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So it's official, newly promoted Dalkurd are uprooting the club and moving 500 miles from Borlänge to Uppsala.

Amazing as their journey through the league system is they can frankly go f themselves.

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1 hour ago, sne said:

Olof Mellberg has been given an exemption and will thus be able to manage BP next season in the Allsvenskan even thou he doesn't yet have the right managerial licence :hooray:

Its Olof Mellberg, he doesnt need some licence

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On 11/13/2017 at 14:50, sne said:

So it's official, newly promoted Dalkurd are uprooting the club and moving 500 miles from Borlänge to Uppsala.

Amazing as their journey through the league system is they can frankly go f themselves.

Turns out they will in fact move to Gävle and not Uppsala.

 

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Article about the new IFK Göteborg manager Poya Asbaghi (32 y.o), Graham Potter, Olof Mellberg and the much needed generation change among managers in Sweden.

As  always it's Google translated.

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Blåvitt's choice is a trend break

Younger than their players and without all Swedish merits.

Nevertheless, it became Poya Asbaghi, 32, whose task was to straighten IFK Gothenburg.

In one year the total Swedish coach has become 44 years younger and 493 matches less experienced.

Swedish football has challenged its own system.

It was a thick gray cloud cover that had settled over Östersund. The sun probably kept going down somewhere there while Graham Potter gathered a couple of water glasses in a windowshade at his chancellor.

"Do you know," he said, taking a deep breath.

- In football, the result dictates everything. Too much. It takes a lot of good work, but if a team does not win it will not be interesting. That is why 95 percent of the leagues are determined by economic muscles. We end up in a conservative bubble. If I look at allsvenskan a few years ago, it was a homogeneous league. The same thing happened everywhere. As long as a sports manager bought good players to a coach who did not do a bad job, everyone was satisfied, and then it became a self-fulfilling prophecy: The economy controls.

It climbed in the sink as he put empty coffee cups next to each other.

"As a coach you should be able to do more of what you have. Then it should be. That's the trick. If you have more coaches who do, then club leaders will begin to think: "Wait now, we have spent all of these money, but things are not getting better, people do not develop? We must change our focus. How can we do things better? ".

It was a few months left until he was praised as the country's best coach for the second consecutive year, but Potter's legacy in Sweden will not only be felt in the Dutch football, echoed in the European League or shine in the prize-giving ceremony. 

His biggest leave is outside of Östersund and is about the question: How can we do things better?

Now it has opened the doors of one of Sweden's biggest clubs - IFK Göteborg.

Relevant experiences

When a soccer team hires a coach, the self-disclosure usually contains a small presentation of its characteristics. Among these, it is an attribute that is almost always emphasized, the receipt of the safe restraint in the hands of somebody who knows what is required: Experience. You've heard it a thousand times. 

Why is experience good?

The very basic idea is clearly that the coach has experienced things and learned lessons, these can be used in later work. Here comes a person who has been in the past and recognizes himself. Here comes the experience, the insurance.

I myself often find a misconception: that experience would be timeless and valued no matter what context.

The world is changing and football is often in express speed. Experiences and merits need to be rethought and at the same time translated into new ones. There is sometimes an attitude in both Swedish and international football that suggests that a certain amount of experience or a certain merit gives a sort of "right" to things: Ongoing senior employment despite mixed success (ie no need for reassessment), or prestigious coach work right in the hands of ex-players because they played well themselves.

This sometimes works as an obstacle to development. 

With experience as unconditional dominant competitive advantage, resistance to renewal is created. It inhibits younger English coaches in the shadow of names like Sam Allardyce, Roy Hodgson and Tony Pulis, who subscribe to the same job, but have also to some extent been in Sweden for quite some time.

A big forward move

When IFK Göteborg introduced Poya Asbaghi on Monday, no-one could point to experience - but he stood and represented a single big forward move for IFK Göteborg and for Swedish football.

32 years old, without elite player background and with zero all Swedish matches at the cv, he is just that both Blåvitt and Swedish football have had quite a long time: More current-based evaluation of experience relevance, more focus on method, more focus on performance nature.

Instead of references to this summary word for things that have happened, IFK Göteborg's new coach was allowed to talk about what's going to happen in the future. The motivation for recruitment mainly focused on the way in which work will be used to reach a brighter future, not references to a bright season, which is hoped to rebuild. 

Between the lines, the press conference held that Asbaghi was hired for attracting the training principles and the winning, controlling, flexible and successful game style that he used to enhance his reputation in both Dalkurd and Gefle.

Can not make clearer letters

Even early in the long run "Mats Gren and the wild hunt for the coach", it was clear that Blåvit's wishes followed this trend break. One went after Olof Mellberg and Andreas Brännström instead of a coach name with SM gold on the qualifying list. All three (Mellberg, Brännström, Asbaghi) are coaches without experience of all Swedish wooden benches and without big titles, but with fresh, Swedish football 2018 high-ranking working methods, translated into both performance and results.

What is meant by trend break here? 

It is not possible to write more clearly than this: When all Swedish started in 2017, the total Swedish coaches were 722 years old and had made 1735 matches in the series. When Jimmy Thelin is most likely ready for Elfsborg, the 2018 set will be 678 bast and have 1242 matches in the back, a figure that is still heavily plunged by Nanne Bergstrands 285 battles.

Graham Potter, Axel Kjäll, Joel Cedergren, Poya Asbaghi, Andreas Brännström, Olof Mellberg and Patrick Winqvist go all year into their first ever Swedish job. Jimmy Thelin probably in his second. Kim Bergstrand had 26 matches with BP before returning to Sirius ifjol. Jakob Michelsen one year in Superligan before coming to Hammarby. 

At the same time, a large number of names are missing, which have been diligent in the 21st century.

What we see is a new kind of demand, one that challenges the established coach years and demands that experience be put in a context: Is it relevant to what's coming? Where was it acquired? When? How? In what soccer landscape? 

The system is challenged

There are clearly several reasons why Poya Asbaghi is practicing IFK Göteborg 2018, but in my eyes, no as comprehensive and structural as Graham Potter. 

The longer that afternoon, the more it came to pass that the reality he wanted was the one that attracted him away from England.

Now his success has helped inspire it in Sweden.

"I have been sitting next to so many coaches who have won things pointing to one and the other. And yes they have won. I can not say anything. But in what context have they won? It is a profit sector. It makes us comfortable. As soon as we need to think about things in the future, how they work, then uncertainty comes. How do we create this without a reference point? People are so. We like to refer to things that have happened, he continued while a drill took over the Jämtkraft arena, just a week before the Europa League was to arrive in Östersund.

His hands went down his pockets and his eyes were looking along the floor.

"But I'm watching football and understand why you choose which one chooses. You'd rather hire someone who has done a lot, even if it's not very good, than hiring someone who has not done anything. You have a "method"? So what? This allows us to create a system where it is safe to buy experience even if it costs a lot, where you are afraid to fail. It is up to coaches to develop a toolbox and methods that in any case challenge this system.

Poya Asbaghi has arrived in Gothenburg with his wrench and hammer in the highest cut. It may be a good thing, it's going to be all right, but only 32-year-olds will do the All-American coach debut at Blåvit's bench in April telling us another thing.

https://www.expressen.se/sport/kronikorer/noa-bachner/blavitts-val-ar-ett-trendbrott/

 

 

 

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Breaking news!

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Olof Mellberg leaves the Brommapojkarna. 

Although he has been licensed to train BP next season, the coach chooses not to extend his contract. 

Azrudin Valentic also chooses to leave the club and move on.  

The fact that succéduon leaves the newly-replaced Swedish club will be official shortly. 

As of November 3, SportExpressen could reveal that everything spoke that Olof Mellberg would not train the Brommapojkar next season  - and it seemed that the former national team would take a sabbatical year. 

By 2017 he has had the dispensation from the League, a prerequisite for continuing on next year. And a week ago, it became apparent that Mellberg received the dispensation granted even for 2018. There was therefore no obstacle that he could be head coach when BP had gone up in all Sweden. 

Olof Mellberg has decided 

"The elite license requirement for IF Brommapojkar coaches has been deemed to be met with reference to special reasons. " Wrote SvFF on his website. 

But now it is clear that Mellberg does not extend his contract with the club. 

According to SportExpressen's assignments, he has now taken the final decision to leave the club that he brought up in all Sweden - probably because he instead invested in training as a coach. 

Also Azrudin Valentic leaves

Azrudin Valentic will also leave BP. The fact that succéduon leaves the newly-moved total Swedish club will be official shortly. 

 - There are a lot of emotions. I felt it came crawling in one last minute when I felt it could go the way. Then it was emotional. This is amazing. As these occasions are great, I was with Villarreal when we got up and went up to La Liga. It's a long-term work to be gathered in a short moment. It's emotional, Mellberg said after it was clear that he had taken the Brommapojkar to Sweden. 

SportExpressen has vainly sought club sports director Daniel Majstorovic for a comment. 

https://www.expressen.se/sport/fotboll/allsvenskan/mellberg-lamnar-trots-nya-beslutet/

Will be really interesting to see where they will go

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5 minutes ago, bannedfromHandV said:

Get him on the coaching staff Bruce!!

Sure fire no brainer to getting disillusioned fans on side and probably a smart operational/functional move to.

 

I'd guess he probably lacks the coaching badges required for the Championship if he lacks them for the Allsvenskan.  The special dispensation probably would not have travelled between leagues.

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