Turnaround from Hallén: Sets not for re-election – TV 2

It confirms NFF in a press release.

Hallén even told about the decision at the Assembly of Sogn og Fjordane SoccerCircle Saturday.

After nearly six years as football president, with all the traveling position entails, he wants now to focus on other priorities, said the press release.

– My commitment and heart Norwegian football is and remains large. Although I was also very insecure this summer, I chose nonetheless to announce the nomination committee in August that I was available if they wanted it. But in late October asked eldest boy Brage on a chat. His message was not to be misunderstood. I changed my mind Well finally there and then, says Hallén.

– Does the criticism against you had an impact on this decision?

– No, on the contrary, I have the strong support of those I have informed earlier and today. It’s nice. Now get the nomination committee sit down and find a good candidate. I have some names in my head, and if the election committee will contact me, and they get clear advice, says Hallén to TV 2.

– Good timing

2 TV commentator øyvind alsaker think it is a good time to give Norwegian football a new leader.

– I am primarily surprised, because it is unusual that you first make themselves available and then make an about-face. Secondly, I would say that timing is probably good. He has served for six years and has at the time done something good and something less good.

Alsaker highlights conflicts around Drillo and Dilling and the support of Blatter, as unfortunate cases for soccer president.

– He was not the architect of the then new TV deal, but he was in a sense trapped by it anyway. The conflicts around Drillo and Dilling were bad things to him like soccer president. In addition, support for Blatter perhaps easy to understand in the sense that FIFA is an organ that one Norwegian fotballeder must adhere to. Yet it was a lost opportunity to criticize a vicious culture. He had a great opportunity to come forward as a fotballeder of a certain format, but he took it not.

2 TV commentator hopes for a strong and unifying leader figure.

– I think that the new president must have a certain format. There should be a person who enjoys great respect and have some authority, both within the football family and towards society. So it remains to see if they succeed in finding this person, says Alsaker.

Hard criticism

Soccer president has gotten much criticism lately, including in connection with NFF’s attitudes towards FIFA and corruption scandal.

In addition, there have been fights Football Association’s handling of the previous media agreement and dismissal of sports coaches who coach.

– It can be tough to stand in the middle of storms, and sometimes the criticism felt both unfair and oversimplified. At the same time – with the gold standard in hand – then there’s obviously things we could and should have done differently. As football president must nevertheless be prepared to face tough criticism. It’s part of the job. And would the job become easier with a European Cup? Obvious. But a playoff would not leave more time with family. That is why I now say no to reelection, says Hallén.

As recently as autumn he was in rough weather because of too close ties to the election committee, then he was set to a second term as President Football. When he was still ready to continue.

– Has performed his duties with great integrity.

Six months after the football Parliament in 2012, where Brynildsen and Nomination Committee had set Yngve Hallén to a second term, she claimed Brønnøysundregistrene appointed to sit on the board of three subsidiaries; Ullevaal Business Class AS, Ullevaal Stadium Sport AS and Activity Company Ullevaal Stadion. Fourthly, Ullevaal Stadium AS, was established in January 2015.

BI professor and author of several books on investigation of white-collar crime, Petter Gottschalk was highly critical of this.

– She is not bribed to mean money, but then she got a prestigious position for a company that hierarchically is under Hallén, then there is a kind of bribe because it gives her prestige . So one can indeed suspicious Hallén for having bribed her by giving her positions. And re-performance is when he gets reelected. So far one can take the argument, says Gottschalk.

Looking for new candidate

TV 2 has been in Contact Marianne Brynildsen Saturday morning.

– Are you surprised Halléns turnaround?

– We take it to intelligence and continue the job we have begun. We publish our setting 15th January 2016.

– Do you think that the relationship between you and Hallén may have helped that he landed on this decision?

– My role is considered by the Nomination Committee and the legal committee. Beyond that I have no comment, said Brynildsen.