Gerard Nus

Gerard Nus Casanova (born 31 January 1985) is a Spanish UEFA Pro license football manager who is the assistant manager of the Greece national football team.

He has worked as a manager in different continents.

After retiring as a player at a young age and completing a Sports Science Degree at INEFC Lleida, Nus started his coaching career at Liverpool's academy.

In 2007, Nus decided to move to England to work as a Youth Coach at the academy of Liverpool with the main role of contributing to the development of young players.

One year later, Nus was promoted to the first team coaching staff, where he worked under the guidance of Rafael Benítez.

After his first year, he was promoted to Rafael's Benitez coaching staff, ending the 2008–09 Premier League season in second place and advancing to the quarterfinals of the FA cup and the UEFA Champions League.

After his experience in England, and with the end of Benitez's period in Liverpool, Nus moved to the K League with Chunnam Dragons, where he was appointed as Assistant Coach under Jung Hae Soung.

During his year in South Korea, the team finished the league season in seventh place and advanced to the quarter-finals of the FA cup and the Rush Cup.

Nus is known for his aggressive and modern attacking style of play.

In addition, he has worked in Brighton & Hove Albion (English Premier League), Melbourne Heart (A-League), Ghana National Football Team (Africa), Elche (La Liga), Rayo Vallecano (La Liga Smartbank), Rayo OKC (NASL), Irtysh Pavlodar (Kazakhastan Premier League) and Eskilstuna (Allsvenskan).

Nus' football journey began at 14 as an assistant coach at Espanyol's training camps.

By 16, he had Level 1 and 2 coaching certificates, expanding his coaching opportunities.

At 18, he started a Sports Science degree, completing it in four years.

At 22, he secured his Level 3 coaching certificate (equivalent to UEFA Pro license) in Huesca, Spain.

An ankle injury ended his playing career at Reus Deportiu, leading him to focus solely on coaching.

At 21, he became assistant coach at Club Gimnàstic de Tarragona for the under-19 team.

The 2008–09 season was a very successful campaign for Liverpool, ending in second place in the Premier League and advancing to the quarter-finals of the FA cup and the UEFA Champions League.

During this experience, Nus had the opportunity to work with world-renowned players such as Steven Gerrard, Javier Mascherano, Fernando Torres, Xabi Alonso and Pepe Reina.

Moreover, he also played an important role in the development of youngsters such as Daniel Pacheco, Mikel San José or Miki Roqué, who played in the development squad.

After three years in UK, Nus moved to Asia to work for Chunnam Dragons in the top-tier division of South Korea K League.

He was appointed as the Assistant Coach of Jung Hae-seong, who previously worked as assistant coach of the South Korean National team.

On 18 March 2009, the team registered a 4–0 victory over Real Madrid and a 4–1 victory over Manchester United, managed by Sir Alex Ferguson.

During the 2011-12 campaign, Nus was able to develop players such as Ji Dong-won, who later signed with Sunderland, and Yun Suk-young, who signed for Queen Park Rangers.

The following season (2012–13), Nus was appointed as Head of Academy Coaching at Brighton & Hove Albion, where he oversaw the development of the club's young talent and played a role in the process of promoting players to the first team, which was managed by Gus Poyet.

In addition, during the 2012-13 campaign, the club finished the league in fourth place and making it to the Championship playoff for the first time since 1991.

The team was eliminated by their rivals Crystal Palace.

In 2013, Nus decided to join John Aloisi's coaching staff at Melbourne Heart – currently named Melbourne City.

Nus’ integration to the A-League was facilitated by his relationship with Aloisi, who previously played in two La Liga teams, Osasuna and Deportivo Alaves.

The 2013–14 season did not start upright for Melbourne Heart, and on 28 December 2013, Aloisi was sacked as the team manager after having played only 10 games.

Technical director, John Van’t Schip took charge of the team and Nus was automatically promoted to first assistant coach.

At the conclusion of the campaign, Nus rejected the club's offer to renew his contract, ending his time in Australia.

In December 2014, Nus was appointed as Assistant Coach at the Ghana Football Association with the main goal to prepare the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, the 30th staging organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

The finals draw was held on 3 December 2014 in Malabo.

The 16 teams were divided into four pots based on the CAF Ranking.

The tournament - 17 January to 8 February 2015 - initially scheduled to be hosted by Morocco who later demanded postponement of the event because of the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa; Morocco was ruled out as a host country and replaced by Equatorial Guinea.

The ranking was calculated using teams’ results in the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, 2013 Africa Cup of Nations finals and qualifiers, the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations finals and qualifiers, the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations finals, and the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

The Black Stars were placed into Group C with Algeria, Senegal and South Africa; all the games but one were played in Estadio de Mongomo.

The Ghanaian final squad was announced on 7 January 2015, with numerous players coming from Premier League, Serie A and Ligue 1 rosters.

Jordan Ayew, Christian Atsu, Asamoah Gyan, Daniel Amartey, Mubarak Wakaso and André Ayew were some of the players that led the team to a historic run.

19 January 2015, the Black Stars started the tournament with a loss against Senegal, with the final score of 1–2.