Episode 16 - Ross Embleton Part One “Mr Football”

Episode 16 - Ross Embleton Part One “Mr Football”.

I talk to Ross about his current role as Head of Talent ID and Recruitment at West Ham United Academy.

We discuss how this differs from his previous role as Head of First Team Recruitment at Colchester United and where he first used data to manage his search and save time.

We go back to the start and him leaving school to work in the community for Leyton Orient, coaching kids and cleaning the changing room toilets. 

How he left Orient to go to work for Spurs and finding an unbelievable staff roster stacked full of experience and whom would act as mentors throughout his career.

We talk through his first senior role on the coaching staff of Swindon Town and it’s world apart from his Debden college campus and managing his unruly class.

Throughout Part one we touch on Leyton Orient but have a second parter that goes deeper into the place he rightly calls HIS club.

This is someone that has managed from the U9s to the EFL and is now super passionate about recruitment and promoting youth.

I hope you enjoy the episode and if in doubt “Turn it round the corner”.

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