I thought about Swedens former national manager earlier today, Lars Lagerbäck, and how much he reminds me om Phil Brown. How they both prefer old and injury prone players (U were more or less guaranteed a starting position in Swedens national team if you were 30+) I did some random research, and yepp, sure as I **** I came over this article (written in Sweden) http://fotboll.expressen.se/internationellt/1.1354123/hull-vi-har-lart-av-sverige Google translation with some minor changes [NSFW]Phil Brown - who has been in Hull since 2006 - thanks Sweden for his training philosophy. His training education in 2002 included a field trip somewhere in the world. - Everybody told me: you have to go to Juventus, Barcelona or Real Madrid - it is they who know how to win titles. - But I thought that they just buy a team that wins. What can I learn from that? So when the football assoocisation was wondering where he wanted to go, he replied - Sweden. - I said, Sweden has the most efficient team in the world, they have never lost a qualifier game. I must be able to learn something from. Said and done, a visit with the current-coach duo Tommy Soderberg and Lars Lagerback was booked in, just in time for Sweden to face Portugal at Ullevi. - They sat with me for four hours on the match day. I asked, do not you prepare? No, they said, this is important. And so they continued talking.[/NSFW] Any conclusion? Not really. Just wanted to let you know And the article may amuse you with the stupid translation if you translate the whole thing.
