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Ping pong star Truls Möregårdh breaks the silence around the conflict that arose between the Olympic silver medalist and the Swedish Table Tennis Association.
“Performing ping pong at world level is very much about security,” Truls Möregårdh writes in a text message to SVT.
The brawl is about who should be allowed to coach Truls Möregårdh During competitions. The star wants his brother Malte Möregårdh – Who is his personal trainer – should coach him in competitions.
“I train best when I get the information from match back into the training again. Quite obvious and “basic”. We in my team work since the Paris Olympics with a couple of technical things that I look forward to trying out the match, ”Truls writes to SVT.
Möregårdh in conflict
He also emphasizes that they work actively with the mental part.
“Important then with your own coach. I am tagged in developing further ”.
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Previously, the national team players had an opportunity to have a personal sponsor on the national team jersey, which for the Swedish worldjuan allowed him to have his brother on competitions as a match coach.
After this summer’s Olympic success, that opportunity disappeared when the agreements were rewritten. Möregårdh did not want to sign the agreement and then the union must have threatened to poke the star from the European Championships in Austria in October 2024.
– Three days before the European Championship last fall, the union put a deadline and told Truls that “you do not write you must not join”, said, said, Carl MöregårdhDad to Pingis Star, to Skånska Dagbladet this weekend.
Truls with own words
TT has had contact with the head of the federation Thomas Buza In the morning.
– We really have no comments at the moment. We are working on the issue, says Thomas Buza.
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Möregårdh refers to the French brothers Felix Le -brown and Alexis Lebrun -Both are top ten-ranked in the world-have an arrangement with their own coach.
“I play my best ping pong when I have a coach who knows me as a person and from daily training. There are many good match coaches in the world. The point is to know the player. All players have different arrangements and are different sensitive to who coaches, ”he writes in SMS to SVT.
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