Just before Christmas, Per-Mathias Høgmo advised his old club Molde to travel down to Kristiansund and try to tempt Ole Gunnar Solskjær to start working again. It seems that the club has listened to one part of Høgmo’s advice and go after someone they know well.
Molde has, according to their own statements, a “cruel” season with their second fifth place in a row in the Eliteserien.
After the cup final loss against Fredrikstad, Molde chose to fire head coach Erling Moe. A firing that Arendal coach Vegard Hansen referred to as “random and strange” to Dagbladet when it happened just over a month ago.
Now Molde is looking for a replacement. It could thus be former national team manager Per-Mathias Høgmo.
– Per-Mathias is a very exciting and good candidate, but the club is working with several. Nothing has landed, says sports director in Molde, Ole Jakob Valla Strandhagen, to TV 2
NRK writes that Høgmo will also be relevant for the job as national team manager in Iceland.
After Høgmo finished as national team manager in 2016, he worked as a coach and sporting director in Fredrikstad.
In the summer of 2021, he took over as head coach of Swedish Häcken in Allsvenskan. The following year, the club secured its first league gold. In December 2023, he took over as head coach of the Japanese club Urawa Red Diamonds, but already in August it was over.
Per-Mathias Høgmo has been head coach of Tromsø on several occasions, he has led several age-specific national teams and been head coach of Djurgården and Rosenborg.
