Gerard Nus

Gerard Nus Casanova is a UEFA Pro license football manager with the Sport Science Degree. He has worked for many clubs and national teams in different countries, with experience in the Premier League with Liverpool F.C. and Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. (England), in the K League with Chunnam Dragons (South Korea), in the A-League with Melbourne Heart (Australia), for Ghana National Football Team (Africa), Elche CF (Spain), Rayo Vallecano of Madrid (Spain), Rayo OKC (US), Head Coach of Irtysh Pavlodar (Kazakhstan Premier League) and recently as Methodology Technical Director of AFC Eskilstuna (Allsvenskan, Swedish top division).

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Nus and the second or maternal family name is Casanova.
Gerard Nus
Gerard Nus on the touchline for Rayo OKC in 2016
Personal information
Full name Gerard Nus Casanova
Date of birth (1985-01-31) 31 January 1985
Place of birth Tarragona, Spain
Teams managed
Years Team
2007- 2010 Liverpool F.C.
2010-2011 Chunnam Dragons
2012–2013 Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.
2013–2014 Melbourne Heart
2014–2017 Ghana National Football Team
2015–2016 Elche CF
2016–2017 Rayo Vallecano
2016–2016 Rayo OKC
2017–2018 FC Irtysh Pavlodar
2018–2019 AFC Eskilstuna

Career

Gerard’s career began at the age of 14 when he worked as an assistant coach at various football camps for RCD Espanyol. His desire to be involved in coaching grew and at the age of 16 he completed one year coaching course to get the Federation Football Coaching Level 1 (Spanish Federation). The following year, he completed his Level 2 coaching certificate, increasing his chances of getting involved in higher level coaching. Moreover, Gerard wanted to deepen his studies in football and sport, so he began a degree in Sport Science at the age of 18, which he completed four years later. It was at the age of 22 when Gerard completed his Level 3 coaching certificate (equivalent to UEFA Pro license) in Huesca (Spain) and university studies.

Gerard had always balanced his studies with playing football but during the first year of university he suffered from a complicated ankle injury that meant the end of his career as football player. It was at that point when he fully dedicated himself to coach youth teams.

Liverpool F.C.

At the early age of 22 years old Gerard moved to England, to Liverpool F.C.’s prestigious football academy, and one year later he became part of the first team staff.

Chunnam Dragons

This invaluable education would be complemented later with his work as assistant for Chunnam Dragons (K League, 1st Division Team in South Korea) alongside the manager, Mr. Hae Soung.

Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.

In the 2012-2013 season, Gerard worked at Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. (English Championship Team) as Head of Academy Coaching. By that time, he had the great chance to work close to another successful and knowledgeable manager, Gustavo Poyet.

Melbourne Heart

In the 2013-2014 season, Gerard worked as assistant coach at Melbourne Heart (A-League), 1st Australian soccer division.

Ghana National Football Team

On December 2014, Gerard worked for the Ghana Football Association as Assistant Coach of Mr. Avram Grant (Head Coach). On the Africa Cup of Nations (Equatorial Guinea, 2015) the team achieved the Final, although they lost it during the penalties against Côte d’Ivoire. Nus had a great and successful time with the Black Stars.[1]

Elche CF

Gerard worked simultaneously for Elche CF (Spain) under the supervision of Mr. Ramón Planes Novau (Elche CF Chief Sports Director) until July 2016.

Rayo Vallecano

It was then when Gerard signed with Rayo Vallecano of Madrid to become Deputy Technical Director.

Rayo OKC

On August 2016 Gerard was named new Head Coach of Rayo Oklahoma City (Nasl-USA), a soccer club owned by Rayo Vallecano of Madrid. The team succeeded achieving the NASL Championship Semifinal, with 10 games unbeaten and 5 straight win games.[2][3]

Ghana National Football Team

On December 2016 Gerard joined again the Black Stars for the Africa Cup of Nations (Gabon, 2017), when the team achieved the Semifinals.[4]

Rayo Vallecano

Then Gerard came back to Rayo Vallecano of Madrid, where he worked again as deputy technical director until December 2017.[5]

Irtysh Pavlodar

Then Gerard became Irtysh Pavlodar’s Head Coach Kazakhstan Premier League.[6][7]

AFC Eskilstuna

On December 2018, Gerard became Methodology Technical Director of AFC Eskilstuna (Allsvenskan, Swedish top division).[8]

Book

After this great experience in Asia, Gerard published the book “Warm up in football: training sessions & matches”, which has been translated to Spanish and Korean. The book’s foreword was written by the prestigious football manager, Mr. Rafael Benítez, his former boss at Liverpool F.C.[9]

Efficiency Match

As a side, Gerard developed a coaching App called “Efficiency Match Sports”, an extremely useful sports app that allows you to design drills, create animations, manage teams and players, and take notes and statistics from games, and everything in the simplest, fastest and most efficient way.[10]


Managerial statistics

Managerial record
As of match played 22 April 2018
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team From To Record Ref
PWDLWin %
Rayo OKC 1 August 2016 7 November 2016 16 6 5 5 037.5
Irtysh Pavlodar 21 December 2017 28 April 2018 7 3 1 3 042.9 2018 Season
Total 23 9 6 8 039.1 —

References
  1. "Gerard Nus, el català que ha entrenat als cinc continents". ara.cat. Ara. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  2. Periódico, El. "Gerard Nus, el catalán que vive el sueño americano". elperiodico.com.
  3. "Gerard Nus, el último gran héroe americano". efe.com. Agencia EFE. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  4. "Gerard Nus, el català que ha entrenat als cinc continents". ara.cat. Ara. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  5. "Gerard Nus deja la Secretaría Técnica del Rayo Vallecano". UniónRayo. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  6. "Gerard Nus dirigirá al Irtysh Pavlodar kazajo". eldesmarque.com. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  7. "Gerard Nus entrenará en Kazakijstán". diaridetarragona.com. Diari de Tarragona. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  8. "Pressmeddelande: Meriterad tränare till akademiverksamheten". afc-eskilstuna.se. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  9. Nus Casanova, Gerard. WARM UP IN FOOTBALL: TRAINING SESSIONS & MATCHES. CIRCULO ROJO. ISBN 9788491756569.
  10. "El tècnic reusenc Gerard Nus crea una aplicació per dispositius Apple per planificar els entrenaments". reusdigital.cat. Reus Digital. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.