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John "Tucka" Trewick
John Trewick, who is now 47, played at the highest level as a professional for 18 years. Amidst the clubs he played for were West Bromwich Albion, Newcastle United, Birmingham City and Oxford United.
Since his playing career ended he has been coaching players from eight and nine years of age at Centres of Excellence and Academies to seniors and international players.
He was appointed first-team coach and caretaker manager at First Division West Bromwich Albion, replacing Steve Round.
But Trewick left The Hawthorns following Gary Megson's appointment as the new Baggies boss and joined Derby County
An Albion player through most of the 70's, John 'Tucka' Trewick worked with Albion helping players from the Youth and Reserve sides to the First Team. His move to Derby in January 2001 was a sad moment for many Baggies fans.
However another change of manager meant that Trewick was sacked from Derby.
Trewick said at the time: "As often happens, the first team coach is often a casualty as well and that's what proved to be the case. It was a classic case of me joining the right club at the wrong time."
Interviewed whilst at Derby County for Grorty Dick by Simon Wright, Trewick said
"I'm first team coach. No, not acting assistant manager or anything else. But what's in a title? There's just Colin Todd and myself and he's not looking to bring anybody else in. We get on really well together so it's fine. I'm really enjoying it and I've got a three-year contract which is about as secure as it gets in an insecure profession."
Asked what training qualifications he held,
"I hold the UEFA 'A' licence. I'm thinking about taking the new Pro Licence course. That's partly delivered over the Internet so that's a bit of problem to me as I'm the world's worst on the Net. It's a distance learning course over twelve months and it includes a couple of weekend seminars. Oh and I must visit a foreign club - like Juventus or Barcelona - tough one huh? - to study their coaching methods and then compile a report."
Obviously you work with the first team, but you must have had a peek at the Derby Academy?
"Well not really because they're completely separate and they train in a different ground. All the staff and players report to the old Baseball Ground? It's a bit shabby now but it's still a fantastic facility for the young lads. As I said, they have their own set-up and their link is with the reserve team coach. If they have any lads they want to push forward, it's him that they liaise with."
Recently he gave a One on One Skills Coaching course to the Evesham's junior section coaches.
The course run by Premier Skills and funded through the Open Colleges Network aims to give as much help, back-up and information to grass roots football.
Lasting 20 hours over two weekends, with both practical and classroom tuition, United's coaches were instructed on many issues including role and function of the coach, football philosophy, child protection, health and safety, diet and nutrition, analysis of individual players and teams, psychological factors and how to plan, prepare and deliver structured coaching sessions.
Simon Parry, chairman of Evesham United's junior section, said: "The course has been invaluable and, to have someone as experienced and knowledgeable as John Trewick instructing us, has been a real bonus. We all learnt a great deal and we will be putting it into practice."
John Trewick looks like he will be an excellent replacement for Richard O'Kelly.