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Janne Andersson has been vacant for over a year.
Now the former league captain gives a new message about the future.
– I have basically decided, he tells Mitt in Stockholm.
It was at the end of 2023 as the Confederate Captain Janne Andersson left his coach assignment in the Swedish national team. Since then he has been looking for his next job.
Andersson’s message
There have been some rumors and speculation as well as offers, but now Janne has been unemployed for over a year. After seven years as a Swedish national team coach, where the advancement to the quarterfinals in the 2018 World Cup stands out most, he has been thinking about his future.
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Andersson has turned 62 years old and gives a new message about the coaching career. He now announces that he has decided to end it.
– I have basically decided not to be a football coach anymore. I quit last December last year and have operated my knee. I have said no to the offers that have come, the idea is to do something else before I get too old, he admits in an interview with Mitt in Stockholm.
Janne nowadays
Nowadays he lives on Lidingö and lectures on leadership. Andersson also has the role of ambassador for several charity projects such as the Child Cancer Foundation and the cardiac call.
– I do what I want and am free as a bird. It is a privilege, he tells the Local newspaper.
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In addition to the Swedish national team, Janne Andersson has also won the SM gold with IFK Norrköping 2015. He is often recognized on the street and is happy to stop to talk to other Swedes.
– During all my years as a coach, it has never happened that those who have arrived have said something negative. Those who want to talk or take a picture are kind people. It still occurs quite often and is something I have never had any problems with, he says in the interview.
Although the younger nowadays associate him for other than football.
– It’s fun with the youngest here on the street. They do not know that I have been the national team but recognize me as the mole from “masked singer”, says Janne.
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