Vancouver Whitecaps name Denmark’s Jesper Sorensen as new head coach

By The Canadian Press on January 14, 2025.

VANCOUVER – The Vancouver Whitecaps have hired Denmark’s Jesper Sorensen as head coach ahead of the Major League Soccer season.

The 51-year-old Sorensen comes to Vancouver from Brondby IF in the Danish Superliga where he spent two seasons as head coach following two and a half as an assistant.

He also spent more than a year as head coach of Denmark’s under-21 national squad.

Whitecaps sporting director Axel Schuster says in a release that Sorensen’s teams are “well balanced with offensive creativity and defensive organization.”

Sorensen previously played more than 300 matches as a midfielder in Denmark’s top league.

He replaces exuberant Italian Vanni Sartini, who was fired in mid-November after the Whitecaps finished last season with a mediocre 13-13-8 regular-season record and were ousted from the playoffs in the first round by Los Angeles FC.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 14, 2025.

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