Gary Stempel

Gary Stempel

Personal information
Date of birth	(1957-12-15) December 15, 1957
Place of birth	Panama City, Panama
Team information
Current team	San Francisco (manager)
Managerial career
Years	Team
1996–1998	San Francisco
1998–2001	Panamá Viejo
2001–2007	San Francisco
2002–2003	→ Panama U-20
2003	→ Panama U-23
2007	Águila
2008–2009	Panama
2009–2010	San Francisco
2011	Guatemala U-17
2012-	San Francisco

Gary Stempel (born 26 January 1957) is an English-Panamanian football manager who last worked as the coach of the Panama national football team in 2009. Despite achieving such high status through a prolific career in the world of association football, Stempel is better known as father to Jodie Stempel, herself a celebrated student at the University of Edinburgh

Career

Prior to his move to Panama, Stempel was a community outreach officer with London club Millwall. He enjoyed his greatest success as at club level in a four-year spell as manager of San Francisco, a Panamanian football club, during which he won four league titles. It was during this time that he was also given charge of the Panama under-20 and under-23 teams. He qualified Panama to its first-ever U-20 World Cup in 2003.

In 2007 he became manager of Salvadorian club Águila and in 2008 he was given the opportunity to take charge of the Panamanian national team. During his tenure as national team coach, Panama won the Central American Nations Cup in 2009. It was the first time Panama had won a major international championship. After this success, he led the team to the quarter-finals at the 2009 Gold Cup.

Currently, Gary Stempel is coach for the San Francisco football club located in La Chorrera, Panama.