Carlos Banda (footballer, born 1978)

This article is about the football manager. For the Djurgården footballer, his cousin, see Carlos Banda (footballer born 1977).

Carlos Banda (born 28 March 1978) is a Chilean-Swedish football manager. He is the manager of Assyriska FF.^[1]

Carlos Banda

Banda at a press conference on 4 April 2011
Personal information
Date of birth	(1978-03-28) 28 March 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth	Chile
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Assyriska FF (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
0000–1999	FC Café Opera
Managerial career
0000–2003	IF Brommapojkarna (youth coach)
2003–2010	Hammarby IF (youth coach)
2010	Djurgården IF
2011–2012	Djurgården IF (assistant coach)
2012–2016	Hammarby IF (assistant coach)
2017	Vasalunds IF
2018	Assyriska FF
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Banda played his highest level of football in then fourth tier team FC Café Opera, before he retired from football as a player due to a groin injury he had in 1999.^[2] He began coaching youth teams of IF Brommapojkarna and moved on to Stockholm rival Hammarby IF in 2003, to coach in Hammarby's youth organization.^[3]

Banda signed on for his first senior team Djurgården on 3 December 2009.^[4] Along with co-manager Lennart Wass, Banda led his team to a tenth position in the 2010 Allsvenskan.^[5] He stayed with Djurgården as an assistant coach to new manager Magnus Pehrsson until July 2012.

He then returned to Hammarby where he again was assigned the role of assistant manager. A position Banda held during the reigns of three managers: Gregg Berhalter, Thomas Dennerby and Nanne Bergstrand. Ultimately he left Hammarby by mutual consent in June 2016 after four years at the club.^[6]

Personal life

Born in Chile, Banda emigrated to Sweden when he was a child and returned to his country of birth in 1994, having a trial with Universidad Católica thanks to the coach Gino Valentini, who is a friend of his uncle. Then, he returned to Sweden.^[7]

He has gone to Chile to give some football talks.^[8]

References

1. "Carlos Banda ny tränare för Assyriska FF". assyriska.se (in Swedish). Assyriska FF. 4 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
2. "Carlos Banda ny tränare i Djurgården". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 3 December 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
3. Sjögren, Patrik (3 December 2009). "Är inte rädda för att han är ung". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 10 April 2011.
4. Riedel, Jonas (3 December 2009). "Carlos Banda blir Wass kollega". dif.se (in Swedish). Djurgårdens IF Fotboll. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
5. "Tabell och resultat – Allsvenskan, herrar". svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
6. "Hammarby och Carlos Banda går skilda vägar". hammarbyfotboll.se (in Swedish). Hammarby IF Fotboll. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
7. "La historia del desconocido DT chileno que triunfa en Europa | Emol.com". Emol (in Spanish). El Mercurio. 26 August 2010. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
8. "Importantes Personalidades del Fútbol Estuvieron Con Alumnos del Instituto". INAF (in Spanish). 18 November 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2023.