Henry Stanley Rozario (born 22 April 1960) is an Indian professional

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and former

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. He was most recently the head coach of

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club

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. He managed top clubs in India with teams based in Kolkata, Goa, Shillong, Sikkim, Kerala, Pune and Bangaluru. He was also assistant coach with senior national team of India and other clubs for World Cup Qualifying, Olympic Qualifying,

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and other international competitions.

Coaching career

Born in

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, Stanley Rozario began his coaching career as coach of Services Team and Indian Army XI team in India. After spending many years as head coach of Army XI and Services, Rozario signed with the

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(

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) as assistant coach of the

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under

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in 2006. After another two years as assistant coach to India, Rozario signed as a full-time head coach at

East Bengal FC East Bengal Club, commonly referred to as East Bengal (), is an Indian professional multi-sport club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. It is best known for its professional men's football team that competes in the Indian Super League, the top fl ...

in the

. After one season though Rozario joined as head coach of Salgaocar where he lasted one year and promoted the team to top tier I League. Then he join as head coach of

Shillong Lajong FC Shillong Lajong FC (founded as Lajong SC) is an Indian professional football club based in Shillong, Meghalaya, that competes in the Shillong Premier League. The club was established in 1983 with the prime objective of improving the declining ...

in June 2009 and made the team to reach finals in

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. After a good performance with Shillong Lajong, Rozario was appointed as head coach of

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on 4 June 2010, which reached the finals in

and Calcutta League. He then signed with

United Sikkim FC United Sikkim Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Gangtok, Sikkim. Founded in 2011, the club usually competed in the Sikkim Premier Division League. United Sikkim is the only club from Sikkim to have played in the ...

in February 2011 and then he was head coach of Eagles FC Kerala for one season. On 4 November 2014 He was appointed as assistant coach of English coach

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to new entrants

Bharat FC Bharat FC (also known as Kalyani Bharat FC) was an Indian professional football team based in Pune, Maharashtra that competed in the I-League, then top tier of Indian football league system. The team was founded on 26 August 2014 by Kalyani Gr ...

. In 2017 Stanley Rozario joined as director of youth development of Ozone Football Academy. On 9 January 2019,

football club

announced Stanley as their head coach. In January 2021, it was announced that Aizawl has mutually parted ways with Rozario.

Statistics

Managerial statistics

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rozario, Stanley Indian football coaches Living people I-League managers United Sikkim F.C. managers 1960 births Indian football managers Aizawl FC managers Mohun Bagan AC managers East Bengal Club managers