Henrik Pedersen (football coach)

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Henrik Pedersen
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Henrik Pedersen at Eintracht Braunschweig 2018
Personnel
birthday 2nd January 1978
place of birth HumlumDenmark
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1997-2001 Holstebro BK (youth)
2002-2006 Esbjerg fB U16
2006-2008 Aarhus GF U19
2008-2010 FC Red Bull Salzburg U19
2012-2014 FC Red Bull Salzburg U18
2014-2015 HB Køge
2016-2017 1. FC Union Berlin (assistant coach)
2018 Eintracht Braunschweig
2019– Strømsgodset IF

Henrik Pedersen (born January 2, 1978 in Humlum , Midtjylland region ) is a Danish football coach . Nowadays he looks after the Norwegian first division team Strømsgodset IF .

Career

Coaching career

Beginnings in the junior sector

Pedersen began at the age of 19 as a coach for various youth teams at Holstebro BK. After further positions as an amateur coach at the clubs Esbjerg fB and Aarhus GF , he started his work in the football division of Red Bull GmbH in 2008 , where he looked after the U18 and U19 teams for six years. Between 2010 and 2012 he was also employed as a coach at the Red Bull Ghana Academy (now the West African Football Academy ), which is supported by Red Bull .

Establishment in the professional sector

He finally found his first job as head coach between 2014 and 2015 at the Danish second division club HB Køge . During the winter break of the 2015/16 season, Pedersen got to know the German soccer coach Jens Keller during a stay in Turkey in order to observe clubs that were doing their training camp there. He promised Pedersen a position as assistant coach if Keller found a job as head coach. For the 2016/17 season, Pedersen was Jens Keller's assistant coach at the German second division club Union Berlin . In December 2017 he was released together with Jens Keller.

On May 30, 2018, the Dane signed a contract with third division club Eintracht Braunschweig as head coach until 2020 with the option of an extension of one year. After only eight points from the first eleven games of the season and the last place in the table, he was released on October 10, 2018 and replaced by André Schubert . On June 20, 2019, he became a coach in Norway for the first division club Strømsgodset IF .

Functionary career

From 2011 to 2012 Pedersen worked as Development Manager for the five Red Bulls soccer clubs ( New York Red Bulls , FC Red Bull Salzburg , RB Leipzig , Red Bull Ghana and Red Bull Brasil ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. "Feel courage, joy and gratitude" , Unser38.de, accessed on June 5, 2018
  2. The academy's coaching team reorganized , redbullsalzburg.at, accessed on June 5, 2018
  3. a b Pedersen: De unge har Red Bull i blodet , bold.bk (Danish), accessed on June 7, 2018
  4. Henrik Pedersen forlader HB Køge , bold.dk (Danish), accessed on June 5, 2018
  5. The assistant trainer from the hotel bar , tagesspiegel.de, accessed on June 5, 2018
  6. Henrik Pedersen to be the new head trainer , eintracht.com, accessed on June 5, 2018
  7. André Schubert new head trainer of Eintracht | Eintracht Braunschweig on eintracht.com, accessed on October 10, 2018.
  8. Henrik Pedersen blir ny hovedtræner