Former Brooklyn Knights General Manager, Gali Maimon was named the new General Manager of the Ironbound 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 . 

His new team, Ironbound 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. Newark finished second with an 8-2-6 mark.

In head-to-head competition the past two years, Brooklyn holds a 2-1-1 advantage over the Express.

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