Olsen is the New Coach for Iraq

Mussab86 · May 17, 2007

Olsen is the New Coach for Iraq

Olsen went to Amman (Jordan) to meet our FA President Hussain Saeed
Our FA will make a contract with Olsen to be Iraq coach in WAFF Championship and the Asian Cup 2007.

Who the heck is Olsen? Any one knows him?
His full name Egil Roger Olsen and he is from Norway

kooora forums.

Mussab86 · May 17, 2007

To me I prefer our Olympic team Coach Yehya Alwan
At least he knows our Players.

Breezy · May 17, 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egil_Roger_Olsen

Egil Roger Olsen (born April 22, 1942) nicknamed "Drillo", is the most successful manager in the history of the Norwegian national football team. He coached the team from 1990 to 1998, guiding them to World Cup final tournaments in 1994 and 1998, Norway peaking as number two on the FIFA ranking. As of 2005 he is analyst for Vålerenga I.F.

Olsen was a successful player with 16 caps for the national team, earning the nickname "Drillo" from his dribbling skills.

In June 1999, the then 57-year-old Olsen made his appearance in English football when he was named as manager of Wimbledon F.C. He remained in charge for less than a year, and was sacked just before the club slipped out of the Premiership, having been top division members since 1986. He has since returned to Norway.

Olsen was a member of the Norwegian Workers' Communist Party (known as AKP(m-l)). He is also known for his immense knowledge of geography trivia.
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Olsen has sometimes been called a football professor for his scientific approach to football, and was arguably one of the first managers to use video analysis of matches. He has collected statistical data to find out which playing styles are the most efficient. As Norway manager, he argued that as Norway didn't have the players to beat the best teams, they needed a smarter playing style than them, and one that fit Norway's skills. Ironically, his preferred style of football has historically often been called primitive.

He has found that breakdowns, losing/gaining the ball, played an important role immediately prior to many goals, and that counter-attacks after breakdowns should be carried out as fast and directly as possible before the opponent can organise their defense. According to Olsen, only few goals are scored against what he calls an "established defense". As a large number of transverse passes or trying to play out an established defense with short passes and combinations increases the chance of a breakdown against, often in dangerous positions, his philosophy was to always make long passes against an established defense. More precisely, defenders should in these cases always play high, long passes towards attackers or flank players (and never short passes along the ground to central midfielders, as is often seen in international football). His use of a player with good heading abilities as a target man on the flank, such as Jostein Flo, was a major break with the established idea that all flank players should be small, quick and good dribblers.

He is opposed to stationary offensive players, and argues that offensive runs (also for players that do not possess the ball) should be carried out as often as possible when one's team has the ball, as multiple simultaneous runs are very difficult to defend against. He also holds the idea that breakthrough passes to the area behind the opponent's defensive line (bakrom (backroom) in Norwegian) should be sought out very often, and that frequent offensive runs towards this area is important. He also coined the phrase "å være best uten ball" (roughly "to be best at off-the-ball running", lit. "to be best without the ball") which gained some fame in Norway. It was originally said about Øyvind Leonhardsen, a player doing an exceptional number of runs during games.

He is also an ardent supporter of zone defense, as opposed to man-to-man marking. He also argues that players with extreme skills (extremely fast, extremely good headers, extremely good dribblers, extremely good passers etc.), as opposed to players with only good all-round skills, are important in football.

His long-ball philosophy, use of the 4-5-1 system and his teams' often extremely successful defending earned him a bad reputation of boring football, even during the period when his results as Norway manager were astonishing.

His thoughts, together with those of Nils Arne Eggen, have had a strong impact on Norwegian football. Norwegian club sides generally make many runs without ball, play zone defense and are very focused on fast counter-attacks. The idea of playing long balls against an established defense, however, has become increasingly unfashionable in Norway over the latest years.
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Statistics for the Norwegian national team with Olsen as manager: 88 matches; 46 victories, 26 draws, 16 losses. Goal difference: 168-63.
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They say he is a legendary manager for Norway (1990 ~ 1998)!

FCMB · May 17, 2007

1st congrats, finally you got a coach...

BUT his style of playing football will anger iraqi fans, belive me.

Mussab86 · May 17, 2007

Thanks guys... he is now in Jordan
And... He didn't said yes or no yet
So we don't want to rush thins.

If he said yes... I hope his assistance will be Iraq
Because we know our players better than him.

FCMB · May 17, 2007

I found an interesting picture of him...

IraqiFootball · May 17, 2007

I don't think it's confirmed yet Mussav. Got any links?

IraqiFootball said: ↑

الاتحاد العراقي يفاوض أولسن

Egil Olsen could be Iraq's next coach.

He's got a lot of expertise, guided Norway in World cup '94 & '98. He plays really boring defensive football, but very disciplined football. That's going to be something really new to Iraq. Allah Kareem.

His long-ball philosophy, use of the 4-5-1 system and his teams' often extremely successful defending earned him a bad reputation of boring football, even during the period when his results as Norway manager were astonishing.

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ruud van semz · May 17, 2007

iraq should win asian cup now

usausa-redded · May 17, 2007

why not worry about your team?

ruud van semz said: ↑

iraq should win asian cup now
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FCMB · May 18, 2007

Any updates?

Just read on kooora that Olsen will be coach for next month and that he'll get 15,000 € for every month.

Mussab86 · May 18, 2007

FCMB said: ↑

Any updates?

Just read on kooora that Olsen will be coach for next month and that he'll get 15,000 € for every month.
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Well... I don't know, But I hope this coach thing end soon
Because we were without coach since 4 months.

Btw... ruud van semz got Red Carded

FCMB · May 20, 2007

looks like Olsen will take charge after the Asian Cup, and a brazilian coach will coach Iraq during the AC Finals.

http://www.aljazeerasport.net/NR/exeres/6B8F1B53-8DE5-4D89-B551-B13BED61D813.htm

IraqiFootball · May 20, 2007

Yep, see I knew the Olsen deal wasn't confirmed yet.

Here's some info on the Brazilian coach:

WWW.IraqSport.com said: ↑

It does look like Jorvan Vieira will coach the team for three months. He is a former Vasco Da Gama player, who started coaching at the age of 23, and has coached in Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Egypt, Portugal, Brazil, Malaysia and his last coaching job was with Al-Taee in Saudi Arabia. He has spent most of his career in Morocco as assistant coach to Mehd Faria the famous Brazilian coach at the 1986 World Cup, and also coached at six Moroccan clubs. He is a Portuguese passport holder, and is married to a Moroccan, and speaks and understands Arabic (also speaks Italian, French, Portugese, Spanish and English)
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Source

IraqiFootball · May 20, 2007

Maybe Bonizzoni can give us more info on this man?

I have a feeling he's a very average coach.

FCMB · May 20, 2007

The last team he coached was the Malaysian U-20 team.

I wonder where Iraqi FA found this guy?

Di-Tomasso · May 20, 2007

Just give uss a damn coach.. the asiancup is just 2months away

Mussab86 · May 20, 2007

Our Sh!tty FA and Olsen did not reach for an agreement

FCMB · May 20, 2007

http://forum.kooora.com/f.aspx?t=4395417

oh the brazilian guy is coming...............

Mussab86 · May 20, 2007

FCMB said: ↑

The last team he coached was the Malaysian U-20 team.

I wonder where Iraqi FA found this guy?
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He was Al-Tai coach in Saudi League
Look at Al-Tai results (the 7th Place team)
http://www.goalzz.com/main.aspx?c=2047&stage=1

22 Matches
6 wins, 5 draw and 11 lose

Congratulations for us the Humiliation in the Asian Cup

FCMB · May 20, 2007

Nah, lets see how he'll do in Lebanon next month. Though I have to say that Iraqs chances of getting something in the Asian Cup are getting minimal.

IraqiFootball · May 20, 2007

Seriously, just send Yehya Alwan's Olympic team and integrate our main NT stars and we're good to go. They can take us to the quarterfinals and that's about it, a decent result.

iraq_foeva_proud · May 21, 2007

oh great, and i was saying that that olsen guy was no good 4 our team, man was i wrong.

Mussab86 · May 21, 2007

Guys I checked up about the Brazilian Coach
It turned that he is really good;
he made a great results for a weak team like Al-Tai
Before breaking up with Al-Tai (Problems with Al-Tai President)

3 Wins
Al-Tai 4-2 Al-Shabab
Al-Tai 4-2 Al-Ahli
Al-Faisaly 0-2 Al-Tai

1 Draw
Al-Tai 3-3 Al-Qadisya (Al-Tai got 2 sent off)

2 Loses
Al-Hilal 3-2 Al-Tai
Al-Ittihad 3-2 Al-Tai

IraqiFootball · May 21, 2007

Mussav said: ↑

Guys I checked up about the Brazilian Coach
It turned that he is really good;
he made a great results for a weak team like Al-Tai
Before breaking up with Al-Tai (Problems with Al-Tai President)

3 Wins
Al-Tai 4-2 Al-Shabab
Al-Tai 4-2 Al-Ahli
Al-Faisaly 0-2 Al-Tai

1 Draw
Al-Tai 3-3 Al-Qadisya (Al-Tai got 2 sent off)

2 Loses
Al-Hilal 3-2 Al-Tai
Al-Ittihad 3-2 Al-Tai
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Good attack, bad defense.

iraq_foeva_proud · May 21, 2007

IraqiFootball said: ↑

Good attack, bad defense.
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isnt that bad 4 us. coz we have good attackers and midfielders but bad defenders.