Former Azkals coach Des Bulpin is a candidate to become coach of Ugandan club SC Villa.
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31 October 2011
Des Bulpin to Dorchester ?
Former Philippines coach Des Bulpin are one of the candidates as coach for Dorchester Town. Bulpin was recently coach for Indian U21/U23 team before he was sacked.
Dorseth Echo
Dorseth Echo
08 August 2010
Villaflor: All it takes is one visionary
By Noel S. Villaflor
ON a warm Saturday morning on an unkempt patch of grass, dozens of Cebuano children had an experience of a lifetime: being trained by members of the Philippine Men’s National Team in a free football clinic.
Team manager Dan Palami brought five core players—including team captain Ali Borromeo and Emilio Caligdong—to help development organization Global Exchange with its signature campaign to send millions of children to school through football.
“The Men’s National Team is aware of its social responsibilities,” said Palami, who spends his own fortune in running the national team.
Asked why he does it, the unassuming president of the Leyte Football Association said: “I’ve always felt that the private sector should be involved.”
Palami’s dedication to the sport is beyond question, as he runs the team like a professional club.
Right now, the team’s energies are geared towards the AFC Suzuki Cup that kicks off on Oct. 20. A week before that, the team will join a tournament in Chinese Taipei on Oct. 8 to 14.
One of Palami’s most pressing concerns is finding a head coach, following the surprise resignation of Englishman Des Bulpin last month.
Palami clarified that Bulpin still serves as the Philippine team’s consultant and “continues to communicate with the coaching staff, with Edwin Cabalida serving as acting head coach.”
Palami left Bulpin’s departure at that, and zeroed in on finding his replacement.
“We now have a shortlist of head coaches from the UK, US, Italy and Spain,” Palami said. “We want somebody experienced in coaching ranked clubs.”
“By hiring foreign coaches, we get to transfer knowledge from experienced foreign coaches to Filipino coaches, who are actually qualified but simply lack experience,” said the team manager, adding that the national team can expect a new coach by September.
In agreeing to manage and finance the team, Palami told the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) to give the National Team Management Office “autonomy.”
“We want to operate independently,” he says. “So far, the PFF has been respecting our wishes.”
“We want to make sure we’re focused on our short to medium-term objectives of raising the Philippine team’s FIFA rankings by winning international competitions,” Palami said.
So what’s his long-term goal?
“Qualifying for the World Cup 2018,” Palami said, with a wry smile, and left it at that.
Sun Star Cebu
ON a warm Saturday morning on an unkempt patch of grass, dozens of Cebuano children had an experience of a lifetime: being trained by members of the Philippine Men’s National Team in a free football clinic.
Team manager Dan Palami brought five core players—including team captain Ali Borromeo and Emilio Caligdong—to help development organization Global Exchange with its signature campaign to send millions of children to school through football.
“The Men’s National Team is aware of its social responsibilities,” said Palami, who spends his own fortune in running the national team.
Asked why he does it, the unassuming president of the Leyte Football Association said: “I’ve always felt that the private sector should be involved.”
Palami’s dedication to the sport is beyond question, as he runs the team like a professional club.
Right now, the team’s energies are geared towards the AFC Suzuki Cup that kicks off on Oct. 20. A week before that, the team will join a tournament in Chinese Taipei on Oct. 8 to 14.
One of Palami’s most pressing concerns is finding a head coach, following the surprise resignation of Englishman Des Bulpin last month.
Palami clarified that Bulpin still serves as the Philippine team’s consultant and “continues to communicate with the coaching staff, with Edwin Cabalida serving as acting head coach.”
Palami left Bulpin’s departure at that, and zeroed in on finding his replacement.
“We now have a shortlist of head coaches from the UK, US, Italy and Spain,” Palami said. “We want somebody experienced in coaching ranked clubs.”
“By hiring foreign coaches, we get to transfer knowledge from experienced foreign coaches to Filipino coaches, who are actually qualified but simply lack experience,” said the team manager, adding that the national team can expect a new coach by September.
In agreeing to manage and finance the team, Palami told the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) to give the National Team Management Office “autonomy.”
“We want to operate independently,” he says. “So far, the PFF has been respecting our wishes.”
“We want to make sure we’re focused on our short to medium-term objectives of raising the Philippine team’s FIFA rankings by winning international competitions,” Palami said.
So what’s his long-term goal?
“Qualifying for the World Cup 2018,” Palami said, with a wry smile, and left it at that.
Sun Star Cebu
25 July 2010
Villaflor: English coach leaves Azkals flatfooted
By Noel S. Villaflor
UNCONFIRMED reports online say Englishman Des Bulpin, has quit as coach of the Philippine Men’s National Team.
Wikipedia, though, quickly listed as “vacant” the entry under the team’s head coach, while another entry says he now “manages India’s Under-19 team.”
Among conflicting reports why Bulpin resigned is that politics made it difficult for him to run the team.
Blogger Louie Encabo, who runs the site usapangfootball.webs.com, writes: “Des’
decision was made simpler when a lucrative India U-19 team coaching position was offered to him. Not only do they have better facilities but they have an organized Federation as well.”
India having an “organized Federation,” in Encabo’s words, suggests the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) is not. Bulpin should now know that firsthand.
Some observers might find Bulpin’s resignation shocking, but I’m actually even more surprised that he lasted this long as Philippine coach, a job he himself described to a sports scribe as “a massive challenge.”
But finding the challenge too massive even for his Englishman’s wits, he flees faster than one can say “bollocks.” To hell with that one-year contract he signed in November last year, and never mind if the men’s team is joining the Asean Football Cup qualifiers this October.
(As an Azkals fan, it’s hard to forgive Bulpin for leaving at the height of the team’s preparations. An honorable man would have finished the job. The PFF mafia, on the other hand, is beyond redemption.)
This development must be annoying to a columnist for a national broadsheet, who wrote glowingly about Bulpin last February, even recklessly quoting a source, “He (Bulpin) may not be the best coach out there but he’s much better than anyone locally.”
(PFF technical director Aries Caslib took exception to the discriminatory statement, and was quick to reply with a list of Filipino coaches who are fit for the job.)
I pity the two benefactors, one of whom sits as team manager, who bankrolled Bulpin’s expenses, while the PFF need not spend a single cent by “outsourcing” its responsibilities of handling the national team.
Even more pathetic, Bulpin’s departure would give the PFF a convenient excuse should the team fare poorly in October.
But I hope not.
(nsvillaflor@gmail.com)
Sun Star Cebu
Comment : I posted in my blog already on May 21 that Des Bulpin was on the way to India.
UNCONFIRMED reports online say Englishman Des Bulpin, has quit as coach of the Philippine Men’s National Team.
Wikipedia, though, quickly listed as “vacant” the entry under the team’s head coach, while another entry says he now “manages India’s Under-19 team.”
Among conflicting reports why Bulpin resigned is that politics made it difficult for him to run the team.
Blogger Louie Encabo, who runs the site usapangfootball.webs.com, writes: “Des’
decision was made simpler when a lucrative India U-19 team coaching position was offered to him. Not only do they have better facilities but they have an organized Federation as well.”
India having an “organized Federation,” in Encabo’s words, suggests the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) is not. Bulpin should now know that firsthand.
Some observers might find Bulpin’s resignation shocking, but I’m actually even more surprised that he lasted this long as Philippine coach, a job he himself described to a sports scribe as “a massive challenge.”
But finding the challenge too massive even for his Englishman’s wits, he flees faster than one can say “bollocks.” To hell with that one-year contract he signed in November last year, and never mind if the men’s team is joining the Asean Football Cup qualifiers this October.
(As an Azkals fan, it’s hard to forgive Bulpin for leaving at the height of the team’s preparations. An honorable man would have finished the job. The PFF mafia, on the other hand, is beyond redemption.)
This development must be annoying to a columnist for a national broadsheet, who wrote glowingly about Bulpin last February, even recklessly quoting a source, “He (Bulpin) may not be the best coach out there but he’s much better than anyone locally.”
(PFF technical director Aries Caslib took exception to the discriminatory statement, and was quick to reply with a list of Filipino coaches who are fit for the job.)
I pity the two benefactors, one of whom sits as team manager, who bankrolled Bulpin’s expenses, while the PFF need not spend a single cent by “outsourcing” its responsibilities of handling the national team.
Even more pathetic, Bulpin’s departure would give the PFF a convenient excuse should the team fare poorly in October.
But I hope not.
(nsvillaflor@gmail.com)
Sun Star Cebu
Comment : I posted in my blog already on May 21 that Des Bulpin was on the way to India.
20 July 2010
Report from Men`s NT training camp in Leyte
TACLOBAN CITY – While the world is waiting who among the teams competing in the FIFA World Cup will be declared as champion in this year’s event that is being held in South Africa, the men’s football team of the Philippines is busy practicing for their upcoming international competition, in fact they are here in the city of Tacloban to have a tune-up game with local football players and a selection of football players from various teams in the country.
In a visit to their tune-up game, which is being held at the Leyte Sports Development Center better known as “grandstand”, of the 31 members of the Philippine team along with the selection team called as the Stallions, they are having a great time in the field trying to out-score each other in the playing field of the grandstand, which was rehabilitated in 2008 for the Palarong Pambansa.
The tune-up game of the Philippine Team in the city of Tacloban is the first ever practice that the Philippine Men’s Football Team since the grandstand was constructed.
In an interview with the coach of football national team, he said that the tune-up game is way of determining and examining the performance of his players in the field while playing.
“We would like to know what are the things that we need to improve with my men while they are inside playing so that they can compete well in the international competition,” Coach Broax said.
In the first day of the tune-up game between the national team and the selection team, the coach said that the national team is doing well but the team still needs to deliver a good finishing touch to deliver a point for their team.
“Marami tayong crosses compared sa kalaban, problema lang yung finishing kung paano nila magagawa ang conversion to goal,” the coach explained.
“Maganda naman ang build up pero importante ang crosses kasi 90% of the goals come from crosses,” he added.
Coach Broax added that aside from the build game that they are doing to improve the performance of the national team they also hire a foreign coach to help them in improving the performance of their team players especially by sharing his experience in international games
“Desmund Dulpin, a British coach who had work with some British premier league, was hired by the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) and Mr. Dan Palami to help us in training the players,” Coach Broax added.
Aside from the British coach, the national football team of the Philippines has also two Sudanese players who are on the process of naturalization of their birth and two British players who have Filipino lineage.
More : Leyte Samar Daily Express
In a visit to their tune-up game, which is being held at the Leyte Sports Development Center better known as “grandstand”, of the 31 members of the Philippine team along with the selection team called as the Stallions, they are having a great time in the field trying to out-score each other in the playing field of the grandstand, which was rehabilitated in 2008 for the Palarong Pambansa.
The tune-up game of the Philippine Team in the city of Tacloban is the first ever practice that the Philippine Men’s Football Team since the grandstand was constructed.
In an interview with the coach of football national team, he said that the tune-up game is way of determining and examining the performance of his players in the field while playing.
“We would like to know what are the things that we need to improve with my men while they are inside playing so that they can compete well in the international competition,” Coach Broax said.
In the first day of the tune-up game between the national team and the selection team, the coach said that the national team is doing well but the team still needs to deliver a good finishing touch to deliver a point for their team.
“Marami tayong crosses compared sa kalaban, problema lang yung finishing kung paano nila magagawa ang conversion to goal,” the coach explained.
“Maganda naman ang build up pero importante ang crosses kasi 90% of the goals come from crosses,” he added.
Coach Broax added that aside from the build game that they are doing to improve the performance of the national team they also hire a foreign coach to help them in improving the performance of their team players especially by sharing his experience in international games
“Desmund Dulpin, a British coach who had work with some British premier league, was hired by the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) and Mr. Dan Palami to help us in training the players,” Coach Broax added.
Aside from the British coach, the national football team of the Philippines has also two Sudanese players who are on the process of naturalization of their birth and two British players who have Filipino lineage.
More : Leyte Samar Daily Express
Bulpin to take charge of India U-19 side, meets AIFF officials
NEW DELHI: Former Philippines national team manager Desmond Bulpin is set to take charge of the Indian Under-19 football side which will be fielded in the I-League from the coming season, according to AIFF sources.
Englishman Bulpin was recommended to the All India Football Federation by the national coach and Bulpin's compatriot Bob Houghton for the job.
Bulpin was former manager of English Championship side Queens Park Rangers and youth team coach at English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur where he discovered England international strikers like Peter Crouch and Jermain Defoe.
He met with All India Football Federation top brass at the AIFF headquarters on Monday and will be in Goa on Tuesday to have a first interaction with the players now based there.
"Bulpin is in the country and he will take formal charge shortly. He will meet the players in Goa," a top AIFF source said.
59-year-old Bulpin has more than 25 years of coaching experience at the top level and he had a stint with top Singapore side Tampine Rovers.
Before leaving for a two-month training tour of 29 national players to Portugal for the preparations of 2011 Asian Cup, Houghton had said that Bulpin will take over the Under-19 side soon.
The Under-19 side plays an important part in AIFF's scheme of things with the federation planning to groom the players for the 2018 World Cup qualifiers.
Englishman Bulpin was recommended to the All India Football Federation by the national coach and Bulpin's compatriot Bob Houghton for the job.
Bulpin was former manager of English Championship side Queens Park Rangers and youth team coach at English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur where he discovered England international strikers like Peter Crouch and Jermain Defoe.
He met with All India Football Federation top brass at the AIFF headquarters on Monday and will be in Goa on Tuesday to have a first interaction with the players now based there.
"Bulpin is in the country and he will take formal charge shortly. He will meet the players in Goa," a top AIFF source said.
59-year-old Bulpin has more than 25 years of coaching experience at the top level and he had a stint with top Singapore side Tampine Rovers.
Before leaving for a two-month training tour of 29 national players to Portugal for the preparations of 2011 Asian Cup, Houghton had said that Bulpin will take over the Under-19 side soon.
The Under-19 side plays an important part in AIFF's scheme of things with the federation planning to groom the players for the 2018 World Cup qualifiers.
30 June 2010
Des Bulpin to India
Indian national coach Bob Houghton has told Indian newspaper News of India that Des Bulpin , Philippines NT coach will be the new Indian U19 coach.
Times of India
Times of India
21 May 2010
Des Bulpin to India ?
New Delhi: Top English manager Desmond Bulpin, widely credited with the development of Peter Crouch into a high-class striker, may be given the responsibility of coaching the All India Football Federation (AIFF) junior team to be fielded in the I-League next season.
A former coach at Queens Park Rangers and Tottenham Hotspur, Bulpin is currently in charge of the Philippines national team. According to sources, national coach Bob Houghton has recommended Bulpin’s name for coaching the team to be based in Delhi.
The AIFF has recently selected 24 junior footballers who would be fielded as a club side in the I-League for a four-year period. The move, federation officials claimed, would help prepare the juniors for the 2018 World Cup qualifiers that immediately follow the 2014 World Cup. The team are likely to be kept outside the I-League relegation bracket.
“Bob is extremely keen to see Bulpin handle the junior team in the I-League,” sources said. “Both the coaches worked together in Uzbekistan for some time. Bob has high regard for Bulpin’s ability,” he added.
Bulpin, 59, served as the youth team coach at Tottenham and discovered international strikers like Crouch and Jermain Defoe.
Bulpin was on Gerry Francis’s coaching staff at Tottenham in the mid-90s when Crouch was a struggling first-year trainee. He told Crouch that one day the lanky striker would play upfront for England. He took keen interest in developing Crouch into a quality striker.
The Telegraph
A former coach at Queens Park Rangers and Tottenham Hotspur, Bulpin is currently in charge of the Philippines national team. According to sources, national coach Bob Houghton has recommended Bulpin’s name for coaching the team to be based in Delhi.
The AIFF has recently selected 24 junior footballers who would be fielded as a club side in the I-League for a four-year period. The move, federation officials claimed, would help prepare the juniors for the 2018 World Cup qualifiers that immediately follow the 2014 World Cup. The team are likely to be kept outside the I-League relegation bracket.
“Bob is extremely keen to see Bulpin handle the junior team in the I-League,” sources said. “Both the coaches worked together in Uzbekistan for some time. Bob has high regard for Bulpin’s ability,” he added.
Bulpin, 59, served as the youth team coach at Tottenham and discovered international strikers like Crouch and Jermain Defoe.
Bulpin was on Gerry Francis’s coaching staff at Tottenham in the mid-90s when Crouch was a struggling first-year trainee. He told Crouch that one day the lanky striker would play upfront for England. He took keen interest in developing Crouch into a quality striker.
The Telegraph
01 April 2010
No discrimination, football coach urges
Philippine Football Federation (PFF) technical director Jose Ariston Caslib, who was once the national team coach, took exception to a statement recently quoted in this column that “(Desmond Bulpin) may not be the best coach out there but he’s much better than anyone locally.”
For the record, the quote wasn’t mine. It was from a source whose identity will be undisclosed. The source is an avid football aficionado, supporter of the National Capital Region association and an outspoken critic of how the sport is managed by the PFF.
It was the source’s way of challenging local coaches to show up Bulpin, the Briton who was appointed national coach last year. To react to the source’s comment in a negative fashion betrays an insecurity that only magnifies the PFF’s failures.
Caslib, in a letter to this writer, listed several Filipino coaches “who are capable of managing the national team and deliver victories for the Philippines.”
Here are Caslib’s nominees: Philstar
“This is the calendar of activities lined up for the development of Filipino coaches this year – AFC ‘C’ license courses – Cebu, April 5-17, Davao, May 6-13, AFC ‘B’ license course, Metro Manila, May 16-June 5, FIFA women’s football technical course, Metro Manila, June 21-25, FIFA instructors course, Metro Manila, July 26-Aug. 6 and AFC ‘A’ license course, Metro Manila, Nov. 1-Dec. 2.
For the record, the quote wasn’t mine. It was from a source whose identity will be undisclosed. The source is an avid football aficionado, supporter of the National Capital Region association and an outspoken critic of how the sport is managed by the PFF.
It was the source’s way of challenging local coaches to show up Bulpin, the Briton who was appointed national coach last year. To react to the source’s comment in a negative fashion betrays an insecurity that only magnifies the PFF’s failures.
Caslib, in a letter to this writer, listed several Filipino coaches “who are capable of managing the national team and deliver victories for the Philippines.”
Here are Caslib’s nominees: Philstar
“This is the calendar of activities lined up for the development of Filipino coaches this year – AFC ‘C’ license courses – Cebu, April 5-17, Davao, May 6-13, AFC ‘B’ license course, Metro Manila, May 16-June 5, FIFA women’s football technical course, Metro Manila, June 21-25, FIFA instructors course, Metro Manila, July 26-Aug. 6 and AFC ‘A’ license course, Metro Manila, Nov. 1-Dec. 2.
10 November 2009
Des Bulpin - Philippines New NT coach
Des Bulpin, Philippines new coach was the one who discovered Peter Crouch and Jermain Defoe when he was Tottenham Hotspurs Youth team coach.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-494706/Crouch-My-debt-Spurs.html
Des Bulpin also worked with Uzbekistan NT.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/l/leicester_city/7120516.stm
Des Bulpin alsobeen working as assistant coach with Gerry Francis in QPR , Ian Holloway in Leicester and Plymouth and been asistant coach in Stockport
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-494706/Crouch-My-debt-Spurs.html
Des Bulpin also worked with Uzbekistan NT.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/l/leicester_city/7120516.stm
Des Bulpin alsobeen working as assistant coach with Gerry Francis in QPR , Ian Holloway in Leicester and Plymouth and been asistant coach in Stockport
09 November 2009
Who is Des Bulpin ?
Des(mond) Bulpin is the new Men`s NT coach.
From Weymouth FC website :
"Des Bulpin: The former Weymouth director of football is a vastly experienced coach following spells at Plymouth Argyle, Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers."
http://www.theterras.co.uk/website/news%202009/05%20may/Who%20will%20be%20the%20next%20Terras%20boss.htm
He has also been assistant coach for Stockport City and coaching in Leicester City and Tottenham
From Weymouth FC website :
"Des Bulpin: The former Weymouth director of football is a vastly experienced coach following spells at Plymouth Argyle, Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers."
http://www.theterras.co.uk/website/news%202009/05%20may/Who%20will%20be%20the%20next%20Terras%20boss.htm
He has also been assistant coach for Stockport City and coaching in Leicester City and Tottenham
UK coach to train football team
The Philippine Football Federation (PFF), headed by Mari Martinez, has hired a veteran British football coach to handle the program and training of the national team in the hope of energizing the sport in the country.
Martinez said Desmond Bulpin arrived in the country two weeks ago during which he observed and assessed the training of the members of the RP team pool for three days before finalizing his agreement with the PFF to head the country’s coaching staff.
Martinez said football enthusiasts Dan Palami and Henry Tsai will shoulder the expenses of Bulpin during his stay here in Manila.
The country is lagging behind even in the standard of South East Asian competition but Martinez believes the arrival Bulpin will help the Philippines recover from a spate of misfortunes – the latest of which was during the Asian Under-16 tournament.
Public awareness and the right people to run the daily affair of the team, Martinez stressed, are needed to keep football going in the country.
“Mr. Bulpin would be a big help for us in attaining our goals for the future of Philippine football. Football is the world’s most popular sport and it’s high time for us to improve our chances in competition locally and internationally,” said Martinez.
Bulpin is coming next week and will be bringing with him 25 years of experience in various capacities in major leagues in Europe.
The British coach, according to Martinez, was impressed with the work ethic and passion of the members of the national pool.
“I’m excited to work here and I enjoy the challenge seeing talent progress,” said Bulpin.
Though Bulpin admits that it will entail a lot of hard work and time to whip up the Filipinos into a highly-competitive team, he would like to face the challenge head on.
“It will also be a lot of fun,” he added.
PFF also plans to hold an exhibition game between the future RP team against a Fil-British team (Philippine United Football Club) next year.
Source : Manila Bulletin
Martinez said Desmond Bulpin arrived in the country two weeks ago during which he observed and assessed the training of the members of the RP team pool for three days before finalizing his agreement with the PFF to head the country’s coaching staff.
Martinez said football enthusiasts Dan Palami and Henry Tsai will shoulder the expenses of Bulpin during his stay here in Manila.
The country is lagging behind even in the standard of South East Asian competition but Martinez believes the arrival Bulpin will help the Philippines recover from a spate of misfortunes – the latest of which was during the Asian Under-16 tournament.
Public awareness and the right people to run the daily affair of the team, Martinez stressed, are needed to keep football going in the country.
“Mr. Bulpin would be a big help for us in attaining our goals for the future of Philippine football. Football is the world’s most popular sport and it’s high time for us to improve our chances in competition locally and internationally,” said Martinez.
Bulpin is coming next week and will be bringing with him 25 years of experience in various capacities in major leagues in Europe.
The British coach, according to Martinez, was impressed with the work ethic and passion of the members of the national pool.
“I’m excited to work here and I enjoy the challenge seeing talent progress,” said Bulpin.
Though Bulpin admits that it will entail a lot of hard work and time to whip up the Filipinos into a highly-competitive team, he would like to face the challenge head on.
“It will also be a lot of fun,” he added.
PFF also plans to hold an exhibition game between the future RP team against a Fil-British team (Philippine United Football Club) next year.
Source : Manila Bulletin
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