After several good years in Sampdoria and Serie A, Morten Thorsby was sold to the German Union Berlin last summer. The German team has had a brilliant season and is all the way up to third place in the Bundesliga, but for Thorsby it has been a challenging season – much due to the transfer from Sampdoria. Thorsby says that the Italian club was very clear that they had to sell everyone who could be sold. The safe harbor in the north of Italy suddenly became more shaky. – I was incredibly happy in Italy. I had a very good time in Sampdoria, but the whole situation and how everything turned out was unbearable, says Thorsby to news. The 26-year-old has previously told TV 2 about the difficult time. HAPPY IN ITALY: Morten Thorsby became a crowd favorite when he played for Sampdoria. Photo: Tano Pecoraro / AP Was burnt out He elaborates: – There was a lot of stress. You don’t know where you’re going to play, what’s going on, there’s a lot of stress in that. At the same time as it had been a long and difficult season. And I did a bit too much last summer, and that led to me being a bit “burned out” in the autumn there. That meant I needed some time to recover, says Thorsby. – Were you burnt out? – I got a little burnt out during the autumn, yes. It’s not something you talk about that much in football, but it happens. It took me a while to realize that it was happening to me. It was instructive for me to see it, and I feel like everyone else that you have grown from it and hope you come out of it in a better way, says Thorsby. He points out that it is difficult in itself to come to a new club and a new country. When you also arrive without being the best version of yourself, it causes even more stress, the 26-year-old points out. TRÅ START: Although the team did very well, Thorsby had a difficult autumn in Union Berlin. Photo: FABRIZIO BENSCH / Reuters The total was simply too much. Thorby explains that he noticed it in several ways. – You feel tired, a tiredness that you can’t quite explain. You feel like you don’t have the strength you usually have, in training I felt like I couldn’t run after one lap, usually I can run for 90 minutes without a problem. – After one round I was stiff and couldn’t run any more. There were quite strong physical symptoms that I felt, and which I have realized afterwards are very common in such contexts. It’s about your nervous system being a bit overheated and not doing quite as it should. It was nothing funny, but very educational, says Thorsby. Struggled with sleep: – Takes an extremely large amount of energy Thorsby got off early for Union Berlin, but there were most of his appearances throughout the autumn. Only now, in March, did he play his first full 90 minutes in the Bundesliga against Wolfsburg. Thorsby also played the entire game away to Ajax in the Europa League in February. Out of 26 games in total, Thorsby has been a substitute in 16 of them. At the same time, he has been replaced in eight of the ten games he has started. Fatigue and lack of energy was one of the consequences of the burnout. Sleep problems another. – Fortunately, not as bad as others, but it’s a tough everyday life. All the stress you build up spills over into many other parts of your life. Sleep, rest, you feel like you can’t calm down, which is extremely important as a footballer, that you manage to calm down after training to build up enough energy again, says Thorsby. – When the body is vibrating and unable to calm down, it takes an extremely large amount of energy. These are the kinds of things you pay extra attention to as a footballer or athlete when you have to perform: When the body is not quite as it should be, you notice it. IMPORTANT PLAYER: Thorsby has been a central piece for Norway under Ståle Solbakken. Here, Solbakken gives instructions to Thorsby during a match against Serbia last year. Photo: Terje Bendiksby / NTB Globally, burnout is a growing problem, especially in industrialized countries, according to Lommelegen. In Norway, it is estimated that close to 15 percent of employees suffer from burnout. – How are you right now? – I am doing great. You get out of it, and it has been good to have many very good medical people. Everyone says that there is one thing that applies: Getting rest, reducing stress. And then it’s over. Now I’m back and very happy about it, says Thorsby.
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