Dan Ashworth, Date of Birth

Dan Ashworth

English footballer

Date of Birth: 06-Mar-1971

Profession: association football player

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Dan Ashworth is an English former professional footballer, who began his career at Norwich City.
He studied at the College of West Anglia from 1987-1989.Ashworth continued to be involved with football after retiring as a player, and was appointed academy director at Peterborough United in 2000.
In 2001, he went on to become center of excellence director at Cambridge United until March 2004 went moved to West Bromwich Albion assisting youth team manager Aidy Boothroyd.
After Boothroyd's departure in the July of that year he took over as youth team manager until he was promoted to the club's sporting and technical director in December 2007.On 17 September 2012, Ashworth was appointed as the FA director of elite development.
He is one of the creators of the “England DNA”, an elite player development plan which aims “to help create winning senior teams, in the men’s and the women’s game.”In August 2018, it was reported that Ashworth has been shortlisted by Manchester United as a candidate for the technical director.In September 2018, it was announced that Ashworth had resigned his role with the FA, and would take up the post of Technical Director at Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion in spring 2019.