– What is your goal then?
The question surprised me.
I have been standing in the sun, enjoying the welcome spring warmth First picture IP and paced Hammarby training during any hour. Then buzzed a bit with Philip Haglund and talked about a coach whose legendary status seems to grow with every Premier Division game.
Suddenly he stands there.
Nanne Bergstrand has crept forward a little and take a look now uppfodrande up on me.
– In life, I wonder. Or, in this interview?
– Life, responds Bergstrand in an obvious way.
It’s not exactly how I usually start my interviews, and ill I mumble something about Cases shifts well, depending where you are in life.
– It was boring, smiling philosopher Bergstrand, without explaining exactly what he means by that.
Instead, he begins gaily pacing nearly dining room. Against the worn wooden exterior, shelter and more spring sun.
And so another interview.
Philip Haglund describes his coach as a guide. A manager who acquire respect through their knowledge, their qualifications and genuine concern.
– If you read the theories in management, this is the flat organization. All have their say and there is a culture where everything is open. There is no hierarchy, says Haglund since couple of years, owns a degree from Stockholm School of Economics.
Nanne Bergstrand will gladly questions, many of which he probably already suspect the answers to.
When they in turn pose questions to Bergstrand, then you have to be on your toes so you do not miss any of the answers.
Something important.
So, although this time.
The newcomer Hammarby start to the Premier League is somewhat sensational.
Seven points in three games against strong opponents on paper, and a lawsuit on Tele 2 arena that crushed most international resistance I experienced during my career at the press box.
So what do you think about the league so far, Nanne?
– Now I have seen the teams we to meet, and it has been the top team. It’s been good matches, quite fast-paced games. We have not encountered so many teams from the bottom half, so I have not seen much of them. Seen gap was located. Although we know that a lot of changes along the way.
How much of impressions is characterized by the stunning back drop we’ve been through in the stadiums?
– A lot.
Can you weed out the atmosphere in the stands and just focus solely on what happens on the pitch?
– Yes, it has the trained up. This is a prerequisite if you will coach Hammarby for example. It’s a bit disappointing, given the setting we have in our home games. Therefore, I try the remaining few minutes afterwards and suck it all the time.
Djurgården lost two of three tight matches, took a score of nine possible and immediately appeared a doomsday atmosphere around the team …
– … yes, it is a Stockholm-syndrome. Or, metropolitan syndrome.
– You should be aware of what football sells, namely expectations. Experiences. Even before the game started to have you removed it to go well. And that’s fine, but the difference between expectations and requirements are subtle.
– The marketing sells the expectations that have been with success to do. It is their approach. When not successful, then it will be a counterforce of disappointment. These expectations on the experience spelled course, if you look at it philosophically: “Make me happy!”.
– But we know that happiness will never outside, it comes from within. It is the result of a consistency that we made an inside job. This equation can never get together.
What can we draw conclusions after 270 minutes of Premier Division football?
– I think you need up in 900 minutes … or what will?
Ten games, it might even I figure out …
– … yes, they say ten games. Before you get a real picture.
– But they tipped top teams will be up there, it has proven its inception. If there will be contenders? It takes probably 900 minutes to see.
But you’ve already beaten both AIK and Djurgården – and we’re only in April. Is not Hammarby best in Sta’N?
– There may be probably the premier league table to decide in the end.
You wait 27 rounds with your answer?
– Yes. But we have begun well.
Depends part of the success so far in the underestimation of resistance?
– Secure.
How long can you help it?
– Not for long, I think.
The point is ticking up.
The stadium sells out.
A long-term vision of a more paced football may slowly develop in peace and quiet.
Are there no dark clouds in the sky in Hammarby country?
– We do not have a training facility (Årsta IP) that is suitable for a allsvenskt law today. We can not even irrigate our plan well enough. When the sun is up like this so it dries quickly. Today, you could irrigate half the pitch, so went the (sprinkler) apart, sighs Nanne Bergstrand.
– And here we do not get more plans. For me it is not important that we have a green here, but to have the best possible conditions to achieve this goal pace. Teach the players act in a higher speed, carry more speed runs and engage the game idea in it.
Can you see personal goals in his career beyond Hammarby?
– I have said that I’m still in Hammarby as long as I feel the future. Then, some will involve the development environment here.
– I have a contract relating to 2017, right? But I will not be left in Hammarby
Are there any offer you could not refuse?
– No. But it depends on what I am and want right then. So I do not think you should say that.
How have you changed since you came to Stockholm?
– The feeling when I came here was that I got being through so much already. Champions League, helped build a national championship in a small town (Kalmar FF). I had no more to prove. It gives a feeling of peace. The peace I felt when I arrived, and who met me was the enormous confidence in Hammarby.
– The I still feel, confidence in the future. But peace is also there.
2015 is the year where football has finally been at the center during the preliminary rounds, and violence (temporarily?) Forced to flee.
Bengal debate seems to never lose momentum and there is Nanne Bergstrand’s perception as clear as day:
– So, Bengalis are nothing positive for a coach. Interruptions and more. For me it is no enhancing mood. It is very often those who have Bengals are showing their faces. They have masks to conceal who they are.
– I took offense at me at the last game last year against Jönköping Södra. When we qualified us for the headlines and people ran onto the pitch. There were kids running with out on the pitch and so was the Bengals next. Unpleasant things.
– The question is what we want. Do we want the love of football or do we want this hatred? Bengals are no expressions of love for football. I have damn hard to see.
But the focus has still got to be in the right place so far this Allsvenskan, namely the sport. How naive are you if you think we are heading in the right direction now?
– It’s like a match that teeters. There is still so much hate and fear in the community, which comes to football, too.
– Right now, the love of football that leads it all. But it is there in the shade: hatred. The fear. It’s the opposite poles, love and hate. It can strike at any time.
I certainly would like to believe in your vision. At the same time one becomes hardened after 15 years in the industry where I have seen many “new” vision quickly scrapped and visionaries to leaders chased away when the results come. Not least in Hammarby. Why would your situation not be as fragile now?
– If you win a few games, then would also forget the Premier League. Then the requirements that should be there (at the top) all the time. If it is not so, then what? I agree with you, it’ll be damn interesting.
– Where it can be an advantage as coaches have the ability to opt out of it and look at, even if you are in the middle of shit. Having the perspective is something very important if one is to be the coach of Hammarby.
A more interesting game is hard to find.
And a better measure of value learning hardly be right now.
It is the advance two far the most hyped teams met at the Swedbank Stadium tonight – super team Malmo FF v audience locomotive Hammarby.
What do you see most looking forward to in the game?
– The totality, I think. I look forward to every minute, from when the referee blows the whistle again until he blows it off. That’s what we can influence. There, turn off the audience during the 90 minutes. But it will be a battle in itself.
What has surprised you with your team this year?
– We saw heavy during the preseason. As we finished Premier League so we were fine. It went well and we did a lot of goals. Then we did an analysis job, that players must become more resistant and we started the project of building up the muscles more on the players.
– It has affected, in combination with the training camp rips down. We did not look good at the beginning of March. But when we then went out of the cup against Elfsborg and until the dress rehearsal against Brann came there any kind of excuse. We see rappers out now.
As you were then heavy when you knocked out AIK from the Cup?
– We played so tactically, with a fembackslinje in first half – so we could hide it a little. There was a reason that we used that tactic.
We talked about Kennedy for the season, you and me. If he could be one of the best players in the league. How do you see it today?
– It is enormously gratifying as a coach to have a player of the team when it becomes free kick around the offensive penalty, it is a chance to score. There is no such guarantors of all teams. He said yourself that it feels like a penalty kick. It provides many easy targets, perhaps the first goal in the game that allows opponents must open up.
– He is much fitter now than he was when we began last year. He is a completely different player.
Finally balls I returned the same question to you: What are your goals in life?
– Yes .. . to help people. Help them gain perspective. A little philosophical, helping people develop.
Are you talking only about football then?
– Football and life.
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