David Nielsen has chosen to put his signature on a deal until the summer of 2023 with AGF.

the Danish superliga club AGF has extended the contract with head coach David Nielsen forward to the summer of 2023.

It shall notify the club in a press release.

The previous agreement was to expire this summer, and David Nielsen was rumored to other clubs. But AGF have managed to hold on to the former Lyngby-trainer.

AGF has had an excellent autumn. The club is gone for the winter break with a third place in the premier League.

– The strategy, style of play and the expression that we in the community have adopted the soccer ball in the AGF, is inside a really good development and have come better and better to the expression that time is gone, says the team he will play for in the AGF, Peter Christiansen, in the press release.

– Like the whole træningskulturen in our unique facilities on the Fredensvang is lifted strongly over the period with David Nielsen as head coach. It is something that David and our highly skilled staff around the team must have high praise for.

David Nielsen came to AGF in 2017 after a few successful years in Lyngby. After some seasons with varying results for Aarhus’ fodboldflagskib has this season shown significant progress.

Despite some fluctuations along the way it has been for 20 points in the premier League after 20 of the 26 grundspilsrunder and a position as number three with four points down to Brøndby.

– I’m really happy to be in the AGF, where we have long had the time in a good and exciting development. I would like to continue to contribute to and work on in it’s tracks, we have jointly laid, says David Nielsen.

– So I am not ready to leave the AGF, where I am surrounded by talented and competent people – both around the ligaholdet and in talentsektoren, and where I daily get to work with talented players in a great club.

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