Brendan Rodgers Biography




Brendan Rodgers is a Northern Irish football coach and former defender player; he is now the current coach of Liverpool. He was born in January 26, 1973.
Brendan start his career as player when he played as defender in the rows of Ballymena United, after that he moved to sign with Reading when his age was 18 , but he retired at the age of 20 because of injury forced him to do. He stayed at Reading although of his retiring to be a coach until Jose Mourinho invited him to join him in Chelsea as manager for the youth team in 2004.
Rodgers was confirmed to be the manger in 2006. So in 2008 he signed with Watford to be his head manager, he stayed there until an offer come from his former team Reading to sign with it in 2009.
Rodgers left the club because of the bad results of the team during six months , to sign with Swansea City in 2010, though he led them to win the promotion to the Primer League, it was the first Welsh team ever did that, and the led them to finish the position 11th in their debut Primer League season.
Liverpool presented an offer to Rodgers in order to become his manager in 2012 and he accepted that offer.


His Early Life:
 








Brendan Rodgers parents are Malachy and Christina, and he has four brothers younger than him, Rodgers studied in Ballymena at St Patrick’s College. He played the Gaelic football and hurling, and at the age of 13, he was taken to football. Rodgers was the supporter of Celtic, Sheffield, and Wednesday.
During his teenager, Rodgers studied at Northern Ireland in his schoolboy level, where he played notably against Brazil in 1988. He started his career as defender in Ballymena United, to sign after that with Reading at the age of 17 but he still playing to the age of 20 when he exposed to a genetic Knee condition preventing him from continuing his career. So after this incident, reading offered him to be his youth coach.
He seeks to travel around Spain in order to learn different coaching methods, to be invited by the big coach Jose Mourinho and enter the Chelsea Youth Academy as head coach in 2004. After that in 2006 Rodgers was promoted to be the team manager.



Managerial career:


Watford:



Rodgers left the youth Academy in Chelsea to start his managerial career with Watford. He led them to win just two games of his first ten games during the league. So they finish the league by the position 13th by improving their playing little.



Reading:



Steve Coppell was the former coach of Reading , he left the team , so the administration called Rodgers to train reading but he firstly refused because he claimed that he concentrated on Watford , but they offered him a salary £ 500.000 , he agreed and then his salary became £ 1 million. But the fans of Watford nevertheless thanked him for his efforts last season despite him lost the trust in the eyes of millions of his fans in Watford.


His first win with Reading was against Burton Albion with 5-1 as result in the League Two side during the first round of the League Cup. But he faced  a consequences of loses after his first win and bad results, the thing that led him to leave Reading by mutual consent in December  after six months of his arrival.


Swansea City:
  


He signed with Swansea City on July 16, 2010. He led them to promote into the Primer League to make it the first Welsh team ever to do that. And the team started to get wins over many teams like Aston Villa, Liverpool, Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur. Those good results led the administration of Swansea City to sign with him for new three years until 2015.



Liverpool:


Brendan Rodgers signed with Liverpool a contract for three years on June 1, 2012. He accepted this offer after the departure of Kenny Dalglish before two weeks.
He led Liverpool to reach to the fourth round of the FA Cup, and it finished in the seventh position in the primer league, which was one position higher than previous season. 



Personal Life of Brendan Rodger




His wife name is Susan and they have a son named Anton, who is a player in Oldham Athletic and they also have a daughter named Mischa.
He speaks Italian and Spanish, he is well known as Buck Rodgers.




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