Full name Age Fridtjof Hareide Years Team Spouse Annbjorg Hareide Current team Denmark (coach) Height 1.80 m | Playing position Role Football manager Place of birth Hareid, Norway Name Age Hareide Position Defender | |
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Date of birth (1953-09-23) 23 September 1953 (age 62) Team coached Malmo FF (Manager, since 2014) Children Bendik Hareide, Anne Henrikke Hareide Similar People Markus Rosenberg, Morten Olsen, Rikard Norling, Roy Hodgson, Erik Hamren | ||
Denmark manager Åge Hareide on Martin O'Neill's Cyrus Christie logic
Åge Fridtjof Hareide (born 23 September 1953 in Hareid) is a Norwegian football manager currently managing the Danish National football team. In his playing career, he played for Hødd and Molde in Norway as well as Manchester City and Norwich City in England. Hareide was capped 50 times playing for Norway.
Contents
- Denmark manager ge Hareide on Martin ONeills Cyrus Christie logic
- Playing career
- Coaching career
- Early managerial career
- Norway
- Viking
- Second spell at Helsingborg
- Malm FF
- Denmark
- Media career
- Managerial career
- Manager
- Individual
- References
As a coach, Hareide has won league titles in all of the Scandinavian countries, In Sweden with Helsingborgs IF in 1999 and with Malmö FF in 2014, in Denmark with Brøndby in 2001–02 and in his native Norway with Rosenborg in 2003. Hareide was in charge of the Norway national team from 2003 to 2008.
Playing career
During his playing career, Hareide played for Hødd, Molde, Manchester City and Norwich City.
He was also an active player for the Norwegian national team from 1976 through 1986, scoring five goals in 50 matches.
Coaching career
As a coach Hareide has won three European countries' national league championships, namely that of Denmark, Sweden and his native Norway, making him the only coach to have won the league in all three Scandinavian countries. Other coaches who have won league titles in three different countries include fellow Scandinavians Trond Sollied and Sven-Göran Eriksson, while Ernst Happel, Giovanni Trapattoni and José Mourinho have won championships in four different countries.
Early managerial career
In the mid-1990s, Norwegian millionaires Kjell Inge Røkke and Bjørn Rune Gjelsten were reportedly interested in bringing Hareide back to Manchester City as manager if their bid to take over the club was successful, but the takeover bid failed and Hareide never returned to the club. When the pair tried to take over Leeds United around the same time, it was once again reported that Hareide would be installed as manager if the takeover bid succeeded, but this bid too failed and Hareide was never put in charge at Elland Road. However, the pair finally succeeded in a takeover bid for fellow English Premier League club Wimbledon in June 1997, and Hareide appeared all set to become the new manager of the club in a move that would have ousted the incumbent Joe Kinnear. But this never happened either.
Norway
Hareide was employed as the coach of the Norwegian national football team at the end of 2003, replacing Nils Johan Semb, after one season as coach of Rosenborg BK. On 8 December 2008, after having failed to take Norway to any international tournaments, and having had a bad start to the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, Hareide resigned from his position as national team coach of Norway. On 9 December 2008 Hareide announced that he was stepping down as coach of the Norwegian national team.
Viking
On 10 June 2009 it was announced that he will be coaching Örgryte IS. On 1 December 2009 the former Norway national team head coach left the Swedish club to join Viking FK, from Stavanger to replace Uwe Rösler. Following Egil Østenstad resignation as director of football in Viking, Viking announced in September 2011 that Hareide would be manager of Viking, and that Josep Clotet Ruiz would be hired as coach from the 2012-season onwards, similar to the organization English clubs and Molde have, with Ole Gunnar Solskjær as manager and Mark Dempsey as coach. Viking finished 9th in 2010, Hareide's first season, and 11th in 2011. With the team positioned on 10th place on 9 June 2012, Hareide was released by Viking FK because of the bad results.
Second spell at Helsingborg
Following Conny Karlsson's resignation in Helsingborgs IF, the club hired Hareide, the last coach who won Allsvenskan with Helsingborgs IF, except Karlsson, as head coach until the end of the 2012 season.
Malmö FF
Hareide was brought out of retirement from his managerial career by being appointed as the new manager of the reigning Swedish champions Malmö FF on 9 January 2014. He had immediate success at the club as he led the team to defend their Allsvenskan title and qualify for the group stage of the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League in his first season. For this successful season Hareide was awarded Allsvenskan manager of the year. He was also nominated for coach of the year at Svenska idrottsgalan.
Denmark
On 10 December 2015 Hareide was announced as the new manager of the Danish national football team replacing Morten Olsen, who had stepped down following the UEFA Euro 2016 qualification. Hareide would begin his new job on 1 March 2016.
Media career
After resigning as the Norwegian national team's coach Hareide began working as an expert Norwegian Premier League commentator for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
Managerial career
As of 26 March 20171 Only competitive matches are counted.
2 For these earlier statistics, only league matches are collected.