Briggs joins Liverpool as Individual Development Coach
Aaron Briggs: Worked for Manchester City for nine years
Written by Training Ground Guru —
Former Manchester City and AS Monaco Coach-Analyst Aaron Briggs has joined Liverpool as First Team Individual Development Coach.
The 37-year-old replaces Vitor Matos, who left the role this summer after almost five years and is now assistant to Pep Lijnders at RB Salzburg.
Matos had succeeded Lijnders in the Individual Development role and worked closely with players making the transition from Academy to First Team at Liverpool.
Briggs is a UEFA Pro Licence holder who started his career as an Analyst, with Blackpool, Preston and then Manchester City. In total he spent nine years at City and progressed to become Senior First Team Performance Analyst.
This is where he worked with Pedro Marques, who was Performance Analyst and then Global Lead for Football Performance for the whole City Football Group. The Portuguese is now Director of Football Development at Liverpool.
After City, Briggs became a pioneer of the Coach-Analyst role, which is now becoming prevalent in elite football. At AS Monaco he was Tactical Analysis Coach, Assistant and Head of Methodology, before becoming Assistant at Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga.
For the last four months Briggs has been working as a consultant with UEFA, supporting the Technical Observer and Analysis Programme led by Atle Rosseland. This involved working closely with UEFA’s analysts on match nights to ensure coaching topics were collected in collaboration with their Technical Observers.
Briggs is the fourth addition to Arne Slot’s new backroom team at Anfield, following the arrivals of Assistant Sipke Hulshoff, Lead Performance Coach Ruben Peeters and Head of First Team Goalkeeper Coaching Fabian Otte.
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