Roger Palmgren
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Roger Lennart Palmgren | ||
| Date of birth | 11 March 1963 | ||
| Place of birth | , Sweden | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 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) | ||
Roger Lennart Palmgren is a Swedish football manager that has been active as club manager in nine different countries: Italy, Sweden, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Congo, Nigeria, South Africa, Namibia and China.
He has been coach of the national football teams of Sierra Leone, Rwanda and Namibia.
Roger started his coaching career in 1990 as a playing coach with 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.
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.
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.
Palmgren thereafter worked as a technical director for DR Congo national football team. In 2001, he was back in Sweden building up young talents such as Henok Goitom in Swedish football club Essinge IK. After the fusion between Essinge and Vasalunds IF, Palmgren became sport director and later managing coach of Vasalunds IF between 2003 and 2004.
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