Janne Andersson is on the other side of Chorzów, as many sellers have represented as the national team captain.
– We have a clear idea! Come and buy!
He’s curious, and I’m convinced he’s won the guys over, too.
It may sound humiliating, but that’s how it should be, that’s how his mission looks now.
Jan Anderson He doesn’t have a restroom to point at, he doesn’t need to talk about guest workers, training camps or LGBTQ rights at WC hotels. He just needs to sell a new idea, a new dream for Swedish football.
He must speak directly to everyone. For the press, for the public, for the players.
Everyone should join in, and everyone should feel like ‘Yeah, no, this with the national team might not be that stupid after all’. During my life, Sweden had never had a leader in the league who was so skilled at communication, so he is a perfect fit for this situation. “New” is the key word for a team that has just been knocked out of the tournament after a series of shady and ineffective attempts away from home.
Sweden doesn’t have a new coach (it’s a discussion you can bring to Anderson at your own risk), the new thing that consists of challenging the Nations League is not something that sparks a burning desire in people’s heart either.
leftovers make it fresh player. There is a new one left the way of playing.
I have a requirement for the leaders of the league
This is what Janne Andersson now stands for and sells to the masses. The first thing he did was to congratulate the national under-17 team that beat Denmark in yesterday’s European Championship premiere, the second was to do a quick intense but quarter-length analysis of the national team’s journey in recent years, and the third was to talk about relegation. Forward goal setting: forward, future, continuation.
When it comes to league captains, I have only one requirement, and that is that they must have a clear vision of what they want – and implement in all parts a method of action that can lead to the realization of that vision. I want to understand why they do what they do, I trust it can lead to where they want. They can be very offensive or very sarcastic, no matter what, as long as they know what they are doing and maximize their football result.
Jan Anderson has never disappointed me in this way. I understood why he hadn’t made any revolutions the day before, and why he and Peter Wettergren They sneaked into rebalancing based on player material rather than thinking that a couple of quick training sessions on Bosön or Friends would be enough to change the fundamentals of a five-year build game.
And I understand exactly why they want to change now. Because they have to. Because if it doesn’t happen now, it never will.
This is the challenge for the national team
I really wanted to see Sweden at the World Cup – not that I’m more fond of dead guest worker yards and persecution of minorities than most others – for the simple reason that I was curious what would happen to this young national team if they got a long national team camp to be able to up their game. Now it didn’t, so it should be like that instead.
“like him”? I’d be surprised if it means Sweden has completely abandoned their four-way defensive line (or mixed backline, if you will), the challenge being to wear in an attacking match with a central striker and them both out. To solve the division of roles between them, find the correct positions.
Dejan Kulusevski’s last six months make him an obvious key to the path of progression, a two-way midfielder who can defend (Tottenham’s style of play could suit Sweden too, even if it’s a 3-4-3 alternative). Alexander Isaacs is very used to playing centrally as one of the three attacking players at Real. Emil Forsberg can play as a number 10 or on the left, and he will want to steer the national team to a new offensive idea.
Already curious about what they have to sell
This is not all, of course. Anderson directed Gabriel Gudmundsson (of course now) and Joel Anderson (who also has the traits of a back winger), he has free-flying Jesper Carlson to play with, and two or three other exciting alternatives (Elanga and Svanberg in particular). And the door has opened for Hjalmar Ekdal, which is very interesting – and possibly plausible, too, to show up.
All coaches want time and patience, and so do Jan Anderson and Peter Wettergren. They say the Nations League is important, but the process is more important, and the goal is to get a new, better national team in time for next spring’s European Championship qualifiers.
Shall we do it sometime, said Anderson, for it is now.
Come and buy. I’m really curious about what they should be selling. I wasn’t when we left Chorzo.
