Nicolas Jover

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Nicolas Jover
Personal information
Full name Nicolas Jover
Date of birth (1981-10-28) 28 October 1981 (age 42) [1]
Place of birth Berlin, Germany [1]
Team information
Current team
 Arsenal (set-piece coach)
Managerial career
YearsTeam
2009–2016 Montpellier (video analyst)
2013 Croatia (match analyst)
2016–2019 Brentford (set-piece coach)
2019–2021 Manchester City (set-piece coach)
2021– Arsenal (set-piece coach)

Nicolas Jover (born 28 October 1981) is a German-born French football coach who is currently the set-piece coach of Premier League club Arsenal.

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Career

Born in Berlin, Germany, Jover was raised in France. [2] He moved to Quebec, Canada in his early twenties to study for a sports degree at the University of Sherbrooke, [3] courtesy of the link between University of Montpellier and Sherbrooke. [2] During his time there, Jover drew on the influence of North American sports such as the National Football League. [3] After studying for a master's degree, he joined Dynamik de Sherbrooke, a local amateur club, as their technical director. [2]

Jover returned to France and joined Montpellier as a video analyst in 2009. [2] [3] He helped them claim their first Ligue 1 title in the 2011–12 season, [4] which saw Montpellier boss René Girard received UNFP Ligue 1 Manager of the Year [5] and striker Olivier Giroud was named the league's top scorer by the Ligue de Football Professionnel. [6] While working at Montpellier, he also took a match analyst role for Croatia for a brief spell in 2013. [7]

Jover moved to England as a set-piece coach of Dean Smith at Brentford from July 2016, [8] and was part of Smith's successor Thomas Frank's coaching team until June 2019. [9] In the 2018–19 season he shared the same office with goalkeeping coach Iñaki Caña, [10] who would join Arsenal in December 2019. [11] [12]

In July 2019, Manchester City appointed Jover as an assistant to Pep Guardiola, specializing in set-pieces, [13] [14] on the recommendation of Mikel Arteta who was the No.2 at the Etihad. [15] [3] Arteta left Manchester City for the Arsenal's head coach job in December 2019. [16] [17] In the 2020–21 season, Jover helped Manchester City claim the Premier League title and reach the Champions League final. [2] He left his role in June 2021, when his contract expired at the end of the month. [2] [18]

On 5 July 2021, Jover was appointed as set-piece coach to manager Mikel Arteta at Arsenal, [19] [18] working alongside assistant coaches Albert Stuivenberg, Steve Round, Carlos Cuesta and Miguel Molina, and goalkeeping coach Iñaki Caña. [11] [20] In the 2023–24 season with Jover's help, Arsenal scored twenty set-piece goals (excluding penalties) in the Premier League, the most in the division. Sixteen of those came from corners, matching the record in a single Premier League campaign. [21]

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