Jaidi handed ambassadorial role at Saints (From Daily Echo)
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Jaidi handed ambassadorial role at Saints
5:10pm Monday 21st May 2012 in Saints News
Radhi Jaidi
Retiring Saints defender Radhi Jaidi has accepted an ambassadorial role at St Mary's to help develop the club's links in Africa.
The 36-year-old Tunisian is hanging up his boots this summer, after a long and successful playing career, but will remain with Southampton in a new capacity.
The popular centre half made 68 appearances for Saints, after signing in 2009 on a free transfer, but did not feature in the most recent campaign, with a knee injury wiping out much of his availability.
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Darkangelv2
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7:15pm Mon 21 May 12
Best of luck Ambassador. Bring us some awesome African talent home!
evettsj
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7:32pm Mon 21 May 12
evettsj
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7:32pm Mon 21 May 12
Jannersaint
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8:09pm Mon 21 May 12
One concern I have is the work permit issue. Reason loads of Africans go to Belgium, holland and France is the easier work permits. Not sure we will benefit that my h because of it. I expect we'll end up with a Belgium feeder club to loan them to before we can buy. I think we were in for drogba under one manager but he went to France because he couldn't come to us as a youngster.
A lot of us complain about immigration rules but try to accept allowances when it's our club and a talented kid.
S Pance
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8:55pm Mon 21 May 12
Red n White wrote:Remember that it was Charlie Miller from Southampton that is responsible for establishing modern football in Brazil!
Reading the OS, it seems like the club plans to open academies around the world and market Southampton and the 'Southampton Way'. Sounds a brilliant idea, as it says a lot of these players go to France, so why can't we bring them to Southampton instead.
Rahdi is an excellent choice and shows how serious Cortese and the Leibherr family are regarding the future of the club.
Confucious
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9:02pm Mon 21 May 12
magnette
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10:16pm Mon 21 May 12
Jesus_02
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12:45am Tue 22 May 12
Alicesdad
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9:20am Tue 22 May 12
magnette wrote:Absolutely !!
This is great. Cortese is really showing England how to run a football business! Great things are afoot, I feel.
This is a veery shrewd move.
Red n White says...
6:20pm Mon 21 May 12