Brendan Rodgers
Personal information
Date of birth	26 January 1973 (1973-01-26) (age 36)
Place of birth	Carnlough, Northern Ireland
Club information
Current club	None
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
	Ballymena United Reading	0 (0)
Teams managed
1995–2004 2004–2006 2006–2008 2008–2009 2009	Reading Youth Chelsea Youth Chelsea Reserves Watford Reading
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Brendan Rodgers (born 26 January 1973) is a Northern Irish former footballer, who recently stepped down from the position of manager of Reading by mutual consent.

After retiring as a professional footballer at the age of 20, Rodgers stayed at Reading and was appointed the youth team coach. He was promoted to coach before Chelsea, under the leadership of José Mourinho, signed Rodgers as reserve team manager in 2004. In November 2008, he was appointed as Watford manager. After the resignation of Steve Coppell at Reading, Brendan Rodgers was favourite to take this vacancy, after John Madejski had been impressed with Rodgers work at Watford. He was appointed Reading manager in June 2009 but left the club by mutual consent on 16 December 2009^[1].

Contents 1 Personal life 2 Playing career 3 Coaching and managerial career 4 Statistics 4.1 Manager 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Personal life

Rodgers was born in Carnlough and was educated in Ballymena.^[2] He is married to Susan, and they have two children - one daughter and one son.^[2] Their son Anton, who was born on his father's birthday in 1993,^[3] used to play for Reading academy but moved in 2004 to the Chelsea academy where he recently signed scholarship forms in summer 2009. Brendan also has a daughter Mischa-Louise.^[2][3] Rodgers speaks Spanish and is learning Italian.^[3]

[edit] Playing career

As a player, Rodgers played in Northern Ireland for Ballymena United.^[4] He also played in England for Reading, although he retired due to injury at the age of 20, without making a league appearance.^[2][5]

[edit] Coaching and managerial career

After retiring as a player, Rodgers became Academy manager of the Reading youth team in 1995.^[2] He moved to Chelsea in September 2004 to become youth team manager,^[6] and was appointed manager of the reserve team in July 2006.^[7][8] On 24 November 2008, Rodgers was appointed as manager of Watford in the Championship, his first top-level managerial position.^[9] He had previously been linked with the vacant managerial position at Leicester City in August 2007.^[10] Despite earlier claiming loyalty, and that people claiming he would leave were "questioning his integrity", Rodgers chose to leave Watford and agreed to become manager of Reading, and after a compensation fee had been agreed, he was appointed on 5 June 2009.^[11]

After Steve Coppell resigned as Reading manager, after losing to Burnley in the Championship Play-off Semi-Final, Rodgers became favourite to take the vacancy ^[12]. He later distanced himself from leaving Watford, stating his 'concentration is fully on Watford'. ^[13] On June 3, 2009, it was believed that Rodgers was set to leave Watford F.C. and join his former employer where he was Youth Team Coach.^[14] Rodgers was appointed Reading manager on June 4, 2009,^[15][16] after a compensation package had been agreed of an initial £500,000, which could rise to £1,000,000.^[15] The Watford Supporter Trust has stated that Brendan Rodgers reputation has been "severely damaged" in the eyes of the supporters.^[17] However, the Watford Supporter Trust did "thank Brendan for his efforts last season and wish him well for the future." On the 11th of August 2009, Rodgers got his first win as Royals' boss after a 5-1 win over Burton Albion in the Carling Cup 1st round. ^[17]

After a disappointing string of results, Rodgers left Reading by mutual consent on 16 December 2009.

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Manager

As of 17 December 2009.^[18]

Team	Nation	From	To	Matches	Won	Drawn	Lost	Win %
Watford	England	24 November 2008	4 June 2009	&0000000000000032.00000032	&0000000000000013.00000013	&0000000000000007.0000007	&0000000000000012.00000012	&0000000000000040.63000040.63
Reading	England	5 June 2009	16 December 2009	&0000000000000022.00000022	&0000000000000006.0000006	&0000000000000005.0000005	&0000000000000011.00000011	&0000000000000027.27000027.27

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Brendan Rodger management career stats at Soccerbase

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Persondata
NAME	Rodgers, Brendan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Professional footballer and manager
DATE OF BIRTH	26 January 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	Carnlough, Northern Ireland
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH