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St Kevin's Boys Club would like to congratulate Craig Sexton on his appointment as Academy manager of Bohemian Football Club.
We look forward to working closely with him on maintaining and strengthening the partnership between our two clubs - a partnership that has been a proven success - onwards in the years to come.
Bohemian FC Statement
Bohemian FC is delighted to confirm the appointment of Craig Sexton as the club’s new Head of Academy.
Sexton vacates his role as Bohemians U19 manager to take up the newly-created full-time post, and leaves the FAI after seven years working in coach development, most recently at IT Carlow.
The 29-year-old will oversee the club’s League of Ireland academy teams, boys and girls, including the partnership teams with St Kevin’s Boys, and all underage Bohemians teams.
Sexton brings to the role a wealth of coaching and player development experience. As well as his roles with the FAI, he has won a league and cup double as manager of the Bohs U19s, where he also managed in the UEFA Youth League in successive years, and spent a season as first team assistant manager at Shelbourne.
He returned to Bohemians earlier this year to take the reins of the U19s once more, and is now looking forward to playing his part in driving the club further forward in his new role.
He said: “There has been brilliant work done over the last number of years. There are a lot of good people who have been driving it forward as much as they can. Their work has put us in a position where we have the potential and ability to grow in all areas.
“I have been involved in youth development for a long time. I have always wanted to progress everything that I am involved in.
“Ultimately I am here to develop everyone at the football club wherever I can; structures, coach development and player development.
“I am here to help the whole process and to help everyone reach their potential. I believe we can bring it to another level. That is the plan; to support all areas of youth football at the club, boys and girls, as well as with our League of Ireland partners at St Kevin’s.
“We have a great working relationship with St Kevin’s. For the last number of years it has certainly been fruitful for everybody. We have benefited and they have benefited, so I am excited about continuing working with the guys and working directly with Stephen Costello.
“But I will be working with all sides; below the League of Ireland teams also at our own club, boys and girls. There are a lot of good people there to work with, and I am looking forward to assisting the support layers that are there across all the teams across the club.”
There has been a welcome and necessary evolution of the attention paid to youth development by League of Ireland clubs and by the FAI in recent years.
It has come a long way since Sexton himself transitioned from schoolboy football with Belvedere to the Bohemians first team a decade ago.
He said: “For young players developing at the moment, the resources and supports they have now at academy level are unbelievable compared to what went before. We are lucky to have that, we are lucky to be able to support the development of young players.
“We are in a much better place in terms of facilities available to us. We have the use of St Kevin’s resources at Shanowen and St Aidan’s, and Bohemians have a first-class training facility at DCU.
“Everything is on site now, everything is catered for. It is night and day compared to what I played in at that age. Don’t get me wrong, I had a really good upbringing and schooling in football as a young player. But what the lads have now is on another level.”