“NFF, Martin Sjögren and Anders Jacobson have agreed on an agreement which means that they will resign from their positions as head coach and assistant coach,” the press release states. – It was quite natural after this championship. The result was not as we had hoped and had ambitions for. So there is nothing unexpected. Natural fate, says Sjögren to news. The Swede has been the head coach of the Norwegian women’s national team since 2016, but after the European Championship in England, it is the end for the 45-year-old. He has had to endure a lot of criticism after the painful 0-8 defeat for England, before it was a 0-1 loss for Austria when only victory was good enough. Sjögren and Jacobson took over the national team in January 2017 and last year extended their agreements until the World Cup in 2023. – That is the football world now, and that is quickly the fate of football coaches, the Swede continues. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB – Want to thank Martin During his first championship in the European Championships in the Netherlands in 2017, Norway dropped out of the group stage after three losses and zero goals. Two years later, he took Norway to the quarterfinals of the World Cup in France 2019. – I want to thank Martin and Anders for good cooperation over many years. We’ve been through a lot together. Changes and enormous development of women’s football in general. Ups and downs, says football president Lise Klaveness in the press release. Sjögren has all the way laid the fate of his future as national team manager at the Norwegian Football Association, and now it is clear that 45-year-old Sjögren is done. ANNOUNCED: NFF will have the initiative to end the collaboration with Sjögren and Jacobson. Photo: Fredrik Varfjell / NTB – When we have nevertheless now taken the initiative to end the collaboration with Martin and Anders, it is a result of a broader and more long-term assessment that we already discussed with them in the extensions of the agreements last year. Namely that it will be too difficult for Martin and Anders to lead the team to progress through another recovery phase if it should become a reality after this summer’s European Championships. Now we are here, Klaveness continues. – Inevitably Sjögren says that he has had a good dialogue with President Klaveness. – I have had good conversations with NFF and Lise, and found that this was the best solution. Hope it goes well for Norway in the future. There is a lot of competence and good players there, so it will go well with Norway – I’m sure. Sjögren’s resignation does not come as a shock to the news expert. – It was inevitable. It was completely impossible to continue with the weak results, says news expert Carl-Erik Torp. The Norwegian Football Association now states that they are in the process of hiring a new coaching team. Already at the beginning of September, Norway will face Belgium and Albania in decisive World Cup qualifiers.
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