Phil Stubbins is a former 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...

 Striker from the Hull

Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...

, England

England

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, who migrated to Australia

Australia

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 and played for various local Football

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...

 teams as well a number of overseas clubs most notably Japan

Japan

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ese side Sanfrecce Hiroshima

Sanfrecce Hiroshima

is a Japanese association football club in the J. League Division 1.-Club name:The club name is a portmanteau of the Japanese numeral for three, San and an Italian word frecce or 'arrows'...

.

Biography

He retired as a player 2001 and continued his coaching career which he had already started as a player/manager in 1994. After great successes managing a number of local Australian teams which he had also played for (as well as the Victorian state team) he signed a contract with Adelaide United as Assistant Manager to Aurelio Vidmar

Aurelio Vidmar

Aurelio Vidmar is an Australian football player and former captain of the Australian national team. He is currently not tied to any A-league club...

 in 2007.

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