Judan Ali is an English football technical director, coach, and former player He played for Arsenal, Barcelona and Murcia.
[3][4] In the summer of 2011, Ali assembled a team of Asian players aged under-15, to compete in the Arsenal International Soccer Festival.
Ali and the Chinese Taipei Football Association say 'The aim is to implement a long-term structure to get all Taiwan's age groups to their respective world championships.'
[12] Ali runs a non-profit all-female football academy, a pre-sports school for young girls, based in London.
[16] He was taken under the wing of his mentor, the late Johan Cruyff, where he studied coaching of the youth teams at La Masia, FC Barcelona.
Ali was tasked with recruiting players and training them from scratch, and in their first season of competing, they finished in 12th position generating crowd attendances of 23,000 at home games.
[24] In June 2017, Judan Ali was appointed the technical director for Persela Lamongan Football Club, who compete in the Indonesian Super League.
[26] In August 2023, Judan Ali was appointed as the Technical Advisor of FC Hegelmann, women's Head Coach & first team manager.
[7][8][9][28] In September 2007, Ali took part in the Premier League All Stars football tournament for charity, representing a Chelsea team alongside celebrities Ross Kemp and Omid Djalili.