Personal information | |||
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Full name | Nils Herbert Kromann Nielsen | ||
Date of birth | 3 November 1971 | ||
Place of birth | Nuuk, Greenland | ||
Managerial career | |||
Years | Team | ||
2012–2013 | Denmark U-18 | ||
2013–2017 | Denmark women | ||
2018 | China U-20 women (assistant) | ||
2018–2022 | Switzerland women | ||
2024- | Japan women |
Nils Herbert Kromann Nielsen (born 3 November 1971) is a Danish football manager which is the coach of the Japan women's national football team.
He has served as director of football for Manchester City W.F.C. since 4 May 2023. He is the first person appointed to the role. [1]
Nielsen is best known for his tenure with the Denmark women's national football team from 2013 to 2017. [2] He led the Danes to a runners-up finish at the UEFA Women's Euro 2017. [3] [4] Despite departing the team shortly after, Nielsen received acclaim for his work and finished runner-up in the 2017 The Best FIFA Women's Coach award. He spent most of 2018 as the assistant manager of the China women's national under-20 football team, taking them to the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. [5] He was also manager of the Switzerland women's national football team from 2018 to 2022. [6]
In 12 of December of 2024, Nielsen was appointed as the new coach of the Japan women's national football team.
Both of Nielsen's parents were teachers, and as it was his father's wish to live and work in Greenland, Nielsen was born there. During his first years, he lived in a village of 25 inhabitants. When he was five, his parents separated, and with his mother he moved back to Denmark while his father and his brother stayed in Maniitsoq. [7] Born with a serious back problem, his doctor forbade him to play soccer. To compensate for his weakness, he chose large amounts of muscular strength exercises, and played soccer anyway. During a game, he fell onto the side fence, and broke a vertebra. With great luck, he avoided a paraplegia. After that accident, he stopped playing, and later chose a career as a trainer and studied sports psychology. [7]
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