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NFF confirms on their websites that Alexander Sørloth and Lars Lagerbäck spoke together on Sunday about the incident that occurred during the previous national team meeting.
The parties agree to leave the case behind.
Alexander has understood that the form of communication was wrong, which he regrets and we agree with the guidelines that apply to the national team.
Hangeland: – A terrible defeat for the national team
Following the Serbian match, as is well known, a heated discussion ensued. In an acting culture, it should be high under the roof. This time the temperature was too high and the discussions got too far from both sides.
Alexander and the coaching staff emphasize that he has not said that the coaches are incompetent, but Alexander regrets having argued in a way that makes them perceive him that way.
Both Alexander Sørloth, the coaching staff and the team captain have spoken together and are ready to put the matter behind us and focus on the next international matches.
The position is signed by Alexander Sørloth, Stefan Johansen, Per Joar Hansen and Lars Lagerbäck.
This is how the fight came about
It was earlier this week that VG revealed that Lagerbäck had come to Sørloth in bitter pain when the parties fell out after Serbia’s defeat.
NFF-Bjerketvedt: – Lagerbäck’s task to solve the case
On the Tuesday after the game, the day before the game against Northern Ireland, the management of the national team had planned group meetings with the different parts of the team. It came two days after the players discussed the Serbian recession in groups of five and five.
According to VG, the strikers came out first. Alexander Sørloth, Erling Braut Haaland and Joshua King sat in a group room with national team manager Lars Lagerbäck and Per Joar Hansen. According to VG, the short meeting lasted more than half an hour. The heated discussion caused the meetings with the defenders and midfielders to be canceled. Instead, Lagerbäck brought the entire group of players together for a spontaneous gathering.
There, Lagerbäck and Sørloth ended up in another amp discussion. According to VG, the other players sat dumbfounded in the room and continued the fight.
Sørloth surrendered because he thought Norway was not sufficiently prepared for the formation of Serbia. Trøndelag also called for a more offensive attitude. In the discussion between Lagerbäck and Sørloth, which lasted more than ten minutes, Lagerbäck asked if Sørloth had seen the game on replay. No, Sørloth replied.
Lagerbäck and Perry left the room for the players to discuss in peace. When the duo returned, Captain Stefan Johansen and Joshua King spoke on behalf of the group of players.
Sun over noise NFF: – Disappointing that things turn out
After this, Lagerbäck and Sørloth ended up in oral surgery again. Finally, it was dropped from Lagerbäck:
– How dare you, who missed an open goal against Cyprus two years ago, to say anything?
– I was shocked. I have never experienced anything like this, says one of VG’s witnesses.
Following Lagerbäck’s bitter sting of Sørloth, the forward declared that it was enough. Perry repeated that “one more word, it’s direct.”
Different points of view on the situation.
The Norwegian Football Association issued a press release the day after the revelation, where Lagerbäck wrote that he and Hansen had been described as incompetent coaches in both managerial and soccer terms.
Sørloth reacted to this, and later that day released a press release to NTB through his agent Morten Wivestad.
There, the Trøndelag man made it clear that he had never said that anyone on the technical team was incompetent. This is also what the coaching staff wrote in Sunday’s press release that it did not happen.
