Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed also known as Ahmed Gaab (Arabic: أحمد محمد أحمد; born 22 February 1980) is a Somali

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coach and former player.

Coaching career

After starting at a very young age on several positions in Somali Football Federation's observation department under the guidance of then-Federation President Abdegani Saeed Arab, who hired him because of his coaching knowledge of football, he then became head coach of the

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and technical adviser of the Federation. He achieved his professional coaching licence as first Swiss-Somali born coach in Germany. He previously managed the

FC Wyler Bern Youth A Team and BSC Young Boys Youth team in Berne Switzerland. In February 2015, he was appointed as the head coach of the

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. In March 2017, he was appointed as the coach of the Barbadian national team.

References

1980 births Living people Somalian men's footballers Somalian football managers Somalian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate soccer coaches in the United States Virgin Islands Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland FC Thun players Somalia men's international footballers Men's association football defenders Expatriate men's footballers in Barbados Somalian expatriate football managers Somalian expatriate sportspeople in Barbados Somalian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Virgin Islands Place of birth missing (living people) {{Somalia-footy-bio-stub