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Jesse Alan Marsch (born November 8, 1973) is an American professional soccer coach and former player who is the current head coach of Premier League club Leeds United. Marsch played 14 seasons as a midfielder in Major League Soccer (MLS) with D.C. United, Chicago Fire, and Chivas USA, winning three league titles and four U.S. Open Cup titles, as well as earning two caps for the United States national team.

Jesse Marsch

Marsch in 2019
Personal information
Birth name	Jesse Alan Marsch[1]
Date of birth	(1973-11-08) November 8, 1973 (age 49)
Place of birth	Racine, Wisconsin, U.S.
Height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Club information
Current team	Leeds United (head coach)
College career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1992–1995	Princeton Tigers
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1996–1997	D.C. United	15	(4)
1998–2005	Chicago Fire	200	(19)
2006–2009	Chivas USA	106	(8)
Total		321	(31)
National team
2001–2007	United States	2	(0)
Teams managed
2011–2012	Montreal Impact
2015–2018	New York Red Bulls
2019–2021	Red Bull Salzburg
2021	RB Leipzig
2022–	Leeds United
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

In 2010, Marsch retired from his playing career and became a coach, first serving as an assistant with the U.S. national team under Bob Bradley that reached the last 16 of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. He then became the inaugural head coach of the Montreal Impact upon its entry to MLS in 2012. In 2015, after a year-long stint as the assistant coach for his alma mater, the Princeton Tigers, Marsch was hired as head coach of the New York Red Bulls and stayed in the role through the first half of the 2018 MLS season. In his first year coaching the team, the Red Bulls won the Supporters' Shield and Marsch was named MLS Coach of the Year. Marsch holds the record for most wins by a coach in franchise history.

In 2018, Marsch was appointed as an assistant coach at German Bundesliga club RB Leipzig under Ralf Rangnick; the team placed third in the league, was runner-up in the German Cup, and competed in the UEFA Europa League. The following season, Marsch was appointed the successor to Marco Rose as coach of Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga; he led the club to a league and cup double in two consecutive seasons, as Salzburg made successive Champions League group stage appearances for the first time in club history. He returned to RB Leipzig as club coach for the 2021–22 season, leaving by mutual consent in December and joining Leeds United in February.

Playing career

College

Marsch played college soccer for Princeton University, where he was an All-American in 1995 after scoring 16 goals as a midfielder and forward.

Professional

Marsch was brought in by D.C. United (their assistant coach was his coach at Princeton, Bob Bradley) in the third round of the 1996 MLS College Draft. Marsch spent the next two seasons with D.C. United, but played in only 15 games. D.C. assistant coach Bob Bradley, named to lead the expansion Chicago Fire, acquired Marsch soon after the Expansion Draft in exchange for A. J. Wood and a second-round pick in the 1998 College Draft. Marsch immediately became a regular in Chicago and remained a mainstay in their lineup through 2005. He helped the Fire to the 1998 MLS Cup, giving him three league championships in three seasons. While with Chicago, he also won the U.S. Open Cup in 1998, 2000 and 2003.

After the 2005 season, Marsch was transferred to Chivas USA, where Bradley was then coaching. At the time, he left the Fire as the club's all-time leader in regular season games played with 200 (he now sits sixth behind C. J. Brown, Logan Pause, Gonzalo Segares, Zach Thornton and Chris Armas). Marsch is one of three players to have played in each of the first 14 seasons of Major League Soccer. On February 5, 2010, he announced his retirement after four seasons with Chivas to enter coaching.[2]

International

Marsch received two caps with the United States national team. His first came as a substitute in a scoreless World Cup qualifier tie away to Trinidad and Tobago on November 11, 2001;[3] the other came on June 2, 2007 in a 4–1 friendly win against China in San Jose, California.[4]

Coaching career

Early career

Following his retirement, Marsch was hired as an assistant to his former college and club coach Bob Bradley with the United States men's national team.[5] Marsch remained with the U.S. program until Bradley's firing in July 2011.

In August 2011, Marsch was unveiled as the first head coach of Major League Soccer expansion franchise Montreal Impact, starting play in 2012.[6] In their first MLS game on March 10, the team lost 2–0 at fellow Canadians Vancouver Whitecaps FC.[7] The club finished in 12th place with 42 points. After that one season, Marsch left the club in November 2012. Though team management had been emphatic about their satisfaction with Marsch's work, the differences in coaching philosophies between Marsch and the management of the club led to an "amicable" split.[8]

New York Red Bulls

In January 2015, Marsch was named head coach of New York Red Bulls, replacing Mike Petke.[9] In his first season at the helm, Marsch led New York to the MLS Supporters' Shield[10] and a club record 18 league victories and 60 points and was named the MLS Coach of the Year.[11] After a successful start to his career, the Red Bulls extended his contract in June 2016, offering Marsch a multi-year deal.[12]

In January 2017, Marsch was linked to taking over for Óscar García as the manager of Austrian club FC Red Bull Salzburg.[13] However, both New York Red Bulls and Red Bull Salzburg denied the reports.[14][15] In July 2018, Marsch left the Red Bulls as the coach with the most wins in the club's history, with a record of 75–32–44. Chris Armas followed as new head coach.[16]

Assistant at RB Leipzig

Marsch became assistant to RB Leipzig head coach Ralf Rangnick for the 2018–19 season, signing a two-year contract in July 2018.[17] During Marsch's tenure as an assistant for Leipzig, he was tasked with organizing the team's training sessions and preparing them for opponents.[18] Marsch helped lead them to the group stage of the UEFA Europa League, where the team finished third in their group and bowed out of the competition.[19] He further helped Rangnick lead the team to third place in the team's Bundesliga campaign, and to the final of the DFB-Pokal before falling to Bayern Munich in the final. Marsch ultimately left the team after one season to replace Marco Rose as coach of Leipzig's sister club Red Bull Salzburg.

Red Bull Salzburg

Marsch was officially presented as head coach of Red Bull Salzburg on June 6, 2019.[20] In his first season in charge, Marsch led Salzburg to winning the double. The team won the Austrian Bundesliga by winning 68.75% of their games; 12 points ahead of second place Rapid Wien making Marsch the first American coach to win a top flight league title in Europe. The team also won the Austrian Cup 5–0 against Austria Lustenau.

During the 2020–21 season, Marsch led Salzburg to their third successive cup win, Marsch's second as coach, in a 3–0 win against LASK.[21] Salzburg also won the Bundesliga, making it two doubles in a row.

RB Leipzig

Marsch was announced as the new head coach of RB Leipzig starting from the 2021–22 season, replacing Julian Nagelsmann.[22][23] Marsch won his first competitive match as Leipzig head coach 4–0 against SV Sandhausen in the DFB-Pokal.[24] Leipzig then lost their season's opening Bundesliga match 1–0 to Mainz 05.[25] Marsch won his first Bundesliga match against VfB Stuttgart on matchday two.[25] Under Marsch, Leipzig lost their opening 2021–22 UEFA Champions League fixture 6–3 to Manchester City.[25] On December 5, 2021, Marsch and Leipzig announced that they had mutually agreed to part ways.[26] He finished with a record of seven wins, four draws, and six losses.[27]

Leeds United

On February 28, 2022, Marsch was appointed as head coach of Premier League side Leeds United and signed a three-year deal following the departure of Marcelo Bielsa.[28] He was the third American national to manage in the Premier League, after Bob Bradley and German-born David Wagner.[29] The British press remarked that Marsch would have to combat prejudiced attitudes toward American soccer coaches.[30][31]

In Marsch's first game as Leeds coach, the team lost 1–0 at Leicester City on March 5;[32] they won at the third attempt eight days later, 2–1 at home to Norwich City.[33] On May 22, Marsch guided Leeds to a 2–1 win away at Brentford to help the club avoid relegation in 17th position; it was the first time since 2011 that a team survived despite being in the relegation zone at the start of the final day.[34]

Personal life

Marsch was born and raised in Racine, Wisconsin, where he attended Jerome I. Case High School.[35] He and his wife Kim have three children – one daughter and two sons.[36] Apart from his native English, Marsch also speaks fluent German which he learned late at 44 years old prior to his move to Austria as Red Bull Salzburg coach as well as his time with RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga.[37]

Coaching statistics

As of match played 12 November 2022[38]

Coaching record by team and tenure

Team	From	To	Record								Ref
			G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Montreal Impact	August 10, 2011	November 4, 2012	36	12	7	17	45	53	−8	033.33	[39]
New York Red Bulls	January 7, 2015	July 6, 2018	151	75	32	44	256	175	+81	049.67	[40]
Red Bull Salzburg	June 6, 2019	June 30, 2021	94	64	13	17	290	113	+177	068.09	[41]
RB Leipzig	July 1, 2021	December 5, 2021	21	8	4	9	43	31	+12	038.10
Leeds United	February 28, 2022	Present	28	9	6	13	38	46	−8	032.14
Total			330	168	62	100	672	416	+256	050.91

Honors

Player

D.C. United

• MLS Cup: 1996, 1997
• Supporters' Shield: 1997
• U.S. Open Cup: 1996

Chicago Fire

• MLS Cup: 1998
• Supporters' Shield: 2003
• U.S. Open Cup: 1998, 2000, 2003

Coach

New York Red Bulls

• Supporters' Shield: 2015, 2018

Red Bull Salzburg

• Austrian Bundesliga: 2019–20, 2020–21
• Austrian Cup: 2019–20, 2020–21

Individual

• MLS Coach of the Year: 2015

References

External links

• Jesse Marsch at Major League Soccer
• Jesse Marsch at FootballDatabase.eu
• Jesse Marsch at National-Football-Teams.com
• Jesse Marsch at Soccerway.com
• Jesse Marsch at WorldFootball.net

На других языках

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[de] Jesse Marsch

Jesse Alan Marsch (* 8. November 1973 in Racine, Wisconsin) ist ein ehemaliger US-amerikanischer Fußballspieler und heutiger -trainer. Insgesamt war er 14 Jahre als Spieler in der Major League Soccer aktiv und gewann in dieser Zeit mit seinen Mannschaften dreimal den MLS Cup und viermal den Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Anfang 2010 startete er als Co-Trainer bei der US-Nationalmannschaft, ehe eineinhalb Jahre später mit Montreal Impact seine erste Station als Cheftrainer folgte. Nach dreieinhalb Jahren bei den New York Red Bulls wurde Marsch im Sommer 2018 Co-Trainer bei RB Leipzig und wechselte ein Jahr später als Cheftrainer zum FC Red Bull Salzburg. Von Juli bis Dezember 2021 trainierte er RB Leipzig, seit Februar 2022 ist er Cheftrainer von Leeds United.

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- [en] Jesse Marsch

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[es] Jesse Marsch

Jesse Marsch (Racine, Wisconsin, Estados Unidos, 8 de noviembre de 1973) es un exfutbolista y actual entrenador estadounidense, el primero en ganar tres MLS Cup. Actualmente dirige al Leeds United de la Premier League de Inglaterra.

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[fr] Jesse Marsch

Jesse Marsch est un joueur puis entraîneur de football né le 8 novembre 1973 à Racine dans le Wisconsin. Il évolue au poste de milieu défensif dans les années 1990 et 2000, avant d'exercer comme entraîneur à partir de 2010.

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[it] Jesse Marsch

Jesse Marsch (Racine, 8 novembre 1973) è un allenatore di calcio ed ex calciatore statunitense, di ruolo centrocampista, tecnico del Leeds United.

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[ru] Марш, Джесси

Дже́сси А́лан Марш (англ. Jesse Alan Marsch; 8 ноября 1973, Расин, Висконсин, США) — американский футболист, выступавший на позиции полузащитника, и футбольный тренер. В настоящее время — главный тренер клуба английской Премьер-лиги «Лидс Юнайтед».

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