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[caption id="attachment_16814" align="alignnone" width="580"] Richard Dryden to be East Bengal's assistant coach. zimbio.com[/caption] Kolkata: East Bengal coach Trevor Morgan to bring his assistant Richard Dryden to East Bengal. Richard Andrew Dryden is an English former professional footballer turned manager and coach. During his playing career, Dryden, mainly a defender played for various clubs in England like Manchester City Stoke City, Southampton etc. During his managerial career, Dryden was appointed assistant manager of Tamworth when Mark Cooper took charge of the club in April 2004. On 24 January 2007, Dryden's contract with Tamworth was terminated by mutual consent, at the same time as Cooper's contract. In March 2007, Dryden signed for Shepshed Dynamo. In November 2007, he became manager of Conference North club Worcester City, but left this post after being sacked on 17 January 2010. He was subsequently appointed assistant manager at Darlington, but was dismissed together with Mark Cooper on 14 October 2011. Dryden was appointed as York City's head of youth team coaching in July 2012, working alongside youth team coach Steve Torpey. He left the club in December 2014. According to Trevor Morgan, "Yes, I am bringing Richard with me who will be assisting me in East Bengal. We will get a local goalkeeper coach as well as a local assistant coach to help us. But I will not appoint any physical trainer." Trevor Morgan will be landing in Kolkata for the pre season training on 2nd July and along with him Richard will be coming from England. Trevor Morgan has also plans of a residential camp in Kalyani in the first week of July.