Who is Oliver Glasner and what can Palace fans expect from their new boss?
Oliver Glasner guided Eintracht Frankfurt to Europa League glory in 2022 (Zac Goodwin/PA)
Oliver Glasner has been appointed manager of Crystal Palace.
The former Eintracht Frankfurt head coach succeeds Roy Hodgson at Selhurst Park.
Here, the PA news agency takes a closer look at the 49-year-old.
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Glasner was born in 1974 in Austria. He spent his entire playing career, between 1992 and 2011, in his homeland. Aside from a loan spell with Linz-based LASK, the defender was a one-club man, playing 571 times for SV Ried. Glasner twice won the Austrian Cup with Ried and in 1995 helped the club reach the Austrian Bundesliga for the first time. His playing career ended just days short of his 37th birthday after he suffered a subdural haematoma following a clash of heads with Rapid Vienna’s Mario Sonnleitner.
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Following retirement, Glasner became a sporting co-ordinator at Red Bull Salzburg. He was later named assistant to Salzburg boss Roger Schmidt before returning to Ried as head coach for the 2014-15 season. A year later, he was appointed coach and sporting director at his other former club, LASK, and led them to promotion in 2017 followed by a fourth-placed finish. LASK missed out on a place in the Europa League on away goals against Besiktas but finished second the following season. Glasner then elevated his global reputation
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