Ex-forest Boss Cooper Named Brondby Head Coach

Former Nottingham Forest, Leicester and Swansea head Steve Cooper has been named caput coach of Danish nine Brondby.

The 45-year-old has signed a three-year statement and takes complete from Frederik Birk, who was sacked pinch nan nine fourth successful nan Superliga aft 4 games.

Cooper's first lucifer successful complaint will beryllium Saturday's location derby astatine Brondby Stadium against convention leaders FC Copenhagen.

Brondby head of shot Benjamin Schmedes said Cooper has a "rare operation of younker and experience, imagination and personality" and tin "lift some nan individual subordinate and nan full nine to a caller level".

"We want to accelerate our improvement truthful that we tin execute nan eager sporting goals we person and, not least, instal a winning civilization wrong nan walls of Brondby Stadium," Schmedes told nan club's website., external

"This requires a mentality, activity and a brace of wide shoulders that we person nary uncertainty Steve possesses. That is why we are very pleased that he has agreed to return connected nan challenge."

Cooper's past guidance occupation was astatine Leicester wherever he was sacked successful November 2024 aft conscionable 12 Premier League matches successful charge.

He antecedently managed Forest betwixt 2021 and 2023, starring them to promotion to nan Premier League for nan first clip successful 2 decades successful 2022.

Steve Cooper has had tons of offers since losing his occupation astatine Leicester, including galore successful nan Championship.

While location was a clip erstwhile he would person jumped astatine that chance, Brondby appeals because it offers an acquisition and targets he is not utilized to.

Firstly, nan purpose is silverware. Four years agone Brondby were Danish champions. Two years agone they vanished second.

Currently 4 points down leaders Copenhagen aft 7 games, Cooper's purpose is to compete for silverware and unafraid European qualification.

The Welshman feels location is scope for monolithic betterment and a existent imaginable to move upwards. Crucially, nan club's ownership is aligned pinch that thinking.

Cooper wants to create arsenic a coach. He feels moving overseas is nan champion measurement to do that - and besides show a pathway for different British coaches pinch first-team acquisition to follow.