Coaching Career
Stewart has travelled throughout the world and has coached in Texas, USA, for England under-19s in Slovenia for the European Qualifiers, and with the England schoolboys in the Victory Shield. He was also the Northern Ireland goalkeeping coach when the Northern Ireland under-19s retained the Milk Cup. Stewart travelled with Northern Ireland to Portugal for an under-21 friendly game and to Malta with the under-19s. He holds a UEFA A coaching licence and a FA Goalkeeping A licence. Stewart is a recipient of the FA Youth coaches award and is an FA Tutor; he issues FA Goalkeeping Level 1 and Level 2 certificates and administers the FA Level 3 Goalkeeping module for the UEFA B Licence and Futsal level 1.
Stewart has worked with every age group at Liverpool FC. He began at the Academy in 1999 where he was the Academy Goalkeeping Coach, co-ordinating the goalkeeping programme starting with goalkeepers as young as age seven and developing the goalkeeping training programme up to full-time players. Stewart's last full-time role at Liverpool was coaching the reserve-team goalkeepers at the Melwood Training Ground; he also worked with first-team goalkeepers, including Reina, Cavalieri, Martin and Itandje. He has also worked with other first-line goalkeepers such as Dudek, Kirkland, and Carson. Stewart runs a goalkeeping school and assists in placing young, talented goalkeepers with football clubs throughout England. He holds NVQ teaching-assessor and internal-verification certificates, and is fully CRB checked. Stewart is an academy goalkeeping coach with Liverpool.
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