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Soccer is fantastic.
When Helsingborgs IF left the Allsvenskan in 2016, it was with the (basically) last kick in the last match of the playoffs.
2020 came out before the series ended.
Like bulls in Pamplona, people put their legs on their backs or they threw them out the door.
President Krister Azelius, Head Coach Olof Mellberg, Scouting Manager Adil Kizil. Fitness coach, assistant coach and a long list of players. Crowds of people disappeared for various reasons.
And with a wallet ringing as empty as the Allsvenskan sands did in 2020, the future was stark black on the red and blue streets.
Left on the ship were club director Joel Sandborg and team captain / sports manager / sponsor / club icon Andreas Granqvist as two Captain Ahabs in search of an Allsvenskan withdrawal as unlikely as Moby Dick.
Of course, both Sandborg and Granqvist said the right words on how to find the soul of HIF, build slowly, and find the right people.
But we have seen several times what has come out of those words over the years. How a financial corpse for the team settled in Roar Hansen’s lap in 2013 and 2014. How Henrik Larsson was picked up with a leadership style of the past. Peo Ljung, who in terms of players represented a kinship that HIF felt good about, but who despite the step forward in the Allsvenskan could never make the club feel good. The amazing re-employment of Henrik Larsson. And then Olof Mellberg as a step into a world completely alien to Helsingborgs IF and into the Superettan again.
What could fill the empty words with content?
Jörgen Lennartsson is a good start.
Marjan Svab in HD was the first to break the news and when Lennartsson was contacted by Kvp shortly after, it was a bubbly Smålander who declared from his home in Gothenburg “no comment”.
The fact that Lennartsson was exuberant cannot be proven that he got a new coaching job (the last one was at Norwegian Lilleström last year) because Lennartsson is constantly exuberant. And when it comes to soccer, it’s like a constant blast.
I have had this profession for 17 years, played soccer for almost 40 years, and moved in and around elite soccer for 25 years.
I have never met anyone who loves football like Jörgen Lennartsson does.
Helsingborgs IF needs you.
Perhaps most of all, this is exactly what Helsingborgs IF needs most.
Someone who goes to work every morning with a strangely great touch of joy and with the same faith.
That Lennartsson is also a good documented talent developer (this is how he worked at HIF in the late 1990s and helped train players who led the club to the 2000 Champions League), with international experience through the U21 national teams. and Stabaek / Lilleström, and gold coach. with Elfsborg 2012, of course, it is also a great advantage.
And also Lennartsson HIF inside and out.
It was there that he received his education before taking the step in 2000 as Coach A at an elite level with BK Häcken.
Around him at HIF now he can (if all goes well) have Mattias Lindström, who was one of the talents Lennartsson locked up in the A-team in the late 90s, and Álvaro Santos and Sven Andersson, who were stars of A-team. at that moment.
Good people.
HIF large: they are.
Nice football brains.
Andreas Granqvist (who played for the Under-21 team when Lennartsson played Tommy Söderberg) should have high praise for the fact that now, just three weeks after relegation, there is faith in Helsingborgs IF again.
There is no guarantee that this will be successful.
But Jörgen Lennartsson, Mattias Lindström, Alvaro Santos and Sven Andersson.
This is the correct path for Helsingborgs IF.
Now the trip back to the Allsvenskan is primarily about one thing.
To resist the temptation to cut corners.
Jörgen Lennartsson is good at it.
He loves football too much not to take all the necessary millimeters.
