Andrew Meredith (born 24 April 1972 in Adelaide, Australia) was the former Analysis Operations Manager at

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club Manchester United. Formerly Director of Performance Analysis and Innovation Architect at

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club

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, Meredith was involved as Technical Analyst with the

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during their

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campaign. Meredith is a former FIH High Performance

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Coach, who worked as an International

coach during the period 2004– 2013. Following an 8-year period as the former Assistant Coach of the Germany national field hockey team, where he assisted the German National coaches, Bernhard Peters in the period 2004–2006, and Markus Weise 2006–2012, Meredith was named as National Coach of the

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for a 14-month period in October 2012 before moving to professional Football in Germany.

Hockey

Meredith was a member of the German Men's Hockey Team during a significantly successful period, winning gold in

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, gold in Field hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics in

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, gold at the

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. gold at the 2007 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy in

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, and the gold medal at the 2011 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship in Mönchengladbach. During his period as Ireland coach the team finished third at the

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and 7th at the

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Football

October 2013, saw him engaged as a High Performance consultant for the

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Bundesliga Football club

, which later led to an expanded full-time role in December 2013 where he was contracted as Innovation Architect and Head of Performance Analysis until August 2019. March 2015, Meredith began his involvement with the Australian National Football team the

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in a friendly match against Germany and was retained for the

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Qualifiers. In September 2019, Meredith joined Manchester United in the club’s Managerial Department, taking up the role of Analysis Operations Manager, which sees him focus on the strategic level responsibilities of analysis provision and innovation architecture within the First Team, Academy and Women’s program, and, the management of club resources.

Family

Andrew Meredith is the son of Dennis Meredith , the former Australian Hockey Player, international umpire and umpire's manager, and the competition and Events Manager for the International Hockey Federation from the period 2001 to 2010.

References

FC St Pauli2012 Irish Men's National Team2005 German Men's National Team

2008 Olympic German Men's National Team

Deutscher Hockey-Bund

External links

Olympic gold medal coach confirms he is joining Manchester United

FC St. Pauli: Hinter den Kulissen

Andrew Meredith Er ist das Auge von St.Pauli

BBC Sport - Meredith Steps down from Ireland to work in FootballInside Sport-interview with Andrew Meredith National Men's Hockey CoachBBC Sport - Ireland name Andrew Meredith as new men's coach
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Germans pad up for hockey practice, cricket style2008 Olympic Profile

2010 World Cup German Men's National TeamAndrew Meredith
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