Timrå has chosen to break the collaboration with the women’s team’s sports manager and coach, Georgina Farman. The reason is a spent trust in the club, announces Timrå on website.
It was on Monday evening that the playing squad, during a meeting with, among others, club manager Johan Sundberg, learned that Farman had been dismissed. A large majority of the playing squad chose to leave the meeting in protest.
– All but four. Right now, there are only four pieces of equipment hanging in the ladies’ locker room. The remaining girls have packed up and left Timrå IK. The way they have handled this is not worthy anywhere and we do not want to represent a club that has a club manager who handled this in such a bad way, says the player, Julia Kaldensjö, to SVT Sport and continues:
– It was a meeting where the club manager stood and read from inside. Four A4 pages why Georgina had to leave and smeared her in front of everyone. It was more like a personal attack against a person who wasn’t even allowed to be there to defend himself.
Feels treated differently
According to Kaldensjö, there is a group of four players who have wanted to get rid of Farman, as they feel discriminated against due to the lack of playing time.
– These four girls have had almost no playing time at all this season, so I can understand that they think our coaches are awful. But at the same time, I also don’t understand that you don’t have a little more self-awareness so that you realize that you are not at the level that you can take a place in the team.
On Saturday, NDHL jumbo Timrå plays the next game, this one against league leaders and undefeated Skellefteå – if you have a team to put on the ice.
– If I were to choose to continue representing Timrå, I would be ashamed. Those four girls and the new management can play against Skellefteå, so we’ll see how it goes.
So you won’t play for Timrå anymore?
– Absolutely not.
SVT Sport has applied for Timrå’s club manager Johan Sundberg.