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The club claims that Solbakken will leave the club after disappointing results in the national league last season.
– Ståle is without comparison the most successful manager in club history with an impressive list of results. Everyone who is part of FCK owes Ståle a big thank you for the enormous effort he has put in for the club and the results he has created, says President Bo Rygaard in a press release and continues:
– Furthermore, we must point out that the results in 2020 have not been satisfactory, and we are now assuming the consequences of that.
FCK ranks ninth in the league after four games this season with just one win and two losses.
Solbakken has been coach at Danish FCK for two terms, first from 2005 to 2011, and again from 2013 until the collaboration now ends with immediate effect. In a club press release, the board reveals that Solbakken’s role has been debated for a long time.
– It has been a difficult decision both professionally and emotionally, but we have thought about it carefully over a long period, and we believe that this is the best for FCK in the situation we find ourselves in, says Rygaard.
Grue’s man has led the Danish capital club to eight league golds and four gold cup golds. On four occasions, Solbakken has led Copenhagen to the group stage of the Champions League with the 2011 quarter-finals against Chelsea the best result.
Dagbladet has so far failed to get a comment from Solbakken.
Self-deception
– Pressure on Lagerbäck
In 2009, Solbakken signed an agreement with the NFF to take over as manager of the Norwegian national team after the 2012 European Championship, but it never happened. Instead, Solbakken coached Cologne in Germany and Wolverhampton in the Premier League with mixed success, before returning to Copenhagen in 2013.
After the defeat to Serbia in the European Championship play-off match on Thursday, Lars Lagerbäck opened up to resign as coach of the Norwegian national team, at the same time that several Norwegian experts thought it was time for the Swede to step down.
Now the opportunity may open to re-sign an agreement with Solbakken.
– The pressure will not be less on Lars Lagerbäck now. If Ståle wants to, I hope he will be the coach of the Norwegian national team. You need enough time to figure out what you want, but this is what we’ve been waiting for for many years, TV 2 soccer expert Jesper Mathisen tells Dagbladet.
– NFF should call
Solbakken was also wanted as coach of the Norwegian national team in 2017, but after lengthy negotiations and time to think, he decided to say no thanks for completing the contract with FCK.
– The moment is very good considering everything that has happened with the start against Serbia in this way and a very weak home game against Austria. Norway has an exciting new generation on the way and there is a long way to go until WC 2022 and even longer until EC 2024. I see it very natural for Solbakken to take over now, when he is free.
– What do we get with Solbakken?
– We have a coach who in club football has achieved great things in Denmark. Although it is different to be the director of the national team, I think he is clear enough and has respect and charisma to make both the Norwegian people and the players believe in the project and make the Norwegian team perform so well that we get into a championship . I think Solbakken is hungry and motivated after the end at FCK. I think he has been an excellent national coach because he is also very clear about it.
– You think he wants?
– Yes, I believe. Now the moment is right. If we had beaten Serbia and the European Championship, of course, it would have been different, but with what happened against Serbia, all of a sudden the moment was right. Now NFF must check the possibility of Ståle coaching Norway.
Long story
Ståle Solbakken has been closely associated with FC Copenhagen since he was there as a player in the 2000-2001 season. On March 13, 2001, he suffered cardiac arrest during training at the club, which ended with his resignation as a player.
“I had no recollection of what had happened when, that same day, I regained consciousness in the intensive care unit at Rikshospitalet. Here they told me that I had fallen into cardiac arrest during training and had not breathed for about seven minutes “, Solbakken writes in the book” Løvehjerte “.
The Norwegian returned to Copenhagen as coach in 2006 and became an immediate hit with league gold and Champions League games as early as season one.
After another seven years since 2013 as coach of Denmark’s largest club, the collaboration is now ending.
FCK affirms that the former player and current member of the capital’s club’s board of directors, William Kvist, and the academy coach Hjalte Bo Nørregaard will assume the responsibility temporarily.
