Morten Hjulmand is the player who really got under Jose Mourinho’s skin as Sporting captain. The Dane is also the captain who lifted the Belgian club after a 3-0 loss to Bodø/Glimt in the Champions League to a 5-0 victory in the second leg. Now Hjulmand wears the Atletico Madrid shirt. Before Thursday’s Nations League match against Norway, he praises Ståle Solbakken.
Years ago, Morten Hjulmand was not a player with great prospects at FC Copenhagen. Denmark’s midfield star never kicked open the door for Copenhagen’s first team, which Ståle Solbakken was responsible for at the time, but today he is a player that the Norwegian national team coach would like to have in his team, the national team manager said at the press conference before Thursday’s Nations League clash between Norway and Denmark.
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This made Hjulmand smile and reminisce a little about his time in Copenhagen.
-I am really proud to receive that praise from an internationally very talented coach like Ståle. Even though I was in a place at the time where I did not have the qualities to be able to play for FC Copenhagen, I was allowed to be there and see his ideas and principles as a coach, Hjulmand begins at the press conference.
-At that time, I learned a lot when it comes to seeing and understanding how he wanted to play football. I didn’t always agree with Ståle’s ideas, but I could see how a coach in Danish football could manage to create great results in the Champions League, among other things. He has done that, and it must also be recognized in Danish football that we have had a coach like Ståle, who has meant so much for so long to Denmark, and who has made FC Copenhagen a completely different place and has taken it to another level in the performances he delivered as a coach at the time, boasts Hjulmand, today Denmark’s biggest star on the national team.
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