Graeme Dell was employed as The Football Association

The Football Association

The Football Association, also known as simply The FA, is the governing body of football in England, and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. It was formed in 1863, and is the oldest national football association...

's National Futsal

Futsal

Futsal is a variant of association football that is played on a smaller pitch and mainly played indoors. Its name is a portmanteau of the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol de salón , which can be translated as "hall football" or "indoor football"...

 Coach and has been in that position since The FA started their Futsal programme in 2003, when he led the first ever England Futsal team in the 2004 UEFA Futsal Championship

UEFA Futsal Championship

The UEFA Futsal Championship is the main futsal competition of the men's national futsal teams governed by UEFA .-Statistics:-Performance by nations:-External links:...

s. Dell led England in 51 international futsal matches, including the 2006 UEFA Futsal Championship and the 2008 FIFA Futsal World Cup before he stepped down on March 25, 2008.

Early life and education

He was born in Chalfont St Giles

Chalfont St Giles

Chalfont St Giles is a village and civil parish within Chiltern district in south east Buckinghamshire, England, on the edge of the Chilterns, 25 miles from London, and near Seer Green, Jordans, Chalfont St Peter, Little Chalfont and Amersham....

, Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....

 on 8 April 1964. Dell was educated at The Chalfonts County Secondary School.

Career

At the age of 21 years and 4 months he remains the youngest coach to be awarded The FA Full Coaching Licence. Since that time his reputation has grown as both a football and more latterly a futsal coach. More recently he has been heading up The FA's futsal coach education programme to develop a new breed of coach capable of developing futsal specific players and bringing the game to the wider football community in England. He is widely credited with establishing Futsal in England.

In 2011 Dell was invited to become a FIFA Coaching Instructor by the worlds governing body of football, one of an elite group worldwide. This significant role combines delivering FIFA coach education courses around the world and assisting FIFA's member associations, whilst acting as an ambassador for the game.

His coaching experience across all levels of the game followed a short playing spell at Watford F.C.

Watford F.C.

Watford Football Club is an English professional football club based in Watford, Hertfordshire. It is often referred to as Watford F.C., Watford, or by the team's nickname The Hornets . Watford Rovers, Founded in 1881, entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1886, and the Southern League a decade...

 as a youngster and then on the non-league circuit.

He has held the post of Youth, Reserve and First team coach at Wycombe Wanderers F.C.

Wycombe Wanderers F.C.

Wycombe Wanderers Football Club is an English professional football team from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, which has been promoted to Football League One after finishing third in Football League Two in the season 2010–11. The club's nicknames are "The Chairboys" and "The Blues", and they play...

 as well as Chief 1st X1 Scout and Centre of Excellence Director at Queens Park Rangers F.C.

Queens Park Rangers F.C.

Queens Park Rangers Football Club is an English professional football club, based in White City, Hammersmith and Fulham, west London. As the 2010-11 Football League Championship champions, they now play in the top tier of English football the Premier League, for the first time in 15 years...

 under the guidance of Don Howe. He has coached abroad on various assignments for several National Federations. In the early 1990s Dell worked as a regional coach for The FA as part of their Centres of Excellence Programme where he was involved in the player review and selection process for each years intake of The FA National School at Lilleshall, eventually becoming part of Technical Director Keith Blunt

Keith Blunt

Keith Blunt is an English football coach. He managed Sutton United from the late seventies until moving onto Malmo and then Viking in 1984. In 1987, he was coach of Tottenham Hotspur FC's youth team. In 1997, Blunt was head coach at the Centre of Excellence in Lilleshall in England...

's Final assessment staff.

Amongst the coaches he has worked for include Sir Bobby Robson, Roy Hodgson

Roy Hodgson

Roy Hodgson is a former English footballer and current head coach of West Bromwich Albion.Hodgson, who has managed sixteen different teams in eight countries, guided the Switzerland national team to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup and qualification for Euro 1996; Switzerland had not qualified...

, Don Howe, Les Reed

Les Reed

Les Reed O.B.E. is an English songwriter, musician and light orchestra leader.-Career:...

 and England's most successful youth team Coach to date Ted Powell.

In 2001 he was selected by the British Olympic Association

British Olympic Association

The British Olympic Association is the national Olympic committee for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It was formed in 1905 in the House of Commons, and at that time consisted of seven national governing body members from the following sports: fencing, life-saving, cycling, skating, rowing,...

 as their representative at the National Olympic Academy in Olympia, Greece

Olympia, Greece

Olympia , a sanctuary of ancient Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times, comparable in importance to the Pythian Games held in Delphi. Both games were held every Olympiad , the Olympic Games dating back possibly further than 776 BC...

.

He has coached the British Universities (BUSA) National Football team at eight FISU World University Games (Universiade

Universiade

The Universiade is an International multi-sport event, organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation . The name is a combination of the words "University" and "olympiad"...

) in 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009, most recently losing in the semi-finals to Ukraine on penalty kicks, yet finishing in 4th place, Great Britain's highest finish since 1993 at that level. Dell also headed three GB delegations at FISU World University Futsal Championships in 2004, 2006 and 2008 showing progress in all three encounters and winning the FIFA Fair Play Award on three consecutive occasions. In 2007 he was awarded an honorary Life Membership of the British Universities Sports Association

British Universities Sports Association

British Universities & Colleges Sport is the governing body for university sport in the United Kingdom. BUCS was formed in June 2008 following a merger of the British Universities Sports Association and University College Sport organisations...

 for over 20 years contribution to student sport.

His expertise as a progressive, innovative coach and player educator is broadly recognised throughout football having coached in over 300 international fixtures. He is one of Britain’s most experienced international coaches across all sports. Media reports suggest he is a no nonsense, focused and disciplined coach receiving wide acclaim from players and coaches alike.

Dell's experience as a coach is matched by his expertise as an administrator which was also recognised when he was chosen to work with team England at the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002

2002 Commonwealth Games

The 2002 Commonwealth Games were held in Manchester, England from 25 July to 4 August 2002. The XVII Commonwealth Games was the largest multi-sport event ever to be held in the UK, eclipsing London's 1948 Summer Olympics in numbers of teams and athletes participating.After the 1996 Manchester...

 and in the Team England Holding Camp in Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

 in 2006. Dell was also a key member of the England backroom staff at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India.

Dell is also a successful businessman, and in 2005 he was awarded an honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society for Manufactures and Arts (RSA) and is a Business Mentor for the Princes Trust. Also in that year one of his businesses was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise.

Recent searches at Companies House also show Dell as a non-executive director of several businesses, amongst them, @Futsal Limited a new start up company making a multi-million pound investment into futsal facilities and educational programmes within the UK.