Former Nottingham Forest, Leicester and Swansea supervisor Steve Cooper has been named head coach of Danish membership Brondby.
The 45-year-old has signed a three-year contract and takes over from Frederik Birk, who was sacked with the membership fourth within the Superliga after 4 video games.
Cooper’s first match in cost might be Saturday’s residence derby at Brondby Stadium in opposition to league leaders FC Copenhagen.
Brondby director of soccer Benjamin Schmedes mentioned Cooper has a “uncommon mixture of youth and expertise, imaginative and prescient and persona” and may “raise each the person participant and your entire membership to a brand new stage”.
“We need to speed up our growth in order that we are able to obtain the bold sporting objectives we have now and, not least, set up a successful tradition inside the partitions of Brondby Stadium,” Schmedes informed the membership’s web site., exterior
“This requires a mentality, management and a pair of broad shoulders that we have now little question Steve possesses. That’s the reason we’re more than happy that he has agreed to tackle the problem.”
Cooper’s final administration job was at Leicester the place he was sacked in November 2024 after simply 12 Premier League matches in cost.
He beforehand managed Forest between 2021 and 2023, main them to promotion to the Premier League for the primary time in twenty years in 2022.
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