Nathan Rooney

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Nathan Rooney
Personal information
Date of birth (1989-09-10) 10 September 1989 (age 34)
Place of birth Blackburn, England
Team information
Current team
 FCB Magpies (manager)
Youth career
YearsTeam
Blackburn Rovers
Managerial career
2020–2021 Colne
2022–2023 Bruno's Magpies
2023 Espinho
2023– FCB Magpies

Nathan Rooney (born 10 September 1989) is an English football manager, who is currently in charge of Gibraltar Football League club FCB Magpies

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Early life

Rooney was born in 1989 in Blackburn, England. [1]

Playing career

As a youth player, Rooney joined the youth academy of English side Blackburn Rovers. [2]

Managerial career

Rooney obtained a UEFA A License at the age of twenty-two. [3] In 2020, after spells coaching academy sides of Blackburn Rovers and Fleetwood Town, as well as serving as an assistant coach at Crawley Town, Carlisle United and the Gibraltar national football team, Rooney was appointed manager of English side Colne. [4] [5]

In January 2022, he was appointed manager of Gibraltarian side Bruno's Magpies. [6] He oversaw an upturn in form that saw the club secure UEFA Europa Conference League qualification for the first time by finishing 4th. After another season of improvement culminating in a 3rd place finish and the club winning the 2022–23 Rock Cup in his first full campaign, he resigned in May 2023 to take over Portuguese club Espinho. [7] However, he returned to the rebranded FCB Magpies later in the summer, without managing a competitive game for Espinho. [8] His first game back in charge saw the Magpies secure their first Pepe Reyes Cup, the traditional curtain raiser for the season between the previous season's league champions and cup winners.

Honours

FCB Magpies

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References

  1. ↑ "Nathan Rooney: Taking Gibraltar side Bruno's Magpies into Europe and dreaming of a big future". skysports.com.
  2. ↑ "Nathan Rooney's route to Carlisle United - via Gibraltar, Africa, Fleetwood, Crawley and coaching at 17". newsandstar.co.uk.
  3. ↑ "Nathan Rooney: Meet the English coach in Gibraltar dreaming big and taking inspiration from Graham Potter". inews.co.uk.
  4. ↑ "Nathan Rooney and Richard Duffy roles explained". stokesentinel.co.uk.
  5. ↑ "Nathan Rooney is looking for 'nastiness and nous'". lancashiretelegraph.co.uk.
  6. ↑ "Nathan Rooney - The Coaches Voice article".
  7. ↑ Nathan Rooney departs Magpies Bruno's Magpies. 17 May 2023. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  8. ↑ Official Announcement Bruno's Magpies. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
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