As news understands it, the Icelandic association must have decided that Åge Hareide is the right man to lead the team through the ongoing qualification in the hunt for an EC ticket. news has not been able to get a comment from Hareide on Thursday evening. Hareide has previously managed both the Norwegian and Danish national teams, and worked as an news expert during the football World Cup this winter. First match in June Iceland have opened the European Championship qualification with a loss to Bosnia and a 7-0 victory over Liechtenstein. That gives them 4th place in their group. After the last match, Arnar Vidarsson was fired. In addition to Bosnia and Liechtenstein, Portugal, Slovakia and Luxembourg are in Iceland’s group. Hareide gets a tough start to his Iceland career with home games against Slovakia and Portugal in June. – This is of course a difficult decision, but we believe it is right and necessary. Arnar has done many good things, and he deserves praise for the work he has done under often difficult conditions. We are now starting work to find a replacement, Iceland’s football president Vanda Sigurgeirsdottir said in a statement. Now this replacement must be in place. Iceland, who wowed the world when they reached the 2016 European Championship and the 2018 World Cup, have had a few lean years since their success. They did not succeed in qualifying either for the previous European Championship or the World Cup, and are down to 64th place in the Fifa ranking. Five years ago they were ranked in their best ever position when they were all the way up to 18th place. SUCCESS: Hareide became a popular man in Denmark after a number of good results. Photo: DAVID KLEIN / Reuters New comeback Hareide has a long and meritorious coaching career behind him and is now making another comeback as a football coach. When he left the Rosenborg job in 2021, he announced that he was done, but in 2022 he made a comeback when another club he had previously managed, Swedish Malmö, called. Now he is back in the menagerie again – this time as Icelandic national team coach. Iceland will be his third job as national team coach. Sunnmøringen has plenty of experience as a national team coach from before: From 2003 to 2008 he was Norwegian national team manager, while from 2015 to 2020 he was national team coach for Denmark. He led them, among other things, during the World Cup in Russia in 2018. The 69-year-old has previously led clubs such as Molde, Viking, Helsingborg and Brøndby, in addition to the aforementioned Rosenborg and Malmö. This is also not the first time Iceland has tried to employ Hareide as national team manager: In a VG interview in 2021, where he talked about the decision to quit, he talked about an offer to lead the Icelandic national team. Then it was not relevant. It is now.
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