Photograph: Alistair EdwardsPhotograph: Alistair Edwards’m sitting in the box, [Cristiano] Ronaldo’s family’s box, next to Georgina, his wife, watching the game,” says Alistair Edwards. “And then after the game Ronaldo comes in and he invites us to his house, so you go to his house. So it’s in those times I think, ‘yeah, life has been pretty good’.”
Perhaps the biggest surprise in all of this is not the fact Edwards enjoying such an existence, it is that he is doing so because he is the technical director of a club not in Europe but Asia. The sight of the iconic West Coast rapper in a JDT kit dropping lyrics like “I’m in it like JDT S N double O P bout to kick it on fresh grass” feels like a trick on the eyes.And it is all due to the vision – and let’s be honest, the money – of one man: Tunku Ismail ibni Sultan Ibrahim, the Crown Prince of Johor. Better known as TMJ, he is a man with a contact book as thick as any in world football and who counts Ronaldo as a personal friend.
“And when I was here, in the 1990s, nothing much had changed from that [time] in terms of the football. Everything was the same, the way it’s run and everything. It wasn’t really moving, but TMJ was starting to move it. So when he was explained to me what his plans were, they looked incredible.” This month the venue will host Group I of the AFC Champions League, which sees JDT pitted against continental giants Kawasaki Frontale, Ulsan Hyundai and Guangzhou Evergrande.
Edwards’s role at the club has changed over the years. Similarly to when he worked for Football Federation Australia as Joeys coach, much has centred around creating and developing the academy structures to develop a pipeline of talent – one that is showing early signs of bearing fruit.
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