" The Career of the New Cardiff City Manager ' OGS ' "

" The Full Career of Cardiff City's New Manager "
I was a massive Malky fan and it hurt, But I will be fully backing our New Manager. BUT NEVER EVER TAN.



Thursday 02 January 2014.

" A look back at the career of the new Cardiff City manager ' Ole Gunner Solskjaer ' "


In doing so, Solksjaer becomes only the fourth Norwegian to take charge of an English league club.

Cardiff City’s newly appointed manager Ole Gunner Solskjaer is well remembered for his flourishing playing career in the Premier League with giants Manchester United, but in recent seasons he has proved to be just as successful a manager.

Retiring from the game as a player in August 2007, there are of course a variety of ways to improve and cultivate your coaching acumen. For Solskjaer, he initially took up a coaching role under former boss Sir Alex Ferguson before taking charge of United’s Reserve team and guiding them to the Premier Reserve League crown in 2009-10.



It set up a first role as manager the following season, joining former club Molde FK in Norway where he had spent 18 months of his playing career before joining United in 1996. In that time, the 67 time capped Norwegian International scored a staggering 31 goals in 42 appearances – form that ultimately alerted United and saw him arrive at Old Trafford.

Returning to Molde as manager proved to be a challenge the former frontman would relish, guiding the Norwegian side to their first ‘Tippeligaen’ title in their 100 year history in 2011 before impressively retaining the crown the following year.

Solskjaer has been a revelation back in his native Norway since taking charge at the Aker Stadion and last year added a domestic cup honour to his ever expanding list of managerial honours as Molde beat Rosenborg 4-2 to take the Norwegian Football Cup in November.



Fondly nicknamed ‘the baby faced assassin’ by United fans for his goalscoring exploits, Solksjaer is well accustomed to success and honours, winning six Premier League titles during his stint at Old Trafford with two FA Cup triumphs also to his name.

But it is perhaps the 1999 UEFA Champions League triumph that was arguably his crowning glory. Coming on as an 81st minute substitute, his winning goal three minutes into stoppage time saw United beat Bayern Munich 2-1 and claim Sir Alex Ferguson’s first success in the competition.



It was a goal that completed a remarkable turnaround at the Nou Camp that saw the Reds score twice in added time to claim the victory in the most dramatic of fashions. It was just one of 128 goals scored in all competitions for the Old Trafford club during his 11-year spell as a player, also making over 350 appearances in that time.

Now, Solksjaer arrives to take charge of his first Premier League club in South Wales hoping to make as impressive an impact at the Cardiff City Stadium, with well wishers across the Premier League, in South Wales and his native Norway urging him to become a success as manager of the Bluebirds.

In doing so, Solksjaer becomes only the fourth Norwegian to take charge of an English league club, following Egil Olsen at Wimbledon in 1999, Stale Solbakken at Wolves in 2012 and former United team mate Henning Berg at Blackburn Rover the same year.

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He is also our first ever foreign manager

He is also our first ever foreign manager

Cheers Thomas

Can't wait to see what he can do for us

The other Norwegians have not done very well

The other Norwegians have not done very well

The others didn't study at the school of fergie!

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The other Norwegians have not done very well

The others didn't study at the school of fergie!

Henning Berg?

The other Norwegians have not done very well

Olsen was the long-time manager of Norway, leading us to the round of 16 in the World Cup, beating Brazil 2 out of three times (the other being a draw) and making nr.2 on the FIFA-ranking. By the time he took over Wimbledon, that club was a mess (partly due to the norwegian owners that hired him). He did the mistake og getting mediocre/poor players in from Norway, although Wimbledon's problems were more far-reaching than that.

Solbakken had a very good track-record in FCK, and when he left for Cologne (a club in utter disarray, which it has pretty much always been) things didn't go too well. But that club is something quite unique in a negative way: he was replaced by the manager he replaced less than a year before, and he was on an occasion personally threatened by supporters of the club. In Wolves I think he would have done well if he got the time. Wolves sacking Solbakken was a worse idea than hiring him, something a Wolverhampton-fan who is a friend of mine said at the time. Wolves were never going to go right back up with the squad they had, and as he was sacked in early January he never really got the chance. He is now back at FC København to try to get the club back to the hights they were at during his first spell.

Henning Berg is no comparison to either of the above-mentioned - he was never really successful as a manager in Norway, getting his best result (3rd in the league) in his first year in control of a team that since followed in the footsteps of Leeds (Lyn). A few days, perhaps a week, before he got the Blackburn job he said on Norwegian national television that 'only an idiot would take the Blackburn job'.

Solskjær can't really be compared to any of the ones mentioned above - he knows the culture of Britain, and he knows the PL probably better than any other at Cardiff. He's got lots of contacts in some really good clubs, and he's a well liked guy - probably the best liked player who ever played under SAF by those who support other teams. They still sing his name at Old Trafford, whilst you hardly hear them sing about Cole or Yorke. In his managerial career he has been an instant success, and in the last season with Molde he had some real adversity, but managed to come out of with a respectable end of the season winning the cup. For those who saw the press conference, the guy omits a good, positive aura, while still being in control of his environments. He looked self-assured and enthusiastic, and I think that is far more important than some dull Harry Redknapp-class of manager for who's its just another job.