Ex-Aston Villa winger agrees to return ‘home’ to Villa Park
Marc Albrighton has returned “home” to Aston Villa as an academy coach, according to John Percy of The Telegraph.
The journalist revealed that the 34-year-old will serve as a part-time coach at the club’s academy to “gain experience”, having called it quits on his playing career in August.
This marks Albrighton’s return to the Birmingham-based club ten years after he left them for Leicester City in 2014.
Marc Albrighton keen to gain coaching experience at Aston Villa
Like many other professional players, Albrighton is also looking to transition into a coach after hanging up his boots.
The former winger laid the foundations to becoming a coach as early as 2016, setting up the Marc Albrighton Centre of Development (BirminghamLive).
He started the youth coaching company with a view to being involved in grassroots football and has since seen it expand further.
It appears Albrighton is now ready to take coaching more seriously as he looks to gain experience at Aston Villa.
He first joined Villa at the age of eight and went on to make 102 senior appearances for the club before signing for Leicester, where he spent the rest of his career barring a loan spell at West Brom in 2023.
It remains to be seen if there is scope for Albrighton’s part-time role with the club’s academy to change into something more substantial at Villa Park.
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