Roger Palmgren

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Roger Palmgren
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Personal information
Full name Roger Lennart Palmgren
Date of birth (1963-03-11) 11 March 1963 (age 61)
Place of birth Stockholm, Sweden
Managerial career
YearsTeam
1990–1993 FC Cafe Opera
1993–1994 AC Arezzo
1994–1996 Sierra Leone
1997–1998 Degerfors IF
1998–1999 AC Arezzo
1999–2000 DR Congo
2001–2004 Vasalunds IF
2004–2006 Rwanda
2006–2007 Kwara United
2007–2009 Thanda Royal Zulu
2009–2012 AmaZulu
2013 Namibia
2013–2014 Guangzhou R&F (assistant)
2015–2016 Shanghai SIPG (assistant)
2018–2019 Brommapojkarna (assistant)
2019–2021 FC Nacka Iliria

Roger Lennart Palmgren is a Swedish football manager.

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He has been active as club manager in nine different countries: Italy, Sweden, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, South Africa, Namibia and China.

He has been coach of the national football teams of Sierra Leone, Rwanda and Namibia.

Career

Cafe Opera & Arezzo

Roger started his coaching career in 1990 as a playing coach with Alessandro Catenaccis team FC Cafe Opera in Sweden. After climbing 3 divisions in 3 years, Palmgren got an offer in 1993 from Francesco Graziani to coach Primavera team FC Arezzo to explore a professional managing career. After great success, Palmgren got offered the job as coach for Sierra Leone national team. [1] [2]

Sierra Leone

When Palmgren won the Amílcar Cabral Cup (1995), and qualified to Africa Cup of Nations (1996) in South Africa with Sierra Leone national team, he made his break through as an international football manager. This is the best result in Sierra Leones football history yet.

Degerfors

After Sierra Leone, Palmgren worked as assistant coach and sport director for the Swedish Allsvenskan team Degerfors IF. When FC Arezzo offered him to come back coaching 1998, he took the challenge.

Vasalund

After the merger between Essinge IK and Vasalunds IF, Palmgren became sport director and later managing coach of Vasalunds IF between 2003 and 2004. [3]

Rwanda

In August 2004, Palmgren relocated to Africa as he accepted the position head coach of Rwanda national football team, [4] where he took the team to the final of the CECAFA Cup against Ethiopia. By the end of 2005, Palmgren took on the Nigerian club Kwara United F.C. [5] in Nigeria Premier League and they eventually reached semi finals in CAF Confederation Cup in 2006.

Thanda Royal Zulu

Palmgren moved to South Africa in May 2007 when he got an offer from a Swedish consortium [6] to manage the club Thanda Royal Zulu F.C. in Premier Soccer League in Durban.

Amazulu

After two years with Thanda, he got offered to become sport director with the South African team Amazulu FC [7] [8] , and short thereafter head coach. [9] Palmgren achieved the best league result ever for the club in 2011-12, as well as FA cup finals against Bidvest Wits FC.

Namibia

In 2013, Roger took the offer to coach Namibia national football team. [10] [11] Unfortunately he didn't stay long as he and his family were threatened by supporters and decided to resign [12]

Guangzhou & Shanghai

Palmgren relocated to China, and started working as Sven-Göran Eriksson's assistant coach in the Chinese Super League with the team Guangzhou R&F. [13]

Return to Sweden

On 5 September 2018, Palmgren was appointed as assistant manager of the Swedish club side IF Brommapojkarna, following the sacking of Luís Pimenta. [14] [15]

He was then manager of FC Nacka Iliria in Stockholm. [16]

Honours

Sierra Leone

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  7. ↑ "Interview with Roger Palmgren, Sports Director at AmaZulu FC" (PDF). Accord. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  8. ↑ "Roger Palmgren Appointed Director Of Sport At AmaZulu". Goal.com. 14 November 2009. Archived from the original on 16 November 2009. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  9. ↑ "AmaZulu sack coach Manqoba Mngqithi". Goal.com. 19 September 2011. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
  10. ↑ "Roger Palmgren new Warriors coach". Namibia Football Association. Archived from the original on 27 May 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  11. ↑ "Roger Palmgren appointed Namibia coach". BBC Sport. 2 May 2013. Archived from the original on 21 November 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  12. ↑ "Roger Palmgren resigns as Namibia coach after death threats". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 17 August 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
  13. ↑ "助理教练-罗 杰 (Assistant coach: Roger Lennart Palmgren)" (in Chinese). Guangzhou R&F F.C. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
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