NFF Freder Høgmo: – I am very motivated for the World Cup qualification – TV 2

BUDAPEST / OSLO / BERGEN (TV2 Sport): It was an offensive coaching staff who met the press the day after the disappointment, and the subsequent massive criticism, in Budapest.

– I am glad that I have confidence, he said to TV 2.

– I’m very motivated for World Cup qualification.

Overall support
Høgmo shocked everything and everyone by making three changes to the team and still without a pure striker.

That did not at all, but he does not lie flat for the reason .

– We took out the team we had belief, and so we had as always a plan B and C. However, we are very disappointed now, it is no reason to say anything else.

Høgmo says he gathered his people to a meeting this morning.

– I gathered support network this morning. We t ok a status of “here we are now,” and where we should go further. It is always so when at the end of a season total assessment undertaken. Some injuries and illness in the squad. I took out the team we had belief. We have spent much time in recent days, as we always do, to consider which team we would take out, say Høgmo.

Semb with own assessment
Football President Yngve Hallén confirms that NFF has no plans to replace the chief.

– Players and the team had a collection yesterday. We really felt the disappointment that was together. The evaluation is in progress. We had a meeting this morning that started the process. There we had done no matter if we had qualified us or not.

– Who reports to whom? And who evaluates Per coaching staff?

– It is the national executive committee that evaluates Høgmo, but there are also others who are going to give their input to the Executive Committee, and give their own reports in this evaluation process. There are also Nils Johan Semb that pulls some strings.

– Is Per coaching staff’s future a topic?

– No

– Why not?

– On Because of the position he has been with us. The tasks he had to solve. Although there is little wrong to talk about it today, we must still show that in a group with two tough nations, Croatia and Italy, we followed them all the way to the door. 17 minutes before the group stage was finished we lay the first place in the group. But we were not skilled enough. We had to get out of the playoff. And where we showed that we have weaknesses in situations like this, and we must evaluate. We must also see that we took 19 points and was solid in some games, so we are not as smooth as we’d been to reach a championship.

– Not close any explanation
per ciljan skjelbred claims it is still unclear exactly what went wrong in Budapest.

– We are not close to any explanation. We have talked and discussed as we always do after the game, but I think we put most of ourselves and just wondering what it was here for something. We were most disappointed on behalf of all those responsible. It’s boring that it should end like that here, he says, adding:

– I do not think many of us slept very many hours .

The captain defended his coach after the game and do the same now.

– It is easy to be wise after the event. It was we who played we played, and this time we were not good enough. It is only regrettable. We’d better performing over two games. When we do not, we are very disappointed with ourselves. It’s incredibly disappointing to squandered such a possibility, but “that’s life.”