Paul Nevin is a football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 manager. He is the former custodian of the New Zealand Knights, a professional club competing in the A-League

A-League

The A-League is the top Australasian professional football league. Run by Australian governing body Football Federation Australia , it was founded in 2004 following the folding of the National Soccer League and staged its inaugural season in 2005–06. It is sponsored by Hyundai Motor Company...

. He was dismissed on November 15, 2006 due to poor performance.

Biography

Prior to this, Nevin was an academy and reserve team manager at Fulham FC in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. He then moved to the Knights as assistant coach during their 2005-06 A-League campaign

New Zealand Knights FC Season 2005-06

The 2005-06 season was the first for both the New Zealand Knights and the A-League. Picking up just one win and three draws out of the 21 regular season matches, the Knights finished at the bottom of the table, 20 points behind 7th placed Melbourne Victory....

, which included just one win in 21 matches. Nevin was subsequently appointed manager with the departure of former coach John Adshead

John Adshead

John Adshead is an England-born former head coach of New Zealand's national football team the All Whites, whom he led to their first FIFA World Cup appearance in the 1982 tournament...

 at the completion of the 2005-06 A-League season

A-League 2005-06

The 2005-06 season was the first season of the A-League, a domestic club competition for football in Australia. After over 12 months without a national professional club competition, the first match in the A-League was played on 26 August 2005...

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Nevin was banned from the technical area for 2 matches as a result of a code of conduct violation during the 2006-07 A-League season.