Roger Palmgren

Roger Palmgren Lennart ( born March 11, 1963 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish football coach. Most of his coaching career, he worked in Africa, both as a national and club coach.

Career

Palmgren began his career as player-coach at FC Café Opera, which he had founded jointly with the businessman Alessandro Catenacci, and led the former recreational team in the early 1990s through the league pyramid. After his team had fusinoert the end of 1993 with the fourth division Djursholm Fotboll, he left the club and moved for the next two years as coach of the Italian third division side AC Arezzo in Serie C.

Then took Palmgren as national coach the national team of Sierra Leone. The " Leone Stars" he led to the African Cup of Nations 1996, despite a 2-1 success over Burkina Faso to kick separated the team to Gbassay Sessay, Lamin Conteh and Mohamed Kanu after defeats against Algeria and the eventual tournament medalist Zambia as a group at the end of third parties the preliminaries of. He handed then the coaching job to John Sherington and returned as assistant coach and later head of sport to Degerfors IF back to Sweden before, he succeeded again at AC Arezzo. 1999 signed him the Congolese Association as technical director for the national team of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the African Cup of 2000, however, this difference also made in the preliminary round.

Palmgren then returned again back to Sweden and later worked for Vasalunds / Essinge IF as a coach. Twice he missed the third division only just move up to the second-class Superettan. In 2004 he took over the Rwandan national who had participated in the same year under his predecessor Ratomir Dujković first time in a final tournament at a European Championship. For the first time qualifying for the World Cup and African Cup of Nations finals was henceforth in a cross qualifying round. In qualifying for the 2006 tournament held Palmgren's team had no chance, in the fall of 2005, he was prematurely released a few days before the CECAFA Cup 2005 from his post and replaced by Gilbert Kanyankore.

In summer 2006, Palmgren accepted an offer of the Nigerian club Kwara United. His stay as a club coach in the Nigerian Premier League but only lasted until the spring of the following year. Having due to security concerns - there were several attempted kidnappings for his assistant Johannes Eriksson - had chucked his job, the club announced legal action. In August 2007, he undertook the South African club Thanda Royal Zulu, who had been taken over by a consortium led by Swedish Dan Olofsson, as their new coach and responsible for the establishment of a football academy. In the first year, the team finished top scorer at Serge Djiehoua the season on the last non- relegation zone after it was also in the following year in a relegation battle was Palmgren released shortly before the season ends.

In November 2009, Palmgren joined the South African club AmaZulu Durban as sports director. After a weak start to the season 2011/12 without a win, the previous coach Manqoba Mngqithi was released in mid-September 2011, and appointed as his successor Palmgren. Under his leadership, the club reached the Saisonenede the seventh place in the table.

In May 2013 Palmgren took over the post of national coach of the Namibian national football team, but resigned because of " serious threats " against him and his family already back in June 2013.