STOCKHOLM (AP) – Alfred Gislason is once more struggling with nervousness and inside pressure forward of Germany’s handball workforce’s ultimate World Cup sport towards Norway. “Waiting for the beginning of the sport is probably the most troublesome interval for a coach. It is ache and struggling,” stated the national coach through the match.
Otherwise, the 63-12 months-previous Icelander confirmed a beforehand unknown picture within the finals in Poland and Sweden. With few exceptions, Gislason appeared calm and composed, which was effectively obtained by his younger and inexperienced workforce.
“You can inform he enjoys it when the workforce realizes what he has in thoughts. Now it is an excellent unit. The coach and the workforce have grown collectively,” stated captain Johannes Golla.
Kudos to Iceland
Veteran goalkeeper Andreas Wolff additionally reported many optimistic issues about working with Gislason. The two weren’t the perfect of buddies earlier than at THW Kiel. “He provides us composure, has nice expertise and competence. He can all the time give us one thing to assist us and create environment,” Wolff stated of the Icelander.
For him, the primary common match after taking workplace in February 2020 appeared like liberation. In the top, Gislason may solely give attention to handball. Due to the Corona epidemic, it was utterly completely different for the 2021 World Cup and the 2022 European Championship. He is in demand as an issue supervisor and disaster supervisor.
In this World Cup, he took a step ahead with the workforce. “Overall, the boys performed very effectively. So much has grown collectively,” he praised forward of the fifth-place sport in Stockholm this Sunday (13:00 / ZDF).
Players return the praise. “I feel we’ve got a really robust bond of belief, which supplies us freedom, which performs an enormous position in our sport,” stated Christoph Steinert. Nevertheless, the hat of the national coach is all the time on. “Alfred himself has a really authoritarian aura that creates construction and order,” the 33-12 months-previous famous.
DHB desires to increase the contract
Assistant coach Eric Woodtke additionally likes the great relationship between the boss and the gamers. “Alfred has a sure looseness, he exudes independence and confidence, and the workforce will choose up on that,” Woodtke stated. It’s no shock that the German Handball Federation desires to increase Gislason’s contract as quickly as potential. The present working doc is legitimate till 2024 and consists of not solely the European Championships, but in addition the Olympic Games in Paris. “We actually need to stay as much as that,” Gislason stated.
He himself, so far as potential contract negotiations with the affiliation (“I’m not working away”), can think about persevering with on the trail we have taken. Because the event is just not over but. “I’m very completely satisfied with this younger workforce,” Gislason famous.
But there are nonetheless development services that must be repaired. “We know that we do not have width within the squad,” stated the national coach. Especially in a backcourt that lacks worldwide stature, with the exception of playmaker Yuri Knorr. “We do not pose a lot of a menace there,” Gislason complained.
That’s why he’ll be hoping for a lift or two earlier than subsequent 12 months’s European Championships on house soil. “But I’m not predicting who may come,” Gislason stated. His process is to counterpoint the workforce in a significant means, with out endangering the established workforce spirit.
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