news learned earlier today that Alfred Johansson (33) will be RBK’s new coach. On Thursday afternoon, the ball club confirmed the signing. – It feels very good that it is finally in place. I feel that it has been a very good process where we have been able to talk through matters and things thoroughly. In the end, the feeling was reinforced by the fact that it is a very good “match”. That’s what the new head coach says at the press conference at Lerkendal on Thursday evening. The Swede has previously coached the junior team at FC Copenhagen. Who will join as assistant coach is still uncertain. Alfred Johansson has signed a three-year contract with RBK. Photo: Bjarte Johannesen / news There has long been speculation as to who will be the club’s new head coach. – It is fantastic that there is so much interest around the club. I come from an environment where there are great ambitions and where there are great expectations and a lot of interest. It’s the type of environment I enjoy being in, so I’m looking forward to it, he says. VG mentioned the news first. Great talent Chairman of the board Cecilie Gotaas Johnsen is very pleased to have concluded the agreement with Johansson. – He is a candidate we are very much looking forward to working with, and he has a lot that agrees with what the club wants to achieve going forward now. Chairman of the board Cecilie Gotaas Johnsen is happy about the signing of the Swedish coach. Photo: Bjarte Johannesen / news – We have been very focused on the club having more self-management in terms of expression and identity, and it fits very well with the type of football he plays, says the chairman. Sources news has spoken to describe the young coach as a huge talent. – If they get RBK Johansson, they have secured one of Scandinavia’s most exciting coaching talents, says a source to news. This is Alfred Johansson Age: 33 Nationality: Sweden Coaching experience: Enköping (youth department), Djurgården (youth department), FC Copenhagen U14, AIK U17, FC Copenhagen U17 and FC Copenhagen U19. Current: Rosenborg’s new head coach – signed a contract that extends to the 2026 season. Source: RBK.no, Wikipedia Managing director of RBK, Tore Bjørseth Berdal, has not responded to news’s inquiry. – Extremely exciting – It is simply an extremely exciting appointment Rosenborg has made now. 33 years old and about to take over Norway’s biggest club, with no experience other than junior football. It is brave, but at the same time very offensive. That’s what news’s football expert Kristoffer Løkberg says. He believes it is a good opportunity for the club to bring in Johansson now. – This could be the opportunity you have to get the next great coach. So it might be a good idea to take him now, before he becomes too good for Norwegian clubs to sign him. Løkberg says he is excited about next season. The core also believes Johansson is the right person for the coaching job, and is well satisfied with the choice. That’s what the leader of the supporters’ club Kjernen, Bjørn Skaar, says. Bold, but not necessarily stupid Alfred Johansson is Rosenborg’s dream of having discovered the new Julian Nagelsmann, the German who took over Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga as an unheralded 28-year-old and is today the German national team coach until the European Championships on home soil in the summer. At the age of 36. If one forgets the swarming, the appointment is necessarily an experiment for a club that no longer has anything to lose just by experimenting. That says a lot about Rosenborg’s downfall. For Trønder’s sake, hopefully also a lot about the relatively young Swede’s qualities. Rosenborg had a similar opportunity when they bought Eirik Horneland expensively and surprisingly from Haugesund in 2019. But Horneland’s real opportunities to show his character were drowned in a mixture of arrogance of power and misunderstood nostalgia. instead he showed his qualities in Brann. Alfred Johansson is an appointment based on a mixture of naive hope, desperation and ailing finances. But it is also a signal of a prioritization of one’s own efforts and recruitment from Trønder. The way football is in 2023. When you pay a Danish agency company to recommend your own undeserving Swede to what was once the biggest club in the Nordics A good “match” – There are many talented people who have sat down and decided how Rosenborg should be perceived going forward, and how Rosenborg should play football and express itself on the pitch. When Johansson was presented with those thoughts, he says that he saw a good “match”. – I am here and I have been to Copenhagen. Where there has been a football where you have to move forward on the field, there must be a strong collective. – I have used 4-3-3 with various variations in most of the seasons I have been a coach, so in that way it is a good match. Johansson says today’s Rosenborg is a squad with great potential. Gotaas Johnsen also agrees that it is a good “match”. – We must have more focus on the development-oriented and create a performance environment. Actually a bit back to what Nils Arne Eggen talked a lot about and less on the results. Now the new head coach is clear on how he will attack the job from 1 January. – There is no “one man show” here. There are many talented people here already and we will see to it that the potential that exists in the house comes to fruition. Convinced the board Johansson is said to have convinced the board in interviews, and in the end there was a broad consensus that they could not let the coaching talent slip by as the new head coach. In the interviews with the club, he must have been very ambitious and had clear visions for what he wants to achieve with RBK. For the board, it simply became clear that Johansson can lift RBK back to the top of Norwegian football. Several people wanted the job. Kjetil Rekdal was fired this summer, and it was Svein Maalen who took over the temporary responsibility. He has always wanted the job, but now the choice has fallen on the Swede. Svein Maalen wanted the job, but did not get it. Photo: Kjartan Ovesen / news Working with Aznar New assistant coach in RBK has not been decided. But news knows that the club is working to secure Spanish Jordi Gonzalez Aznar, who is assistant to Per-Mathias Høgmo in Häcken. Høgmo will take over coaching responsibility at the Japanese club Urawa Red Diamonds in 2024.
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