Roald Poulsen is a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 manager, who most prominently won the 1989 Danish championship

Danish football champions

The Danish football champions are the winners of the highest league of football in Denmark. The title has been contested since 1913, in a varying form of competitions. Since 1991, the winners have been found through the Danish Superliga championship...

 with Odense BK

Odense BK

Odense Boldklub is a Danish professional football club based in the town of Odense. The club has won three Danish championships and five Danish Cup trophies. OB play in the Danish Superliga and their home field is TRE-FOR Park in Odense on Funen...

 and managed the Zambia national football team

Zambia national football team

The Zambia national football team represents the country of Zambia in the sport of association football and is governed by the Football Association of Zambia. Before independence they were known as the Northern Rhodesia national football team. The side is nicknamed Chipolopolo as copper is one of...

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Poulsen started his coaching career with amateur club OKS. From 1983 to 1987, he managed B 1913. From 1988 to 1992, Poulsen managed Odense BK

Odense BK

Odense Boldklub is a Danish professional football club based in the town of Odense. The club has won three Danish championships and five Danish Cup trophies. OB play in the Danish Superliga and their home field is TRE-FOR Park in Odense on Funen...

, with whom he won the 1989 Danish championship

Danish football champions

The Danish football champions are the winners of the highest league of football in Denmark. The title has been contested since 1913, in a varying form of competitions. Since 1991, the winners have been found through the Danish Superliga championship...

 and 1992 Danish Cup

Danish Cup

The Danish Cup is the official "knockout" cup competition in Danish football, run by the Danish Football Association. The cup has been contested annually since 1955...

 tournament. From 1993 to 1994, Poulsen managed Viborg FF

Viborg FF

Viborg FF is a Danish professional football club located in Viborg. The full name of the club is Viborg Fodsports Forening , but the name is frequently abbreviated as Viborg FF or VFF. The club was founded in 1896, but would have to wait more than a century before winning its only countrywide...

. In 1994, Poulsen was named manager of the Zambia national football team

Zambia national football team

The Zambia national football team represents the country of Zambia in the sport of association football and is governed by the Football Association of Zambia. Before independence they were known as the Northern Rhodesia national football team. The side is nicknamed Chipolopolo as copper is one of...

, which he managed until 1996. He returned to Odense BK in 1996, and brought with him Zambian internationals Mwape Miti

Mwape Miti

Mwape Miti is a former Zambian football striker.He has played 246 matches and scored 109 goals for his team Odense BK, having joined them in the summer of 1997 from Power Dynamos. Prior to that he played for Mulungushi Chiefs. In the 2003-04 season he became joint top league goalscorer with 19...

 and Andrew Tembo

Andrew Tembo

Andrew Tembo is a Zambian football midfielder with Ølstykke in Denmark.Tembo previously played 284 matches and scored 15 goals for Odense BK, having joined them in the summer of 1997 from Olympique Marseille, where he had a short spell. Prior to that he played for Zamsure FC.Tembo has 35 caps for...

. In 1998, he moved to Qatar

Qatar

Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...

 in order to manage Al-Rayyan Sports Club, staying at the club until 1999.

From 1999 to 2004 he led the FC Copenhagen Sports College in South Africa

South Africa

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, only interrupted by a brief spell as national manager of Zambia in 2002. He coached South African club Engen Santos from 2004 to 2005. In 2005, Poulsen returned to Denmark to manage Dalum IF

Dalum IF

Dalum IF is a Danish association football club currently playing in the Denmark Series pool 2. They play at Dalum Stadion in the southern Odense on Funen, which has a capacity of 4,000...

. He moved in B 1913 in 2006, before moving to FC Fyn

FC FYN

FC Fyn is a Danish football club from Odense on Funen. Its first appearance was in the 2006-07 season.FC Fyn plays their home matches at Odense Atletikstadion, which is the current home ground of B 1909 and B 1913. The first manager was former Zambia national coach Roald Poulsen...

 later that year. He stayed at FC Fyn until December 2007.

In January 2009 he was named technical director of Cape United Soccer School of Excellence in Cape Town

Cape Town

Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...

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