Last time we were attended the SK Vard Haugesund headquarter and
now we are going to visit FK Haugesund.
The club represented itself in the Europa League
qualification this year so it was a busy season for them. We will talk with
Runar Nordvik who leads the media department at FKH.
Q: The club finished in the
10th place in the league, 4th round in the Norwegian Cup and 2nd round in
the Europa League qualification. Generally, are you satisfied with the season?
Nordvik: No. The last two months were very poor, so, we lost more or less everything that
we had worked for for the first seven months of the season. We were looking for
a spot among the top four in Norway, but due to some very poor results and some
we went up to the standard for the last two months...
Riskligaen: Yeah, it was seven losses in the last eight matches.
Nordvik: Yes. So, in general we are by no means pleased with the season we are
quite pleased with our performance in the Europa League, because we almost knocked
Lech Poznan out, of course we would have preferred to knock them out, but
I think we surprised them in terms of quality, but we met them at
the time during summer where we were one of the best teams in Norway, I think only
Rosenborg was better thank us at the time and we went unbeaten for 14 matches
in all competitions and we won more or less every everything we just had to
show up and we knew with we would win the match at the time because we were in
such a good form and had such a much confidence within the team but in terms
of the league 10th spot not good enough by far for us.
Our aim before every season is to become top six.
Riskligaen: And what do you think about the Norwegian Cup?
Because Haugesund lost at their home place,
in this stadium, and in that time the team was really good.
It was almost unbeatable at home.
Nordvik: Yeah. We lost in a match which we dominated quite
severely, I think the statistics from the game
tell us that we won the corner statistics with 20 to 1 it says a little
bit about how the match occured, but football is about scoring goals we met a
very good team first of all and they went here played it tactically
quite clever, aimed for the counter-attacks and
more or less parked the bus. But after the game Molde's manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær as I
said he said they were dead lucky coming away with a win because we had
dominated the game completely. So, we are not pleased with going out of the
cup tournament at that stage, but in terms of the performance
it was our goal scoring but that let us down and the actual performance was quite
good. Although, most people only tells story if you win or lose if you lose you
have been playing bad if you win you have been playing good, but it's not that
simple you can win matches where you are playing bad and you can lose matches
where you're playing good, so this was one of the matches which we lost
although we played quite quite good.
Riskligaen: What do you think what was the problem in the
championship at the end of the season? Tiredness or transfers?
Nordvik: A little bit of both.
I think we had a very young team we have one of the youngest teams in Europe.
Actually, I saw a statistic recently that said that we were among top 20 in Europe
in terms of the youngest squad.
So, during the summer we sold two quite influential players in terms of
experience and that suffered us quite well throughout the autumn and
towards the end of the season because there was really no one to pick up the
responsibilities that those players had, so we lacked someone to lead the way,
to use their experiences in difficult matches. I would say that was
quite evident for the last few months that we lacked a certain character in
the team because we had to sell them during summer.
Riskligaen: When I checked the transfers after the summer period I thought
the coach started to build a new team. Nordvik: Yes.
Riskligaen: Because at the beginning of the year, when I was here, you told me that
usually, if you sign a player from a different football culture, it needs at least a half year.
Nordvik: Exactly. Riskligaen: And you signed three players from
a different culture, so it means probably they will reach their best from the beginning of the
next season. Nordvik: Yes. Unfortunately, Marko Cosic from Croatia
he has ruptured his ligaments in the knee, so he will be out for 8 months or
something like that. Kovacevic from Serbia very good player but he definitely needs
to adjust to Norwegian football and the way we are playing. And then we have
"Kuba" Serafin from Poland who's arrived here on loan from Lech Poznan. He's a very good
player and he has probably adjusted faster than anyone would expect, but you
are you absolutely right - summer signings: they are not expected to
come here and dominate from day one. You need to adjust to life, to football, to everything,
and then more or less every foreigner that we have got they show a
completely different side of themselves as footballers after more or less half a year.
Riskligaen: We can say that in the championship the defense was very good and very
stable, they didn't have injuries so I think it was a big help for the club,
but we could see that there was only two teams who scored less than Haugesund.
Do you think there was a problem there? There was a lack of depth?
Nordvik: Definitely. Our major problem last season was or this season was
we never got up to the standard required in terms of attacking football we were
good in terms of defending - kept clean sheets for many matches - but we for a lot
of reasons, for various reasons we never
managed to establish a very good attacking style of play.
It was, especially towards the end of the season, we struggled severely
in terms of creating both chances and scoring goals. It wasn't due to
the quality of the forwards, because you defend as a team and you
attack as a team and they didn't get the support needed from there, from the rest
of the team towards the end of the season, it was simple as that. So, our
biggest improvement for next season has to come in terms of attacking play
Riskligaen: What do you think these players needs to play better or it needs some new signings?
Nordvik: I think we need I think we need a few signings, because I think a lot of
our players are quite similar. They don't give the coach any options, in terms of
mixing the pair up front we have two quite small players, so we are looking
for someone with other qualities than what we already got.
Riskligaen: So, we are talking about a tall player. Nordvik: Yes.
Riskligaen: I think I'm correct that the domination was good in
the matches but they couldn't score.. Nordvik: No.
Riskligaen: ..from that domination, because these small strikers were fast,
but they weren't good at heading. Nordvik: No, exactly. So, we need
we are currently looking for a new forward which has to give us some size and
strength and be probably better in the air then the options we've already got
and we're also looking for some at least one player with pace that we can use
on either side either the left side or the right side just to make sure that we
get some quality that we are currently lacking in that position as well of
those two positions as well. Riskligaen: Are you looking for players in Norway or in
from the Balkan. Nordvik: No, we are looking everywhere.
The problem with players in Norway that they are extremely expensive compared to
foreign players. Although, they don't need that kind of adjustment
to football that foreigners usually do. So, it's probably a safer bet
finding a Norwegian player, but it's a question of whether you can afford it or
not. The best players are of course wanted by more or less every club, so..
We are not capable of competing with the biggest clubs in Norway.
Riskligaen: The club signed Grindheim already from Vålerenga, what do you think
what can he add to the team? Nordvik: Winning mentality. And experience.
Exactly what we lacked at the latter, second half of this season.
He has played throughout Europe, won titles, has a mentality that never
accepts anything less than 100% in training and in matches, so he is exactly
the kind of player we are looking for and of course he is borned
in Haugesund and used to play for FK Haugesund, so bringing him back home will be
major importance to us and I think everyone is very excited about him
returning to the club after 13 years in Europe and in Oslo.
Riskligaen: We've talked about positive and negative movements of the year,
but what was the most remarkable moment for you?
Nordvik: The most remarkable moment.. I would say the goal in overtime
against our main rival Viking here at Haugesund Stadion. We didn't play very
well that match either, you could tell that we were looking tired and that
we were going into a difficult time but we managed to fight our way back into
the game first equalize and then get the winner,
and by doing so we're more or less made sure that they would be relegated there
was no way back after that came for Viking, so we sent them down. It should
be said that we are very fond of Viking here in Haugesund. They are
rivals but they are a very important rival. So we would like Viking to return
to the Eliteserien as fast as possible and hopefully they will be back already
next season because we need to play more matches like those against Viking and
not fewer of those matches. So it's a sort of ambient rivalry
they are rivals but you sort of.. we have a lot of respect for them and we
like them in terms of they are a great club with great history and
of course very important to us having a rival in terms of attracting crowds
and those are the most interesting matches. Riskligaen: Yeah. I read that the club will
start a podcast called Propagandakontoret. Can you provide some information about it?
Nordvik: Yes. It's a podcast that will be sent on a weekly basis I will be the host and we
will make sure that players and coaches and staff members and also people from
outside the club are regular guests and makes us capable of digging much deeper
into various matters, our supporters on other platforms or in other media so
here you can speak about one certain element of either a result or the
preparations or something like that and you can really dig deep and have some
really good discussions on a few lesser subjects and
and hopefully make sure that people who is interested in the club and
interested in what's going on at the club gets a lot wiser in terms of the
way club is thinking and that kind of stuff. So this will be a podcast about
FK Haugesund by FK Haugesund and that's why we have decided to call it
Propagandakontoret which means the office of propaganda
it's a tongue-in-cheek way to express that we are discussing ourselves
sort of. I think it could become a very interesting podcast for those
who are really concerned and interested in what's going on at the club
Riskligaen: Okay, thank you Runar, thank you for your time. I'm always glad
to talk with you about football. Nordvik: Thank you always welcome to visit us Tamás.
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