He led his team in the morning.
But now Rijkaard Norling will never be able to meet his players at IFK Norrköping again.
For Sportbladet, the coach tells what he thinks about poor results, what club IFK Norrköping thinks of and feelings after the news.
– It doesn’t work out that players write a poem in honor of one of them and perform it in symbiosis, says Norling.
On Monday, Sporeblade was able to reveal it IFK Norrköping He decided to fire the coach Richard Norling. Then the club’s president, Sakaryas Mourde, announced that the reason for the separation was written “Sports results”.
Ricard Norling himself received the message from IFK Norrköping at 1:00 after the team’s morning training. He thinks emotions will creep in now.
– It will definitely be more emotional the more interviews you do. Now I’m in a position to focus on representing myself and expressing what I can stand up for myself, says Norling and continues:
And I want to show respect to those who deserve respect and gratitude because I was a coach for a year and a half at a very nice club. When I’m done, I think I’ll probably sink into the couch or armchair and let the feelings take me where they want to go.
Norling about the letter from Norrköping
Where will feelings take you next?
– I think it would be extreme, to be angry that we did not achieve better results. I enjoyed it a lot, it was great moments with the fans and above all an absolutely wonderful daily life with two great coaching teams. Both last year and this.
– You’ve developed so that it cracks itself and the players are the ones you get emotional when you think you had to deal with them. They have gone straight to the heart of one of them and it is a team of players who have worked insanely crazy for their development and for the development of the team and the club. So it will probably be a little heavy when you start to settle down.
Norling did not say goodbye to the player’s team because he received the message after training. He had to make do with hugging the other coaches.
The players were at home when I got the message and it’s good that you are. It does not work until players write a poem honoring one of them and perform it in symbiosis. This is more than just ‘strict business’ in a way.
You don’t want to answer: “It helps no one.”
Norling buys IFK Norrköping’s motivation that the results were too weak. IFK Norrköping is 11th in the Allsvenskan.
– That’s it, the results are not good enough as they are now. To me, this is not so strange, I have no problem mentioning it. I’m in a game and I can handle it. There are no strange things.
Did you feel like you were on the right track and could have gotten better during the fall?
– I feel like we had to fight like a thousand and they still needed it to get direction in the inevitable direction at the same time. Because there is so much potential in the club and it’s only a matter of time when I managed to get it out more than anything else.
A few days ago, Sacharias Mourde gave a high-profile interview to Norrköpings Tidingar in which he talked about Norling having to pick his own new acquisitions but the results are not up yet. Norling does not want to comment on the cooperation with the club’s management.
– I actually don’t want to go into it. It serves no purpose, I simply leave it at that. It doesn’t help anyone that I… I just left it very simple, Norling says.
It is preferable to talk about all the people around the club. Among others SLO Frederic Nelson who writes Twitter That it was “magical” and “an honor” to work with Norling.
It facilitates my work and communication with fans, and helps get them to thrive. He’s “up front” and obviously when he’s close to me, I also grow. Norling says he’s only honored that he thinks so.
– Leadership staff, training staff, those closest to one of them, media, cleaning crews, caretakers, security personnel and our SLOs. Vivan what good people. They deserve so much, they fight hard and from my point of view working with them has been well known.
“I’ve always said it – I support it”
When do you go back to the field after sinking on the couch?
I love being a football coach, that’s by far the best I know. This passion will be there tomorrow. Today I went to rehearsal and felt like something might happen when I got a text that they wanted to meet me before we even started. But even then, I walked around and enjoyed the fact that I was already a football coach more than I was focused on what might happen.
Feelings about the phenomenon of being a football coach are very strong in me. I will die either under my wife or in the technical staff. That’s what I’ve always said and I support it.
Are you back soon?
Norling ends the conversation with a loud laugh.
– That’s how you express it. Short and brief, saucy. very well. You’ll answer it yourself, we’d have gotten away with the five minutes to draw.