LEUVEN, Belgium (AP) - Two years after being fired by Leicester, Nigel Pearson is back working under the owners of the English club as coach of second-division Belgian team OH Leuven.
Leuven was recently taken over by the Thailand-based King Power Group, which owns Leicester.
Pearson was fired by Leicester in the offseason of 2015, weeks after keeping the team in the Premier League thanks to a late-season run of results. The club’s owners - the Srivaddhanaprabha family - said at the time that “fundamental differences in perspective exist between” it and Pearson.
Leuven narrowly avoided relegation last season, a year after being demoted from Belgium’s top division.
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