Gary Stempel

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Gary Stempel
Personal information
Full name Gary Stempel
Date of birth (1957-01-26) 26 January 1957 (age 67) [1]
Place of birth Panama City, Panama
Managerial career
YearsTeam
1996–1998 San Francisco
1998–2001 Panamá Viejo
2001–2007 San Francisco
2002–2003 → Panama U-20
2003 → Panama U-23
2007 Águila
2008–2009 Panama
2009–2010 San Francisco
2011 Guatemala U-17
2012–2016 San Francisco
2018–2019 Panama under-17
2018–2019 Panama (interim)

Gary Stempel (born 26 January 1957) [2] is a Panamanian football manager. [3] [4]

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Career

Prior to his move to Panama, Stempel was a community outreach officer with London club Millwall. He enjoyed his greatest success as at club level in a four-year spell as manager of San Francisco, a Panamanian football club, during which he won five league titles and two championships with Panama Viejo.

It was during this time that he was also given charge of the Panama under-20 and under-23 teams. He qualified Panama to its first-ever U-20 World Cup in 2003. [5]

In 2007, he became manager of Salvadorian club Águila and in 2008 he was given the opportunity to take charge of the Panama national team. During his tenure as national team coach, Panama won the Central American Nations Cup in 2009. It was the first time Panama had won a major international championship.

After this success, he led the team to the quarter-finals at the 2009 Gold Cup.

Stempel has also been working as a FIFA coach instructor and has conducted courses for coaches in St Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, U.S. Virgin Islands, Belize, Nicaragua and Suriname.

From 2012 to 2016, Gary Stempel was coach for the San Francisco football club located in La Chorrera, Panama.

After the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the current Panama manager, Hernán Darío Gómez, resigned. Stempel was subsequently named interim manager until Panama appoint their next full-time manager. That manager ended up being Julio Dely Valdés.[ citation needed ]

In October 2019, Gary Stempel was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire for his services to youth and sport in Panama.[ citation needed ]

Personal life

Stempel was born in Panama to a Panamanian father, and English mother. He moved to England at the age of 6, and remained there for 34 years holding UK citizenship, before moving back to coach San Francisco. He has an English-born wife and two daughters. [ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ "FIFA Tournaments - Players & Coaches - STEMPEL Gary". Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  2. ↑ "England - G. Stempel - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. 17 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  3. ↑ Gráfico, El (1 March 2018). "Ex técnico de Águila designado como nuevo seleccionador sub 17 de Panamá". El Gráfico (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  4. ↑ Gráfico, El (5 April 2018). "Ex técnico del Águila viajará con Panamá al Mundial de Rusia 2018". El Gráfico (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  5. ↑ "FIFA World Youth Championship 2003 - News - Gary Stempel: "The moment of truth"". www.fifa.com. 21 November 2003. Archived from the original on 26 July 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
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