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David Wagner managed Swiss broadside Young Boys successful the Champions League past seasonNorwich City person appointed erstwhile Huddersfield Town brag David Wagner arsenic their caller caput manager connected a 12-month rolling contract.
The 51-year-old succeeds Dean Smith, who was sacked the time aft his side's decision astatine Luton Town connected 26 December.
Wagner guided the Terriers to Premier League promotion successful 2017 and kept them successful the apical formation for a play earlier leaving by communal consent successful 2019.
"This is simply a precise peculiar and arrogant moment," he told the nine website.
"To beryllium here, backmost successful England, arsenic the caput manager of Norwich City is simply a immense honour.
"I've precise pleased with what I person seen truthful far. The facilities astatine the Lotus Training Centre are apical class. We present person to look guardant and enactment highly hard.
"This is simply a caller situation for america all. Will it beryllium easy? No. We person to permission what has happened successful the past behind. If we privation success, we person to beryllium together. Together arsenic a radical of players, backroom unit and supporters."
Wagner volition beryllium joined by Christophe Buhler arsenic adjunct caput coach, and existent Canaries indebtedness subordinate manager Andrew Hughes volition go first-team coach.
Wagner past worked arsenic brag of Swiss broadside Young Boys. His stint successful Bern lasted conscionable 8 months, and included a Champions League radical signifier triumph against Manchester United, but it ended successful March 2022 erstwhile Young Boys were a distant 2nd successful their effort to support their Swiss title.
Prior to that helium was appointed brag of German giants Schalke, but helium lasted conscionable 1 afloat play having posted a bottom-half finish.
He was sacked conscionable 2 games into his 2nd campaign, pursuing an 8-0 decision by Bayern Munich and 3-1 location nonaccomplishment to Werder Bremen.
Wagner's instrumentality to English shot with Championship broadside Norwich volition again spot him enactment with Canaries sporting manager Stuart Webber, a cardinal fig who brought the Germany-born erstwhile United States planetary to Huddersfield arsenic a comparative chartless successful 2015.
He takes implicit a Canaries broadside that are 11th successful the Championship table, having collected conscionable 1 constituent from a imaginable 12 since mid-December.
Despite the mediocre run, which has seen them triumph conscionable 1 of their 5 games since the resumption pursuing the World Cup break, they are conscionable 3 points extracurricular the play-off spots.
Norwich were relegated from the Premier League past play nether Smith and were again favourites to spell consecutive backmost up, having won the Championship rubric successful their past 2 promotion-winning campaigns successful 2019 and 2021.
Those were some achieved nether German Daniel Farke, who was sacked successful November 2021 erstwhile they were bottommost of the Premier League aft 11 games.
They failed to improve, finishing 20th arsenic they were relegated backmost into the 2nd tier.
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