Vancouver Whitecaps name Denmark’s Jesper Sorensen as new head coach

Jesper Sørensen in Vancouver on Tuesday January 14, 2024. (CityNews Image)

By The Canadian Press

Posted January 14, 2025 9:29 am.

Last Updated January 14, 2025 11:43 am.

The Vancouver Whitecaps have hired Denmark’s Jesper Sørensen as head coach ahead of the Major League Soccer season. 

The 51-year-old Sorensen comes to Vancouver from Brondby IF in the Danish Superliga where he spent two seasons as head coach following two and a half as an assistant. 

He also spent more than a year as head coach of Denmark’s under-21 national squad. 

Whitecaps sporting director Axel Schuster says in a release that Sørensen’s teams are “well balanced with offensive creativity and defensive organization.”

Sørensen previously played more than 300 matches as a midfielder in Denmark’s top league. 

He replaces exuberant Italian Vanni Sartini, who was fired in mid-November after the Whitecaps finished last season with a mediocre 13-13-8 regular-season record and were ousted from the playoffs in the first round by Los Angeles FC.

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