Motherwell boss tips Walter Smith for key development role
Motherwell manager Craig Brown has tipped Walter Smith to fill a key development role for the Scottish Football Association when the he steps down as boss of Scottish Premier League giants Rangers at the end of the season.
Smith will leave the role in June 2011 and had been widely expected to retire, but the 62-year-old recently indicated that he would like to keep working in the football world.
The SFA, which previously employed Smith as Scotland national team manager, has revealed that it may create a 'performance director' role to aid the development of the sport within Scotland.
Brown, whose side were defeated 4-1 by Rangers in their last meeting on Saturday 16 October, has said that Smith would be the perfect candidate to fill such a role.
He told reporters, "He would be absolutely perfect for it. You couldn't get a better performance director.
"You couldn't get a better guy to develop the future of Scottish football, because he's played, coached, and managed at every level. He was assistant coach of the Scottish youth team with Andy Roxburgh, and he was assistant to Alex Ferguson, Archie Knox and
me at (the FIFA World Cup with Scotland in) Mexico in 1986.
"He's done everything, and not only that, he's succeeded."
Smith has enjoyed trophy-laden career as a manager since hanging up his boots as a player in 1980. In his first spell in charge of Rangers during the 1990s, he won seven league titles in a row.
Following stints in charge of English Premier League side Everton and the Scotland national team, he returned to Ibrox in 2007 and has won a further two championships. Smith has also guided the Glasgow-based side to five Scottish Cups and five Scottish League
Cups.
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