Oscar Garcia signs contract with Brighton & Hove Albion
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Brighton & Hove Albion's new head coach Oscar Garcia has signed a three-year deal with the club.
The 40-year-old quit Maccabi Tel Aviv to take up the role at the Championship side in June after the dismissal of former boss Gus Poyet.
Garcia has now penned his contract and he told Brighton's website: "I am delighted to have signed a long-term contract with the club.
"I am now very much looking forward to the challenge ahead."
Brighton said the post of head coach was a newly-created role when Garcia arrived at the south-coast outfit.
Garcia played for Barcelona for six years and has also coached their youth team before guiding Maccabi to the league title last season.
"Brighton are one of the most exciting clubs in Europe and the potential here is very good," added Garcia.
"The squad is strong and the footballing set-up is excellent. The aim is to continue the good progress that has been made in recent seasons.
"Pre-season preparations are going well and, like the supporters, I am looking forward to an exciting season."
The moves of coach Ruben Martinez and fitness coach Juan Torrijo Navaro in leaving Maccabi and joining Garcia at Brighton have also been confirmed.
Former Seagulls left-back Nathan Jones has also returned to the team as assistant head coach.
"The club has made significant progress in the past three seasons, and our aim is to continue this progress under Oscar's guidance," said Brighton chairman Tony Bloom.
"His footballing principles and philosophies will ensure we continue to play with the style and in the way our fans have become accustomed."
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This article is such a non event that it tempted you to look at it and post a non event statement.
Im glad they wrote this article because it actually happened. I was happy to open the bbc sport page today and see "kevin phillips signs one year deal" and "oscar garcia signs for brighton" instead of "moyes insists rooney isnt for sale"
Happy to see more actual football news
Poyet still has some man management to learn, but he is definitely better than the old dinosaur managers in the Prem.
Garcia is a winner and Brighton have another chance to show ball skills are better than hoof and run.
Fact is, no-one knows, so to accuse Gus of doing something he shouldn't have or the club screwing over an individual is merely behaving in the guise of tabloid ignorance.
@18 - I don't think we're the biggest club in the Championship, but we have the potential to be one of the biggest.
By modern standards BHAFC are the biggest club in the Championship. We now have an ex-barca coach to go with our Barca-like playing style.
I think we're very much in the media's eye, because we're going places in a big way. People are very interested in us and talking about us. Watch us, we play probably the best football in England. When we're promoted, we'll tear the prem a new one. B-)
I am a Spurs fan but I still think the championship has some big clubs in it and its really exiting and competitive.
Hope this guy works for Brighton but you already had a good manager.
20TH JULY 2013 - 12:30
why open a comments section on this article. Who cares??
You did