Jim McGuinness, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Irish Gaelic footballer and manager
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Place of Birth: Glenties, Ireland
About Jim McGuinness
- Jim McGuinness (born 16 November 1972) is an association football coach and former Gaelic footballer and manager, who won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship as both player and manager with the Donegal senior team.
- In December 2018 he was named as the new head coach of Charlotte Independence in the USL Championship. He is one of only a few inter-county managers to have been taken a role at a professional sports team outside Ireland.Having guided Donegal to the final of the 2010 All-Ireland Under 21 Football Championship, McGuinness was appointed senior manager later that year.
- In his time at the helm, he oversaw a Donegal team that won three Ulster Senior Football Championship titles in four seasons and led them to the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.
- The 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the county's first appearance on football's ultimate stage since 1992.
- Donegal's victory that year was only the county's second All-Ireland senior title in more than 120 years.
- McGuinness ended his Donegal career with a defeat by Kerry in the 2014 All-Ireland Final. McGuinness began working with Celtic as a coach in 2012, progressing to the position of assistant manager of the club's Under-20 squad.
- In 2017 he took up a coaching role with Beijing Sinobo Guoan F.C., leaving in January 2018.
- He has a UEFA A Licence.McGuinness's image has been represented on a mural outside Glenties, and a statue bearing the epigraph "Jim the Redeemer" was erected at Laghy close to Lough Derg.
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