Per Joar Hansen and Lars Lagerbäck have published the book “People and football – 40 years of humor and seriousness”.
In the book get both Norwegian Football Association (NFF), Alexander Sørloth and Norwegian football experts review.
At the press conference in connection with the launch of the book, Per Joar Hansen elaborates on what he thinks about Norwegian football experts.
– Norwegian football experts are perhaps Europe’s worst. They have little professional knowledge, and it’s about making soup on a nail. The way they communicate football is stupefying. It is actually a pity, because it has something to do with the upbringing of the Norwegian people. I stand for 100 percent, says Per Joar Hansen to TV 2.
See what the experts respond to the criticism at the bottom of the case!
– LAUNCHED BOOK: Per Joar Hansen and Lars Lagerbäck. Photo: TV 2
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Hard on TV 2 expert and VG commentator
It is especially VG’s football commentator Knut Espen Svegaarden and TV 2’s football expert Jesper Mathisen who get to review the book.
– Knut Espen “Svea” Svegaarden, who has been a commentator in VG for many years, is a new example of what a commentator without factual knowledge can get himself to write. After Lars and I left – I will come back to that – he has realized that we did not care about the Norwegian Elite Series or Norwegian football in general. This is what he says about Lars Lagerbäck who has trained Kilafors and Hudiksvall in lower divisions, and myself who was born in a broad club in Nordland Football Club, he writes.
– How should one comment at all on how VG handles facts? What can I say? VG knew nothing about how Lars Lagerbäck and I worked with mapping and scouting of Norwegian national team players. Priority one for us was always to put the A national team first. We had 35-40 players that we followed closely, no matter what league they played in, “Perry” continues in the book, and later states:
– GET REVIEW: Knut Espen Svegaarden (right). Photo: Tor Richardsen / SCANPIX Photo: Tor Richardsen
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– The fact is that we are guaranteed to see more matches in the Norwegian Elite Series than VG’s journalists did. We can probably assume that Lars Lagerbäck knows more about this than journalists in Akersgata.
– Witnesses of hair ulcers and long-term thinking
Nor does TV 2’s profiled football expert Jesper Mathisen escape Per Joar Hansen’s anger.
– When I received questions from VG after Norway’s match in the European Championship qualifiers against Turkey in March, I said that the football experts often build too high and unrealistic expectations. If it is not fulfilled, it is forward with the butcher knife. Jesper Mathisen was quick to point out that it was typical for Perry to mean something like that, says the former assistant coach.
– I also registered that it was speculated whether I was one of the candidates to take over a Norwegian elite league club the same year, Jesper Mathisen was quickly out and thought the chance that I could get that assignment, was zero percent. I think this testifies to a little hair ulcer and long-suffering thinking, he continues in the book.
– At the same time, it is fun to register that when their self-image is challenged, they have an enormous need to fight back. Kjetil Rekdal did it against the aforementioned Mathisen, and then he got back from the same Mathisen that he was a coach who did nothing but gamble and care less about football. Such a statement against a coach is also far above the line, and something an editor should have hit hard on. Kjetil Rekdal is a very skilled professional who has so far led Ham-Kam to great progress. Jesper Mathisen can only go in and train Start, and try to achieve the same, Perry states about TV 2’s profiled football expert.
– GET TO REVIEW: Jesper Mathisen. Photo: Magnus Kaslegard / TV 2
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Eurosport expert Joacim Jonsson will also have his passport endorsed. “Perry” describes him as a former player who was too bad for GIF Sundsvall at Swedish level two, and who in addition “was only sports manager in Fredrikstad for 15 minutes”.
– One day, experts talk that social media can be devastating for young football players who receive incitement to miss an open goal. The next day they sit in the studio and “break” people. Suddenly they seem to have forgotten by doing so, then they contribute to the highest degree even to neatness, he writes under the section about Jonsson.
In the book, Per Joar Hansen highlights Tor Ole Skullerud, Petter Myhre and Brede Hangeland as experts he respects and believes has the football professional weight needed.
– Here Perry beats me down in the boots
VG’s renowned sports commentator Knut Espen Svegaarden does not care much about what Perry writes about him in the book.
– Perry is free to think what he wants. I see no reason for me to comment on this, writes «Svea» in an SMS to TV 2.
– GET TO REVIEW: Joacim Jonsson. Photo: Svein Ove Ekornesvåg
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Eurosport expert Joacim Jonsson smiles at what Norway’s former assistant coach writes about him.
– He probably means that I speak in big words, but here Perry hits me in the boots. I usually relate to facts, says the Swede to TV 2, and continues:
– This is exactly where I do not lose my night’s sleep. I wish him good luck with the coaching job in Östersund, then we will see if he lasts more than a quarter of an hour, says Jonsson, and refers to the fact that Perry wrote that the current football expert only lasted 15 minutes as sports manager in Fredrikstad.
– How do you think Perry had managed as a TV expert?
– He obviously has far too much competence to be that, so it would have been unfair for the rest of us, laughs Jonsson, before he becomes a little more serious:
– I tend to say that indifference is the worst, and I have obviously made an impression on him. He obviously follows what I say and do, and finds it interesting. In any case, I have no plans to buy the book, and I doubt if it will come under the Christmas tree for Christmas.
The book criticism from Norway’s former national team assistant only bounces off TV 2 expert Jesper Mathisen.
– I stand for what I mean around the assessments of both Perry’s coaching career and Norwegian football. I am employed by TV 2 to think something about what is happening, and it is only natural that there will be reactions to it – especially among those who face adversity. Something the Norwegian national team did under Perry and Lars Lagerbäck in the most decisive matches, Mathisen comments.
– INVITATION: – I think Perry should have had a week in Cologne, jokes Ståle Solbakken. Photo: Ali Zare
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Solbakken: – Perry should have had a week in Cologne
National team manager Ståle Solbakken was asked about the level of Norwegian football experts at Tuesday’s press conference.
The current national team manager goes so far as to suggest that he disagrees with Per Joar Hansen in his criticism of the Norwegian football experts.
– This should not sound like spanking, but I have been to England as both player and coach. I have been to Germany as a coach. I have been to Denmark as a player and coach, the same in Norway. I have always read a lot of sports journalism. I think you should be happy that you still have a level in Norway of sobriety and objectivity. Even though it is put to the test every day by the click journalism, says Solbakken.
Solbakken believes the former national team assistant would have had even more to write about if he had coached some clubs on the continent.
– I feel many follow closely and analyze. I lived in Cologne, which was the tabloid and media capital of Germany. I think Perry should have had a week there, so maybe he had written another chapter, states Ståle Solbakken.
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