Grönborg takes over Three Crowns – Göteborgs-Posten

Richard Grönborg takes over as coach of the Three Crowns.

In a preliminary talk has it, in principle, been the only name put forward – Junior crown head coach Rikard Grönborg.

While the incumbent coach Pär Mårts has brought Grönborg as his successor.

On Tuesday came the news from the Swedish Ice Hockey Federation. As gp.se said Tuesday it will Rikard Grönborg that takes over the Three Crowns.

As assistant national coaches he gets Johan Garpenlöv and Peter Popovic.

Their contract terms in May 2016 and three years.

In addition, there will be three advisers who will work closely with the national team: NHL legends Daniel Alfredsson, Nicklas Lidstrom and Mats Sundin. Presentation superfluous.

– We have chosen to test a new system for over a year. Then we take a decision whether we should continue with it, says Tommy Boustedt, development manager of the Swedish Ice Hockey Federation.

Grönborg is 47 years old, has gone the long way and had many of the union of different training tasks.

He has been assistant tränarr for the U20 national team. Grönborg succeeded Roger Rönnberg, now in Frölunda, who captained the Junior crowns for the 2013/2014 season.

He is best known perhaps for the quarrel with the Russian coach Oleg Znarok during the semi-final, which Russia won, at the latest JVM : et

The semifinal between the teams ended heated when the Russian coach Oleg Znarok made a threatening gesture against Richard Grönborg After Mikael Backlund tackled the Russian Sergei Plotkinov after the whistle.

Znarok and Grönborg shouted at each other . It jhela ended with Znarok drug thumb against the neck. Some interpreted as a direct death threats. Meanwhile shouted Grönborg “I’ll fucking kill you” (I’ll fucking kill you).

Grönborg took a JVM-silver – in Sweden – in its first year as principal and has also been assistant coach of the three crowns since 2011.

Pär Mårts, who has been responsible for the Three Crowns since 2010, has konytrakt to May next year and will continue to coach the season. He ends with the World Cup in Russia in May next year.

Green’s first big tournament is the World Cup in September 2016.

Richard Grönborg has never trained a senior teams.

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Sweden’s national coaches of the 2000s:

2000-2002: Anders Hedberg

2002 to 2004: Hardy Nilsson

2004-2010: Bengt-Ake Gustafsson

2010-2016: Pär Mårts

2016-2019: Rikard Grönborg