Adlane Messelem
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Place of birth | Algeria | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 2005–2007 | Lens (management and players adviser) | ||
| 2014–2016 | Home United FC (technical director) | ||
| 2016–2017 | Sabah FA | ||
Adlane Messelem is an Algerian[1] football manager who was last contracted to Sabah FA in Malaysia.
Career
Part of Lens' backroom staff from 2005 until 2007, Messelem worked as a football negotiator for five years before being hired as technical director of Singaporean club Home United in 2014. In January 2017, Messelem was named as Sabah FA's sporting director and team manager of the professional team for the 2017 Malaysia Premier League season[2] and sought to put discipline into his players.[3] He also had plans to start a youth development program for the club and brought in Jonathan Behe, Soufiane Choubani, and Masaya Jitozono to fill the foreign players' slots.the team manager resigned the Malaysian outfit by 19 March, eight weeks after joining them.[3]
In 2017, he launched a national trial in Algeria for student to send them study and play in USA.
References
- ^ "Adlane Messelem profile on WAYN.COM". Archived from the original on 25 September 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ^ "Adlane is new Rhinos team manager - Daily Express Newspaper Online". 18 January 2017.
- ^ a b "Adlane Messelem, Telling It Like It Is: Overweight, smoking footballers, hidden agendas and the Sabah FA". 7 June 2017. Archived from the original on 25 September 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- Tan, Noah (31 October 2016). "Credentials of Home United Technical Director in doubt". Today. Singapore. Retrieved 10 July 2025.
- "Home United FC hired foreigner without coaching license as Technical Director when local coaches with pro license are ignored - Singapore News". The Independent. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2025.