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Mickey Harte’s 18-year spell as manager of Tyrone’s senior soccer team has ended, and the three-time winner from Ireland confirmed that he has retired.
After much activity in recent days, Mickey Harte has decided to end his long and successful tenure as Tyrone. Tonight he informed his players that he was retiring as Gaelic football’s longest-serving coach.
Four management positions are expected to become vacant in the coming weeks and will be filled subsequently. These include senior, under-20 and junior soccer positions, along with the senior hurling position, which were renewed for three-year terms at the end of 2017 and expire at the end of this season.
In recent days there was a lot of speculation about whether the highly successful manager would seek to be part of the process to find a manager by 2021.
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A member of his backroom team withdrew from Tyrone’s WhatsApp group of gamers earlier this week, adding to the uncertainty.
Tyrone’s reports last night suggested that there would be no one-year extension to the existing tenure, although Harte had not made any public statements at the time.
It appears that the senior soccer manager position is about to undergo a competitive selection process and, rather than letting his name advance for another term in office, seeking nominations from clubs and undergoing an interview process, Harte now he has made the decision to resign.
Having recently come to the end of an extended three-year term following his re-election in 2017, Harte had little to say about his future following his early exit from the championship to Donegal. “I haven’t considered anything about that at this point,” he said.
But after a meeting of the county board administration this week, and a multi-party consultation, the man from Errigal Ciaran has decided to step aside.
Harte has been in charge of the Tyrone team since their first win in Ireland in 2003.
In that time, he has collected six impressive Ulster Senior Championship titles and three All-Irelands.
Ireland’s last victory came 12 years ago, while their last appearance in the Irish final at Croke Park ended with a clear beating from Dublin in 2018.
With ultra-talented forwards like Mattie Donnelly, Cathal McShane, Conor McKenna and Darragh Canavan, Darren McCurry and Mark Bradley all available for selection in 2021, all eyes will be on the next county manager to see if a different approach can help. the team to recover. the glory days.
Fergal Logan, a former All-Ireland Under-21 coach, appears to be one of the leading candidates.
It is understood that Logan’s coach on that team, the legendary Peter Canavan, is not in the frame to seek any position in the next few years.
The changing of the guard will be a seismic moment for the county after the most successful manager in its history has stepped aside.
For much of the past 10 years, Harte didn’t always have the star quality to turn to on offense and instead developed a competent team on the fast break with strike-backs capable of scoring across the field.
His repositioning of Mattie Donnelly and Cathal McShane gave the team an additional cut in the past two seasons, but Harte was left without McShane for this year’s Championship through injury.
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