{"id":306613,"date":"2025-07-31T12:53:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306613\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:53:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:53:28","slug":"henrik-pedersen-sheffield-wednesday-named-manager-after-danny-rohl-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306613\/","title":{"rendered":"Henrik Pedersen: Sheffield Wednesday named manager after Danny Rohl departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rohl, who led the team to a 12th-placed finish last season, had looked set to leave last month when he did not return to take pre-season training but eventually came back in early July, only to leave by mutual consent on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pedersen has previous managerial experience across Europe in his native Denmark, as well as in Germany and Norway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am incredibly, incredibly proud to become manager of this wonderful football club,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swfc.co.uk\/news\/2025\/july\/31\/a-message-from-henrik\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Since arriving in Sheffield with my family, the city immediately felt like our home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Is this going to be easy? No! We are maybe in &#8216;rough waters&#8217; at the moment but as a proud Dane I can tell you that like our Viking ancestors, stormy seas don&#8217;t bother us too much. You have to get used to it, to weather the storm to get to calmer waters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To the fans, I ask that we stick together. At times we may need to be a little patient as we strive to grow. We all care deeply and will do all we can to bring the great times back to Hillsborough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I only ask that you get behind your team.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rohl, who led the team to a 12th-placed finish last season, had looked set to leave last month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-306613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114947948893197681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}