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- Published: Dec. 31, 2025, 12:56 p.m.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — On nan past time earlier nan caller year, nan Columbus Crew reportedly person their sights group connected their caller caput coach.
Multiple reports including Tom Bogert of The Athletic opportunity nan Crew are finalizing a woody pinch Henrik Rydström, who past coached Malmö successful Sweden.
The 49-year-old Rydström is successful statement to win Wilfried Nancy, who near nan Crew successful early December to return nan occupation astatine Celtic successful Scotland.
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He had been nan caput coach astatine Malmö starting successful November 2022 and led nan nine to 2 Allsvenskan convention championships on pinch nan Swedish Cup successful 2023-24 before being fired connected Sept. 26.
Rydström had a grounds of 74-26-26 arsenic nan caput coach astatine Malmö. He besides had stints arsenic caput coach astatine IK Sirius and Kalmar FF.
As a player, he played 252 matches for Kalmar arsenic a protect midfielder and helped them triumph nan Allsvenskan title successful 2008.
He will person large shoes to capable aft Nancy led nan Crew to immoderate of their top occurrence successful franchise history. Nancy’s fierce style helped nan Crew triumph nan MLS Cup successful 2023 and nan Leagues Cup successful 2024.
Nancy was 71-32-34 arsenic caput coach of nan Crew.
Tim Bielik been portion of cleveland.com's sports unit since 2013 and has been covering sports successful Northeast Ohio for 12 years. He is simply a wide duty sports newsman who has covered galore sporting events...
