Rikard Norling
Rikard Norling in November 2011
Rikard Norling ( born June 4, 1971) is a Swedish football coach. After a brief playing career, he worked as a trainer, especially in the field of youth, before he coached several clubs in the higher-class Swedish and Norwegian football in 2002. In 2013 he won the Swedish championship titles with Malmo FF.
Career
Norling began playing football at IK Bele. There he played in the youth team at the side of later Swedish international's Johan Mjallby. In 1987 he moved to the youth of IF Brommapojkarna. Later he came under coach Erik Hamrén on the side of Fredrik Espmark and Pascal Simpson four times in Division 1 Norra, a field that was able to achieve a goal, before he had to end his career early age of twenty.
Norling moved to the dugout and was initially employed at IF Brommapojkarna in youth work. From 1994, he coached his hometown club IK Bele in the fourth division Division 3 Östra Svealand. After the first year were missing only a point to participate in the promotion round to the third league, the team was relegated to the second year Norling fifth.
In 1996, Norling an offer for AIK, to serve as a youth coach the youth team of the first division. In 1998, he moved on as assistant to the competition team, which contested the Allsvenskan and won in previous years, the Swedish National Cup. Under the new coach Stuart Baxter, the club national champion and cup winner was again. The Scot reached with the team AIK in the group stage of the Champions League 1999/2000 and after it was blocked after a verbal dispute with the fourth official during the clash with FC Barcelona for the game against Arsenal, Norling took his place on the bench in Wembley. After the departure of Baxter's 2000 Olle Nordin took over as coach and Norling returned to work of young people.
In 2002 he left AIK and took over the coaching job at Väsby IK. At his side, the longtime AIK professional Nebojsa Novakovic worked as a playing assistant coach. With the club, the two were at first season winner in the third-tier Division 2 Östra Svealand, but failed the team in the ascendancy games after two losses to soil BK. Also in 2003, succeeded the season victory, the rise was missed only in the promotion round again. Friska Viljor FC could afford a 2:3 home defeat after a 4-3 away win in the first leg to advance to the second division in accordance with the away goals rule.
In the 2004 Norling took over at GIF Sundsvall his first coaching job as a responsible manager in the Allsvenskan. As a coaching duo with Patrick Walker he could create with the club avoid relegation. However, he left the club after just one season.
Norling returned to AIK. The club was relegated in the previous year from the Allsvenskan and sought the direct return to the Swedish House of Lords. Under the direction Norling, which again assisted Novakovic, the team was charged with nine points ahead of second-placed Östers IF clearly second division champions. In the first division Norling knew how to surprise with his team. For a long time supplied the team with IF Elfsborg a duel for the Lennart Johansson - Cup, received by the Swedish national champion. At the end of the season the team a point behind the club from Boras had with better goal difference and had to settle for the runner. After the end of the 2006 season he was named coach of the year. In the UEFA Cup 2007/ 08 he led the team through qualifying in the first main round, but the team failed after a 0-0 draw and a 0-1 defeat at Hapoel Tel Aviv. In the league, the team missed the end of the 2007 season in fifth re- qualification for an international competition. Norling was not forthcoming Once in the following season 's success relieved of his duties after the season and replaced by Mikael Stahre.
In December 2009, the second division Assyriska Föreningen Norling presented as the new chief operating manager from 1 January 2010. During club from Södertälje, he signed a contract with two years duration. At the end of the second division season 2010, he finished with the team to fourth and missed the space occupied by his former club GIF Sundsvall relegation place by five points. In the early summer of 2011 he moved to the reigning champions Malmö FF to replace the migrated to Denmark Roland Nilsson. With the team he missed in the final qualifying round to the group stage of the UEFA Champions League 2011/ 12, in the group stage of the UEFA Europa League 2011/12 the club finished the last rank. After the club had in the meantime geschwächelt in the league, he led the club in the season run-up to the fourth place in the table, so that the new Euro Cup qualification was only narrowly missed. To so successful was the 2013 season when he won the Swedish championship title with the club.
A few weeks after the season Norling announced his departure from Malmö FF. A few days later Brann Bergen was the obligation of the coach known, who signed a valid contract until 2016. At the turn he made at his former club for irritation, as he campaigned against collusion to fitness trainer Simon Holyhead from his previous coaching staff. This announced the beginning of January his departure from Malmö FF. Ultimately, the two clubs agreed in late January for a change.