Roger Palmgren

Roger Palmgren
Roger Palmgren (2014)
Personnel
birthday	March 11, 1963
place of birth	Stockholm ,  Sweden
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1990-1993	FC Café Opera
1993-1994	AC Arezzo
1994-1996	Sierra Leone
1996	Degerfors IF
1998	AC Arezzo
1999-2000	DR Congo
2003-2004	Vasalunds IF
2004-2005	Rwanda
2006-2007	Kwara United
2007-2009	Thanda Royal Zulu
2010-2011	Durban Warriors
2011–2012	AmaZulu
2013	Namibia

Roger Lennart Palmgren (born March 11, 1963 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish football coach . For the greater part of his coaching career he worked in Africa both as a national and club coach.

Career

Palmgren began his career as a player-coach at FC Café Opera , which he founded together with businessman Alessandro Catenacci , and led the former leisure team through the league pyramid in the early 1990s. After his team end of 1993 with the fourth division Djursholm Fotboll had fusinoert he left the club and moved for the next two years as coach of the Italian third division side AC Arezzo in Serie C .

Then Palmgren took over as national coach of the national team of Sierra Leone . The "Leone Stars" he led to the African Cup of Nations in 1996 , despite a 2: 1 success over Burkina Faso at the start of the team to arbitration Gbassay Sessay , Lamin Conteh and Mohamed Kanu after losing to Algeria and the eventual tournament medalist Zambia as a group of third parties at the end the preliminary round. He then handed over the coaching post to John Sherington and returned to Degerfors IF as an assistant coach and later head of sport before he succeeded again at AC Arezzo. In 1999, the Congolese federation hired him as technical director for the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . At the African Cup of Nations 2000 , however, this was also eliminated in the preliminary round.

Palmgren then returned to Sweden again and later worked as a trainer for Vasalunds / Essinge IF . Twice he narrowly missed promotion to the second-rate Superettan with the third division team . In 2004 he took over the Rwandan national team , which in the same year under his predecessor Ratomir Dujković had participated in a final tournament at an African Cup for the first time. For the first time, the qualification for the World Cup and African Championship finals took place in an overarching qualifying round. In qualifying for the 2006 tournaments , Palmgren's team had no chance. In autumn 2005, a few days before the 2005 CECAFA Cup, he was released prematurely and replaced by Gilbert Kanyankore .

In the summer of 2006, Palmgren followed an offer from the Nigerian club Kwara United . His stay as a club coach in the Nigerian Premier League only lasted until spring of the following year. After he quit his job due to security concerns - there were several kidnapping attempts for his assistant Johannes Eriksson - the club announced legal action. In August 2007, the South African club Thanda Royal Zulu , which had been taken over by a Swedish consortium led by Dan Olofsson , hired him as the new coach and responsible for setting up a football academy. In the first year, the team around goal scorer Serge Djiéhoua ended the season on the last non-relegation place, after they were also in the relegation battle the following year, Palmgren was released shortly before the end of the season.

In November 2009 Palmgren joined the South African club AmaZulu Durban as sports director. After a weak start to the 2011/12 season without a win, the previous coach Manqoba Mngqithi was dismissed in mid-September 2011 and Palmgren was appointed as his successor. Under his leadership, the club reached seventh place in the table at the end of the season.

In May 2013 Palmgren took over the office of national coach of the Namibian national soccer team , but resigned in June 2013 because of "serious threats" against him and his family.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} fotbollskanalen.se: "Svensktränaren möter United i morgon:" Tog en fika med Sir Alex "" (accessed on September 17, 2012)
2. ↑ accord.org.za: "Roger Palmgren - Sports Director at AmaZulu FC, Durban, South Africa" ​​(Playing for peace, page 19)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 17, 2012; PDF; 3.3 MB)  
3. ↑ news.bbc.com: "Rwanda appoint interim coach" (accessed on September 17, 2012)
4. ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: "Nigeria's Kwara demand sanctions" (accessed on September 17, 2012)
5. ↑ aftonbladet.se: "MÅLET: SVERIGE" (accessed on September 17, 2012)
6. ↑ goal.com: "Roger Palmgren Appointed Director Of Sport At AmaZulu" (accessed September 17, 2012)
7. ↑ goal.com: "AmaZulu sack coach Manqoba Mngqithi" (accessed on September 17, 2012)
8. ↑ Roger Palmgren is the new trainer of the Brave Warriors. Allgemeine Zeitung, May 3, 2013 Retrieved May 22, 2013
9. ↑ Threats: Palmgren resigns. Sport1.de, June 10, 2013. Retrieved June 10, 2013.