Former Brooklyn Knights General Manager, Gali Maimon was named the new General Manager of the Express October 2009.

Maimon, the 2008 Premier Development League Executive of the Year, spent three years with the Knights. Over that period the Knights went 26-12-10 in the regular season, qualifying for playoffs in three consecutive seasons and US open cup in 2008. The Knights record in playoffs the past three seasons was 3 wins 2 losses . The team Reached the Final Four Once and Twice the Final Eight.

His new team, the Jersey Express was 8-2-6 in 2008, their inaugural year. They lost their first-ever playoff match, 4-2 to the Reading Rage that season after nipping at the heels of the Knights throughout the regular season. Brooklyn won the PDL’s Northeast Division that season with a record of 10-2-4. The Express finished second with an 8-2-6 mark.

the First year with the Express Maimon team record a new record with 10 wins 3 losses and 3 ties, the team open the season with 4-0 record and did not Qaulify to the US open cup because of GD tie breaker with Reading United AC.

2010 Jersey Express made the Sweet sixteen of the PDL championships.

The Express placed two players in all PDL team of rhe year and recorded the best PDL deffense on the the road (only one goal allowed)

Maimon is a native of Haifa, Israel, where he played soccer in the Macabi Haifa youth program and professionally in the Israeli Third Division. After service in the Israeli military, Maimon moved to the United States in 1983 and to Brooklyn in 1986, where he is an entrepreneur in several businesses, including Ariel Sports Services, and a member of Brooklyn’s soccer community.

He coached in the Met Oval Brooklyn Knights youth program and has coached in many youth soccer clubs and at Berkeley Carroll and Canarsie High Schools. He and his wife Randy have two children.