MAJORSTUEN (Nettavisen): Erik “Myggen” Mykland is undoubtedly one of the best Norwegian midfielders of all time.
In the 1990s, he was a key part of the national team led by Egil Drillo Olsen and played in the WC for Norway in both 1994 and 1998. At club level, he is perhaps best remembered for his time in IK Start, although he was also abroad in FC Linz, Panathinaikos, 1860 Munich and FC Copenhagen.
Today, the 53-year-old is still part of the Start system, as a player developer and coach for the club’s G15 team.
Straight: Watch Vålerenga against Lyn on Nettavisen and Direktesport Saturday 17.00
In his glory days, Myggen had the opportunity to be a part of Oslo football. A coach with links to both Vålerenga and Lyn tried to lure the midfielder to the capital.
Davidsen: – Very close
Vidar Davidsen managed Vålerenga between 1993 and 1997, before he later managed Lyn for a few seasons.
Davidsen has told before Nettavisen about when he tried to bring Swedish Zlatan Ibrahimovic to the western club. It also shows how close he was to attracting the legendary Start Myggen to the eastern edge of the capital a few years earlier.
– It was as bitter as it was when I was trying to get Myggen to Vålerenga, he says to Nettavisen about the purchase of Zlatan going down the drain.
The VIF hero believes the hard-working midfielder would have been a great match with the Oslo club.
– It would have been a dream in the 1990s with that style of play and that image of Myggen, says Davidsen.
He says the parties were very close to agreeing on a deal that brought Myggen to Oslo.
– It was very close. We had spoken to Myggen several times and I remember we spoke on Friday.
– Then it was really ready, remembers Davidsen.
– Then Myggen was confused
The next day, however, the Vålerenga coach at the time received a phone call from the Risør boy.
– He called the next day and said: “I can’t, I can’t stop Start”. Then he was confused, said Davidsen.
– I think he himself realized that he and Vålerenga were a perfect match. But that’s how it was, he says.
Both Vålerenga and Lyn play in the Obos league this season and meet on Saturdays. The east side club is on the move and moving steadily towards promotion, and Lyn has also kept a close eye on the table in what the west side club is returning to. the best football.
Mykland’s former club, IK Start, also plays in the same division, but is struggling at the bottom of the table.
However, with a hard autumn, Lyn can also hinder the fight for promotion, as the record looks at the moment.
Vålerenga moved down from the Eliteserien in 2023 and there are high expectations for the team to return directly. Lyn, on the other hand, moved up again to the second highest level before this season, after several years in the lower divisions due to a break in 2010.
Although Myggen was thus tried to be brought in by city rivals Vålerenga at the height of his career, he has also been linked with a move to Lyn on several occasions. In 2005 it was published then the head of the club Morgan Andersen that they wanted to bring in the veteran.
It never materialized and instead made a brief comeback for IK Start in 2008.
Also in 2010, when Lyn were relegated to the 6th division, it was reported that Myggen was going to carry the Lyn kit, along with several other heroes, to help the club back from the Norwegian football quagmire. However, he never got on the field.
He didn’t like the attention
According to the Bastionen supporters club, he was never ready before the transfer deadline day on August 31st of that year. It is said that the reason there was never a Lightning game for the national team hero was that he did not like all the attention about a possible return.
Straight: Watch Vålerenga against Lyn on Nettavisen and Direktesport Saturday 17.00
The 53-year-old also has a connection to the club from Oslo-West as his sons Pelle and Jonas were once part of the club’s younger section. Myggen himself then stood as a father coach, along with other parents, for the team.
Now, however, it is player development in IK Start that concerns the man with 78 caps for Norway. He has a total of six seasons behind him with various coaching duties in the southern club and, as mentioned, the main coaching responsibility is for the G15 team.
The mosquito: – A little contempt for me
Last February, Myggen completed the second highest coaching training at the Norwegian Football Association and has the so-called Uefa A license.
– For every year that I have been in Start, I have improved in terms of my own security, but at the same time more question marks have appeared. There is so much you can’t learn as a football coach. You can never be trained as a football coach, he said e to the club’s website in January.
– It is not without reason that I have been here for many years. There’s a lot of emotion involved, and it’s fun to see the boys grow together and become a team. I couldn’t have imagined being anywhere else right now, he could tell.
But he admitted to Fædrelandsvennen in a recent interview that he seems to be looking for new challenges in the future.
– I doubt I will stay here all my life. I have to move on. I’m a little restless, because I’ve been abroad before, he said then.
2024-08-24 05:25:03
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