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Hege Riise takes over the England women’s soccer team along with Canadian Rhian Wilkinson as an assistant, reports the English Football Association, FA.
– I am excited about the opportunity I have been given to work with England. This is a proud and ambitious team that I look forward to working with and I am sure I will make a positive impression when I meet the team in February, Riise says in a press release.
The FA’s director of women’s soccer, Baroness Sue Campbell, says they are happy to have a temporary coaching staff.
– They bring with them a wealth of international experience and will help guide our players before Sarina Wiegman takes over and takes us to the European Championship at home in 2022. When February is over, we will sit down and assess the situation around the UK team at the Olympics. with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the British Olympic Committee, says Campbell.
At the same time, NFF announces that Riise will take over the J19 national team after the job as England boss has been done.
– Of course it will be very fun and exciting to have the opportunity with England, and it will be a new challenge for me to coach national teams. I’m happy there was a good arrangement for this so I get a chance to get it done now first and then come home to the J19 national team this fall, says Hege Riise in the NFF press release.
It’s a temporary fix, as Phil Neville has left the team, while substitute Sarina Wiegman will take over only after the Olympics.
LSK Women’s Board Chairman Anders Melheim confirmed early Tuesday that Riise is in dialogue with the English Football Association.
– I know the wish and the request. I would say that we have had a good dialogue throughout the process. I wanted her as a development manager, but at the same time I gave her room to decide, Melheim told NRK when it became known that England was interested.
He claims he will take England to training camp
This means that it is Riise who maintains a dialogue with the English Football Association in the future, and LSK Women is not really very involved in the ongoing process.
Melheim says that now they will probably have to find a new development manager.
The chairman of the board believes that this is a great step for Norwegian women’s football.
FACT: Phil Neville will take over at Inter Miami, which opens the spot as interim coach of the England women’s national team.
Photo: VALERY HACHE / AFP
– I think it makes Norwegian women’s football visible, with the values and experience it brings. This may open the window even more for Norwegian football, he says and continues:
– I hope this is more like gasoline on fire to take the step of professionalizing women’s football. Because today we don’t have the same opportunities, and there are many who have to work alongside football.
This means that if Riise gets the job, there is a good chance that she will lead Great Britain in the Olympics, although the BBC reports that the deal will initially apply to a training session in February.
– Fantastic opportunity
Morten Skjønsberg, a football expert at NRK, notes that Riise has a very strong resume.
– This is a fantastic opportunity for Riise in a prestigious job. Women’s football in England has received increasing attention and is being invested in the big clubs there, says Skjønsberg.
In the last World Cup, Neville led England to the semifinals, where they smoked in the meeting with the United States. Along the way, they beat Norway in the quarterfinals.
STRONG CV: NRK soccer expert Morten Skjønsberg says Hege Riise had a fantastic opportunity.
Photo: NRK
Riise resigned as LSK Women’s coach in 2020. Since the end of the season, she has held the role of development manager at the same club.
Won four league golds with LSK Women in five years.
Riise has prior experience as an under-23 coach for Norway and as an assistant coach to Pia Sundhage when she was the coach of the United States. In 2011, he took silver at the World Cup with the Americans.
As a player, she became a world champion (1995) and an Olympic champion (2000) with Norway.
He has the most international matches for Norway, regardless of gender, with his 188 caps.
NRK has tried to contact Riise, so far without success.
Neville, for his part, has recently prepared for Inter Miami, the club started by David Beckham.
