Ronny Deila

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Ronny Deila
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Personal information
Full name Ronny Deila
Date of birth (1975-09-21) 21 September 1975 (age 49)
Place of birth Porsgrunn, Norway
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Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Celtic (manager)
Youth career
Urædd
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1992–1993 Urædd 16 (0)
1993–2004 Odd 240 (22)
2004–2005 Viking 23 (0)
2006–2008 Strømsgodset 43 (6)
2009–2011 Sparta/Bragerøen 30 (4)
Total 352 (32)
International career
1992–1993 Norway U17 9 (0)
1994 Norway U18 3 (0)
1996 Norway U21 2 (0)
Managerial career
2005 Brodd
2008–2014 Strømsgodset
2014– Celtic
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ronny Deila (born 21 September 1975) is a former Norwegian professional football player and the current manager of Scottish Premiership club Celtic.[1][2] He spent most of his playing career at Odd before becoming head coach at Strømsgodset, winning the Norwegian Cup in 2010 and the Norwegian League title in 2013.[1] He won the Scottish Premiership and Scottish League Cup with Celtic in his first season, 2014-15.

Playing career

Deila began his playing career with lower league club, Urædd.[2] He then joined Odd, where he became a mainstay in their defence.[2] In 2000 he played in the side that defeated Viking 2–1 in the Norwegian Cup Final, his only major honour as a player.[2] He joined Viking in 2004, before moving on to join Strømsgodset as player/assistant coach in 2006.

Although by 2009 he was coaching Strømsgodset, he combined these duties for a couple of years with playing part-time at lower league Sparta/Bragerøen until 2011.[3][4]

He was capped nine times for the Norwegian under-17 side and then made two appearances for the under-21s in 1996. Deila never represented his country at senior level.[2]

Coaching and management

Strømsgodset

After leaving Viking, Deila coached Norwegian fourth-tier club Brodd briefly in 2005.[5] He then joined Strømsgodset in 2006 as player/assistant coach, working under head coach Dag-Eilev Fagermo until the end of the 2007 season, when Fagermo decided to move to Odd.[1]

Sporting director Jostein Flo then promoted Deila to head coach of Strømsgodset.[1][2] At this time, Deila retired as a player.[2]

His first two seasons as head coach saw the club struggle against relegation,[1][2] but his attacking philosophy began to bear fruit as Strømsgodset started to record higher finishes in the Norwegian league.[1] In 2010 he won the Norwegian Cup,[2] and in 2013 he won Tippeligaen with Strømsgodset, their first title in 43 years.[2] The same year, Deila was also awarded the Kniksen Award for Coach of the Year.[6]

Deila showed a keenness to take on board coaching ideas at foreign clubs. Having previously visited Manchester City, Barcelona and Ajax to acquire further knowledge, he then after the end of the season in 2013 travelled to Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool to study their coaching and training methods.[7]

In the 2014 season, Deila's Strømsgodset were second in the league by the end of May after eleven games.[8] The club had continued their impressive home record under Deila, having gone 44 league games unbeaten at their Marienlyst Stadium since June 2011; just one short of the all-time Norwegian record held by Rosenborg.[2] However, Deila was beginning to attract foreign attention, and Strømsgodset had given him a new contract to run until 2016 in order to head off interest from Swedish champions Malmö who had unsuccessfully attempted to poach him in January.[2] Despite this new contact, various media reports surfaced in the first week of June linking Deila to the vacant managerial post at Scottish champions Celtic.[9][10]

Celtic

Deila was surprisingly appointed manager of Scottish Premiership club Celtic on 6 June 2014.[11][12] He signed a 12-month rolling contract with the club, describing his appointment as a "magnificent honour" before stating his desire to deliver "attacking, exciting and entertaining football."[12][13] Eleven days later, former Celtic and Scotland midfielder John Collins was appointed assistant manager. Deila described Collins as a "first-class coach" and stated that he "has ideas on football which are very similar to mine so I am sure he will be a great addition to my team."[14]

After going unbeaten on a pre-season tour in Austria,[15] Deila's first competitive match as manager of Celtic, a Champions League qualifying tie away against KR Reykjavik on 15 July 2014, ended in a 1–0 win for the Scottish club.[16] The second leg of the tie ended in a 4–0 win for Celtic, securing a 5–0 aggregate win.[17] The following qualifying round saw Celtic lose 6–1 on aggregate to Legia Warsaw.[18] Despite this, Celtic were given a reprieve when it was discovered that Legia had fielded an ineligible player in the second leg. UEFA punished the Polish club by awarding the game 3–0 to Celtic, levelling the aggregate score at 4–4 and seeing the Scottish champions progress on away goals.[19] Celtic went on to face Maribor in the next qualifying round. After a credible 1–1 draw away in the first leg, Celtic lost 1–0 in the return match at Celtic Park and went out on aggregate; dropping down to the Europa League.[20]

On 13 August, Ronny Deila won his opening Scottish Premiership game, beating St Johnstone 3–0, although the performance was less than convincing.[21] Deila's second league match, and his first game at Parkhead, saw Celtic defeat Dundee United 6–1 in a performance that BBC Sport described as being "full of drive, skill, belief and... goals."[22] Generally though, Celtic were unconvincing in the early stages of the league,[23] but improved as the season progressed and also qualified from their Europa League group.[24] These improved performances saw Deila win the Manager of the Month award for November 2014.[25] By February 2015, Celtic had won 15 of their last 17 domestic games[26] and comfortably defeated Rangers 2–0 in the semi-final of the Scottish League Cup.[27] Celtic played Inter Milan in the last 32 stage of the Europa League, rallying to draw 3–3 at Parkhead from an early 0-2 deficit in a pulsating encounter,[28] then losing 1–0 in Milan to go out on aggregate despite a highly credible performance.[29] In the league, Celtic thrashed second placed Aberdeen 4–0 on 1 March to go six points clear with a game in hand and a vastly superior goal difference.[30] It was Celtic's eighth consecutive win in the league, and the turn around in form saw previous critics of Deila review their opinion of him. Former Celtic striker John Hartson had branded Deila as "clueless" in October, but stated four months later that Deila had "turned it round", praising his Celtic side for playing "brilliant football."[31]

Deila won his first trophy at Celtic on 15 March; Celtic defeating Dundee United 2–0 in the League Cup Final. Kris Commons and James Forrest were Celtic's goalscorers, whilst Stefan Johansen won the Man of the Match award.[32][33]

Deila's Celtic team won the Scottish Premiership on 2 May 2015, with three games to spare, following their rivals Aberdeen's loss to Dundee United. Celtic finished the season in style, as Ronny's Celtic side beat Inverness 5-0 on 24th May 2015. [34]

Honours and Achievements

Player

Odd

Manager

Strømsgodset
Celtic
Individual

Coaching career

Managerial statistics

As of match played 10 January 2016
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L Win %
Brodd Norway 1 June 2005 6 October 2005 12 7 2 3 58.33
Strømsgodset Norway 20 November 2008 6 June 2014 187 85 40 62 45.45
Celtic Scotland 6 June 2014[11] Present 95 621 18 15 64.52
Total 294 154 60 80 52.38

1Includes UEFA Champions League qualifier match against Legia Warsaw which Celtic lost 2–0 on the night, but was later awarded as a 3–0 win to Celtic due to Legia fielding a suspended player.[19]

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