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., in the K League with Chunnam Dragons, in the A-League with Melbourne Heart, for Ghana National Football Team, Elche CF, Rayo Vallecano of Madrid, Rayo OKC, Head Coach of Irtysh Pavlodar and recently as Methodology Technical Director of 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. 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 in Huesca 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 alongside the manager, Mr. Hae Soung.

[Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.]

In the 2012-2013 season, Gerard worked at Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. 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, 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. On the Africa Cup of Nations 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.

[Elche CF]

Gerard worked simultaneously for Elche CF under the supervision of Mr. Ramón Planes Novau 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, 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.

[Ghana National Football Team]

On December 2016 Gerard joined again the Black Stars for the Africa Cup of Nations, when the team achieved the Semifinals.

[Rayo Vallecano]

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

Irtysh Pavlodar">FC Irtysh Pavlodar">Irtysh Pavlodar

Then Gerard became Irtysh Pavlodar’s Head Coach Kazakhstan Premier League.

[AFC Eskilstuna]

On December 2018, Gerard became Methodology Technical Director of AFC Eskilstuna.

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.

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.

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