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Yaya Toure, former Ivory Coast midfielder, Yaya Toure, has secured a full time coaching position in Tottenham’s academy.
39-year-old Yaya has been working with the Premier League club on a part-time basis for the last eight months as he works towards his UEFA A Licence.
According to the Evening Standard Toure will be handed his own age-group team to manage as part of an academy coaching shake-up at Spurs.
It will be his first permanent coaching position in England.
He has held assistant manager roles at Ukrainian club Olimpik Donetsk and Russian side Akhmat Grozny.
While working to get his badges after the end of his playing career in a Chinese club in 2020, Toure has also spent time at QPR, Blackburn and the Welsh FA.