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Ryan Nelsen will leave QPR to take over Major League Soccer club Toronto FC

Image: Ryan Nelsen: Appointed as manager of Major League Soccer club Toronto FC

QPR defender Ryan Nelsen is leaving the struggling Premier League side to take over as manager of Major League Soccer club Toronto FC, it has been confirmed.

Nelsen is clear that there will be no playing role for him back in MLS, having made his name there during a four-year spell with DC United - another club he was recently linked to. The move to Canada will see him link up once against with the club's president and general manager Kevin Payne, who was an executive at DC United when Nelsen played there. "From the day Ryan arrived in D.C. as a 23 year old player, I always knew he would be a head coach someday," Payne said. "I believe his leadership qualities, intelligence, preparation and character will contribute to his success as a coach. I couldn't ask for a better person to lead our club."

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