split up in September 2014. In June 2016, following extensive research into his father’s Polish- Jewish heritage, Avram Grant received his Polish passport from the Polish Embassy in London. He said afterwards: ‘Feeling Polish comes natural to me’ His Polish passport has his name written as Abraham Grant. His father, Meir, was born into a firmly Orthodox Jewish family in Mława, Poland. Meir emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine in violation of the policy of that time and was arrested and detained in Cyprus. After being repatriated to Poland after the war’s end in 1945, he ultimately settled in Israel, where he and Grant’s mother Aliza Nisan, an Iraqi-Jewish immigrant to Israel, met. In 1986, after a 14-year spell in this job, he was promoted to first team coach, leading the club to two Toto Cup victories, in 1990 and 1991, thus bringing Hapoel Petah. Tikva back to the top of Israeli football after nearly 25 years. In 1994, under Grant’s control, Tel Aviv won its first major title in 30 years. The following year the club won the Israeli Cup by winning its second-ever title in its first season. Following this, Grant followed this up with another championship in 1994, however in 1995, he lost out to Maccabi Haifa for what has been described as a short and unsuccessful spell.
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