Police officer in his youthful days, Dennerby doesn’t yell when Indian girls gamers make errors

Indian girls’s soccer group head coach Thomas Dennerby doesn’t consider in yelling at his gamers once they make errors and he attributes that trait to his stint as a police officer in Sweden, the place he learnt what holds extra worth in life.
Dennerby, who’s guiding the Indian group within the upcoming AFC girls’s Asian Cup to be hosted by the nation in February-March, feels that yelling at gamers does work on a regular basis.
“If you’re a coach that yells at the players every match at half-time, then over a period of time, the players also get sensitised to that and it stops having the desired effect,” Dennerby mentioned.
“But if you do it on occasions when it is required, then it hits them when you do it. Do it only if you have a very good reason to be angry, otherwise don’t do it. That’s my opinion,” he mentioned in a launch from All India Football Federation.

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But it isn’t that he by no means feels upset or indignant at his gamers.
“I will be indignant perhaps a few times in a yr. That comes once I see folks not making an attempt laborious. As lengthy as you strive, put in your greatest effort, and play the sport with ardour, I by no means get indignant even should you make a mistake.
“When I see someone being lazy, or not following the plan, or not caring for it, that upsets me. But it’s something that also comes with age. My temperament used to go up and down when I was younger, but with age, I’ve mellowed down a lot,” mentioned the 62-year-old Swede.
Dennerby, who had additionally coached nationwide groups of Sweden and Nigeria and earlier than taking cost of India, performed for Stockholm-based first division membership Hammarby IF for eight years from 1977. He then performed for Sparvagens IF earlier than pursuing a profession in teaching.
While enjoying as a semiprofessional participant, he additionally labored as a police officer concurrently.

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“I used to be on the Police Academy again in my youthful days…the primary seven years once I performed soccer, we have been semi-professionals. We have been law enforcement officials, fire-fighters, somebody can be driving an ambulance, and so forth.
“You needed to have an schooling and a job as a result of the cash you’d earn from soccer was not sufficient. You may reside on it, nevertheless it was on the sting.
“I used to go around in my patrol car, and that gave me a different perspective in life. It taught me things that are important in life, and things that are not.”

He mentioned caring for struggling folks or typically stopping a suicide as a part of his job as police officer taught him “to better value the more important things in life”.
“Sometimes, once I began teaching, I may go patrolling the entire night time, perhaps remedy some actually dangerous household situation. When you see what you see on such nights, you may’t come again (within the morning) and begin yelling at folks (gamers) for lacking a go, since you get one other feeling of what issues are vital in life.
I”‘ve also done my fair share of surveillance, so I’ve needed to cope with among the worst criminals in Sweden, and that modifications your perspective in life. You realise issues which can be actually vital, and issues that aren’t.”
The girls’s AFC Asian Cup, to be competed amongst 12 groups in Mumbai and Pune from January 20 to February 4, is a qualifying occasion for the 2023 FIFA World Cup.
India play their first match in opposition to Iran on January 20, adopted by video games in opposition to Chinese Taipei (January 23) and China (January 26). The group is at present coaching in Kochi.