{"id":101952,"date":"2025-08-28T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101952\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:39:09","slug":"liverpool-appoint-set-piece-coach-and-brazilian-joins-arne-slots-staff-liverpool-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101952\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool appoint set-piece coach and Brazilian joins Arne Slot’s staff – Liverpool FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool have installed Aaron Briggs in the full-time role of first-team set-piece coach, with another new arrival from Brazil taking his previous job.<\/p>\n

Briggs joined the club last summer as part of their major overhaul, but while he was appointed in the position of first-team individual development coach, his responsibilities soon changed.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old took the lead on set-pieces as well as being a vocal presence in training and on the touchline at matchdays.<\/p>\n

Liverpool had advertised for a specialist set-piece coach, with the expectation being that Arne Slot<\/a>\u2018s former colleague Etienne Reijnen would eventually join from Feyenoord, but now Briggs will formally take the role.<\/p>\n

The Athletic<\/a>\u2018s James Pearce reports that Atletico Mineiro assistant coach Luiz Fernando Iubel will arrive on September 1 to become individual development lead coach.<\/p>\n

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That will allow Briggs to focus solely on set-pieces, which could be a major boost to Liverpool given it is such an important area.<\/p>\n

Iubel, a 36-year-old Brazilian who can speak English, Portuguese, Spanish and German, will be tasked with overseeing the development of players between the academy and first team.<\/p>\n

His role will be similar to that of Vitor Matos, who served as the bridge between youth and senior football during five years at Liverpool alongside Jurgen Klopp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Matos left the club with the majority of Klopp\u2019s backroom staff last summer, and after a brief stint assisting Pepijn Lijnders at Salzburg, he is now head coach of Portuguese second-tier side CS Maritimo.<\/p>\n

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Part of Iubel\u2019s duties will also work closely with the players Liverpool send on loan, which this season will include James McConnell<\/a>, Vitezslav Jaros<\/a>, Lewis Koumas<\/a> and Luca Stephenson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pearce explains that the process of identifying him as the ideal candidate was a rigorous one involving Slot, Fenway Sports Group\u2019s Julian Ward and Pedro Marques, and academy director Alex Inglethorpe.<\/p>\n

His arrival will not be the first within Slot\u2019s backroom this summer, with Giovanni van Bronckhorst<\/a> among those to join after a number of departures.<\/p>\n

Van Bronckhorst has replaced John Heitinga as assistant coach, while Xavi Valero and Colin Stewart have filled the roles of goalkeeping coaches Fabian Otte and Claudio Taffarel respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have installed Aaron Briggs in the full-time role of first-team set-piece coach, with another new arrival from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,7886,85],"class_list":["post-101952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}