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Chelsea are set to promote, Eddie Newton, to their coaching staff after confirming the appointment of Frank Lampard as manager, AllNigeriaSoccer reports.

The former Blues midfielder who is of Nigerian descent, is presently working for the club by managing the career development of their on-loan players.

Newton is now expected to return to a role he previously had at Stamford Bridge under Roberto Di Matteo.

Lampard will bring assistants Jody Morris and Chris Jones, who both previously worked at Chelsea, with him from Derby County but the club want to add numbers to their coaching staff following the departure of Maurizio Sarri last month.

The Italian had an entourage of 11 assistants, who have all left with him, while Gianfranco Zola is also expected to move on after rejecting Chelsea’s offer of a new deal.

Newton has over a decade of coaching experience, starting with MK Dons in 2008-09 where he was Roberto Di Matteo’s assistant. The two of them would wind up working together at West Brom, and then at Chelsea as well. Since then, save for a brief spell as interim manager Guus Hiddink’s assistant in 2015-16, Newton had been working behind the scenes at the club, mostly as the main conduit between Chelsea and the Loan Army

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We don’t know him as a Nigerian

Edward John Ikem Newton
(born 13 December 1971)

is an English former professional footballer and was the assistant manager of Premier League side Chelsea to manager Roberto Di Matteo before the latter was replaced by Rafael Benítez. In December 2015 he was reappointed as assistant manager to interim manager Guus Hiddink.

Eddie Newton

Personal information
Full nameEdward John Ikem Newton
Date of birth13 December 1971 (age 47)

Place of birthHammersmith, England
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[1]
Playing positionMidfielder
Club information
Current team
Chelsea (assistant manager)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1990–1999Chelsea 165 (
1992 → Cardiff City (loan) 18 (4)
1999–2000Birmingham City 4 (0)
2000Oxford United 7 (0)
2000Barnet 4 (0)
2000–2001Hayes 6 (0)
Total204(12)
National team
1993England U21 2 (0)
Teams managed
2008–2009Milton Keynes Dons (assistant manager)
2009–2011West Bromwich Albion (assistant manager)
2012Chelsea (assistant manager)
2015–Chelsea (assistant manager)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
As a player, he was a defensive midfielder from 1990 until 2001 notably for Chelsea where he scored in the 1997 FA Cup final. He also played in the Football League for Cardiff City, Birmingham City, Oxford United and Barnet and in the Conference National for Hayes. He also earnt two caps for the England U21 side.

Playing career


Newton was born in Hammersmith, London. After making his way through the Chelsea youth system he was loaned out to Cardiff City in January 1992, making his debut in a 4–0 win over Chesterfield. Cardiff fell three points short of a play-off place and Newton returned to Chelsea. He played for Chelsea in the 1994 FA Cup Final, but his foul on Denis Irwin in the second half saw him cautioned and led to Manchester United receiving a penalty which was scored by Eric Cantona. He then made a defensive error which allowed United's Mark Hughes to make it 3–0.

Chelsea went on to lose 4–0 but United had won the double to qualify for the European Cup, allowing Chelsea to play European football for the first time since the 1970s with a place in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Newton was part of the team that reached the semi-finals of the 1994–95 competition and also the semi-finals of the 1995–96 FA Cup.

Newton scored Chelsea's second, clinching, goal in the 1997 FA Cup Final to seal a 2–0 win over Middlesbrough. He won the Cup Winners' Cup and League Cup with the club a year later, but was thereafter hampered in his quest for a starting place by injuries and manager Gianluca Vialli's signing of French World Cup-winning midfielder Didier Deschamps.

He joined Birmingham City in July 1999 on a free transfer before spending short spells at various lower-league clubs, including Oxford United and Barnet. He retired due to a knee injury and converted to Islam.

Management and coaching career

A few years after finishing his football career Newton went to coach a kids school football team at Mount carmel primary school, Ealing, London. He was the head coach and coached many different age groups, including former goalkeeping legend Dave Beasant's nephew, Delroy. He also trained Joel Baker of St Saviours.

On 2 July 2008 Newton was appointed assistant manager to Roberto Di Matteo at Milton Keynes Dons. A year later, on 30 June 2009, Di Matteo was appointed head coach of West Bromwich Albion and it was reported that Newton would be joining him at the club as assistant head coach.[4] When Di Matteo was relieved of his duties in January 2011, Newton also left the club.

On 5 March 2012 it was announced that Newton would be joining the back room staff at Chelsea, supporting Roberto Di Matteo. Di Matteo had just taken over as interim Head Coach at Chelsea following the departure of André Villas-Boas. In his short time as assistant manager at Chelsea he has won the UEFA Champions League and FA Cup. He currently helps to oversee the progress of Chelsea's loan players after having been assistant first team coach under Guus Hiddink in for the second half of the previous season.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Newton

Good one...

Chelsea has always been Nigeria/Negro friendly

Tolexander:
We don’t know him as a Nigerian

that was how we didn't know anthony joshua when he came to our olympic camp

But today as a star we celebrate him anthony oluwafemi joshua

robosky02:
that was how we didn't know anthony joshua when he came to our olympic camp

But today as a star we celebrate him anthony oluwafemi joshua

Anthony was part and associated with us, the reason he came to train with us to represent us. Though he was rejected.

Unlike this Newton.

Eddy Ikem Newton I wish you the best in this new challenge in your career.

Tolexander:
Anthony was part and associated with us, the reason he came to train with us to represent us. Though he was rejected.

Unlike this Newton.

Nigerian-born