Former West Brom assistant Ben Garner joins Indian club
Former Albion assistant Ben Garner has returned to football as assistant head coach of Indian team ATK.
Garner left the Baggies in November 2017 shortly after Tony Pulis was sacked after clashing with interim boss Gary Megson.
The 38-year-old has been searching for jobs since then, having not joined Pulis's backroom staff at Middlesbrough like Dave Kemp and Jonathan Gould.
After a 'frustrating' year of searching for work, Garner has now joined ATK – previously known as Atletico de Kolkata – in the Indian Super League.
He will be working under Steve Coppell, who he knows from their time together at Crystal Palace.
"Very happy to have joined ATKFC as Assistant Head Coach until the end of the Indian Super League season," said Garner.
"Looking forward to the challenge and hopefully we can finish the season strongly."
Garner has been coaching for 18 years and suffered a nasty ankle injury when he was 19 that cut short a promising playing career in the Palace youth team.
He rose through the coaching ranks at Palace before becoming Pulis's assistant at Selhurst Park and subsequently followed the Welshman to The Hawthorns.
But Megson banished him from the training ground when he was in caretaker charge.
ATK are currently sixth in the Indian Super League, four points outside the top four, who advance to the play-offs when the regular season ends.
