{"id":4038,"date":"2026-04-16T13:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:35:35","slug":"mulholland-set-to-take-on-key-role-at-scottish-fa-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=4038","title":{"rendered":"Mulholland set to take on key role at Scottish FA \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>Role: Craig Mulholland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Scottish FA is set to appoint the former head of Rangers\u2019 youth academy as its new chief football officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Craig Mulholland, who spent 20 years at Ibrox before moving to Nottingham Forest in 2023, is understood to be the man the governing body wants to fill what it sees as a key role in helping produce the stars of the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The 56-year-old is reportedly serving a notice period as head of football development at the City Ground before taking up his position at Hampden Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mulholland is being lined up as a replacement for the long-serving Andy Gould who has joined FIFA as a high-performance specialist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Chris Docherty has also departed as the SFA\u2019s head of men\u2019s elite strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">One of Mulholland\u2019s first tasks will be to decide whether to follow through with the pair\u2019s recommendations on restructuring how players transition from youth football to first team involvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Gould and Docherty co-wrote a report finding that Scotland trail behind similar-sized countries in providing opportunities to make that jump and they then followed up with a recommendation that players aged 0-12 be focused on, as opposed to those aged 12-16 in regional performance schools in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Glasgow, Kilmarnock and Motherwell.<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #Mulholland #set #key #role #Scottish #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Role: Craig Mulholland. The Scottish FA is set to appoint the former head of Rangers\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[272,306,634,8759,1283,3477,1054,298],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}