Ståle Solbakken

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Ståle Solbakken
Staale Solbakken 1996.jpg
Ståle Solbakken (1996)
Personnel
birthday February 27, 1968
place of birth Kongsvinger ,  Norway
size 190 cm
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1985-1989 Grue IL
1989-1994 Ham-Kam 100 (35)
1994-1997 Lillestrøm SK 99 (34)
1997-1998 Wimbledon FC 6 0(1)
1998-2000 Aalborg BK 79 (13)
2000-2001 FC Copenhagen 14 0(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1994-2000 Norway 58 0(9)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2002-2003 Norway U18
2003-2005 Ham-Kam
2006-2011 FC Copenhagen
2011–2012 1. FC Cologne
2012-2013 Wolverhampton Wanderers
2013– FC Copenhagen
1 Only league games are given.

Ståle Solbakken (born February 27, 1968 in Kongsvinger ) is a Norwegian football coach and former football player . In 1995 he was voted Norwegian midfielder of the year .

Career as a player

Solbakken started playing football at Grue IL . In 1989 he moved to Ham-Kam , where he played until the end of 1993. From the beginning of 1994 to October 1997 he played for Lillestrøm SK . Then he went to England for 4 months at Wimbledon FC . In 1998 he moved to Denmark, where he spent his most successful time as a player. In 1999 he won the Danish championship with Aalborg BK , and in 2000 he won the Danish championship with FC Copenhagen .

For the Norwegian national team he played 58 games and scored nine goals. With the Norwegian selection he took part in the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 European Championship .

Solbakken ended his active career on March 13, 2001 after suffering cardiac arrest during training due to a previously undiscovered congenital heart defect and had to be reanimated. Since then he has been dependent on a pacemaker .

Career as a coach

Norway U-18 selection

He began his career as a coach with the Norwegian U-18 team and as an assistant coach for the senior national team.

Ham-Kam

From 2003 to 2005 he trained his former club Ham-Kam .

FC Copenhagen

He then became a coach at FC Copenhagen . With the club he won five Danish championship titles (in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011) and the Danish Cup in 2009 . He was u. a. Voted Norway's Coach of the Year in 2004.

1. FC Cologne

From January 2012, Solbakken should replace Egil Olsen and become Norwegian national coach , but then 1. FC Köln signed the Norwegian as the new head coach on July 1, 2011 after the Norges Fotballforbund had given him the approval.

After a sporting downturn for FC Solbakken was on leave on April 12, 2012, two days after a 4-0 defeat in Mainz.

Wolverhampton Wanderes

For the 2012/13 season he was coach at the English club Wolverhampton Wanderers , but was dismissed in January 2013 after a defeat in the FA Cup against the fifth division Luton Town . His assistant Patrick Weiser was also dismissed .

Return to FC Copenhagen

On August 21, 2013 he returned to FC Copenhagen , where he replaced the recently dismissed Belgian Ariël Jacobs .

Game system

Even more than other coaches, Solbakken relies on covering the area with zone defense. The back four stay close together at the same height and do not move to the side where the cue ball is. This is to avoid that a small full-back has to play centrally against an attacker with a strong header. In order to achieve this, you do not have to double on the outside with the outside and inside defenders. The full-back is supported by one of the two sixes. Solbakken lets the rows of four move up. The strikers should cover the opposing six and the outer midfielders should prevent the opponent from bridging the midfield via the outside lane. The opponent's game is thus directed outwards near one's own goal or, if in the middle, then further away from one's own goal. In July 2011, Solbakken studied various pressing signals with the 1. FC Köln team at the training camp at Walchsee (Austria).

If the distance from the striker to the defender is very large, no pressing is played, rather the players should try to keep the tape compact. But as soon as Solbakken's players notice that a badly played ball is on the way, which could cause problems when receiving the ball, the opponents are immediately attacked and pressing played. Another pressing signal is when an opposing defender has his back to the goal. The strikers then deliver the central defenders. The pressing signal then comes from the striker who is close to the ball. This means that the entire defense has to be geared towards the striker. If the striker then dies, all other team members should follow suit.

At 1. FC Köln this system did not work so well. The respective opponents very often crossed into the Cologne penalty area. Coupled with individual mistakes and what Solbakken called "mental weakness", this led to over 60 goals conceded in 30 games.

Achievements and Awards

player

Trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ welt.de: When Copenhagen's trainer was clinically dead , February 22, 2011.
  2. ↑ orf.at: A "dead person" writes history, Denmark celebrates Norwegians , December 9, 2011.
  3. ^ 1. FC Köln: Solbakken as a coach in conversation. May 11, 2011, accessed September 11, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Solbakken is the new coach at 1. FC Köln on sueddeutsche.de ( memento from May 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 14, 2011
  5. ↑ Solbakken on leave from April 12, 2012 at www.fc-koeln.de
  6. ^ Club Statement: New Boss Appointed ( Memento of May 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on www.wolves.co.uk of May 11, 2012
  7. ↑ Note in: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger v. January 7, 2013, p. 16
  8. ↑ Ståle Solbakken leaves Wolves ( Memento from January 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), notification on the Wolverhampton Wanderers homepage from January 5, 2013 (accessed on January 6, 2013).
  9. ↑ FC København skifter træner , accessed on August 21, 2013
  10. ↑ This is the football of the future, http://kicker.de/ print edition, August 18, 2011.
  11. ↑ New tactics from coach Stale Solbakken with 1.FC Cologne , July 18, 2011.
  12. ↑ Schaefer Reloaded and how the Solbakken system failed in Cologne , goal.com, April 13, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Solbakken, Ståle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Kongsvinger