{"id":380931,"date":"2026-01-01T06:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T06:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380931\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T06:02:08","slug":"henrik-rydstrom-hired-as-coach-of-major-league-soccers-columbus-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380931\/","title":{"rendered":"Henrik Rydstr\u00f6m hired as coach of Major League Soccer\u2019s Columbus Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Henrik Rydstr\u00f6m was hired Wednesday as coach of Major League Soccer\u2019s Columbus Crew.<\/p>\n<p>He replaced <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nancy-celtic-coach-columbus-80e58bd90a66d421bfaf21869b8aeb95\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Wilfried Nancy;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Wilfried Nancy<\/a>, who quit Dec. 3 to become coach of Scotland\u2019s Glasgow Celtic.<\/p>\n<p>Rydstr\u00f6m, 49, coached Malm\u00f6 from 2023-25, helping the team to consecutive league titles and the 2024 Swedish Cup championship, after stints with Sirius from 2019-21 and Kalmar in 2018 and from 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Rydstr\u00f6m was a midfielder for Kalmar from 1993 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant coach Theodor Olsson and first team analyst Mak Pakhei are joining him from his Malo staff. Goalkeeper coach Phil Boerger and head of video and data analysis Marc O\u2019Neill will remain from Nancy\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Henrik Rydstr\u00f6m was hired Wednesday as coach of Major League Soccer\u2019s Columbus Crew. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,1172,16507,2811,162288,162286,14701,6376,162289,561,82,162287,126850],"class_list":["post-380931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-coach","tag-columbus","tag-columbus-crew","tag-glasgow-celtic","tag-henrik-rydstrom","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-ohio","tag-rydstrom","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-theodor-olsson","tag-wilfried-nancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}