Nielsen: we was vital a dream

• Nielsen guided Denmark to this year’s UEFA Women’s EURO final




• The 45-year-old quiescent as inhabitant group manager during a finish of August 




• “My dream is usually to travel around with a grin on my face any day”

History teaches us that some things can't be likely and that life is always full of surprises – and women’s football is no different. When Denmark faced Germany in a quarter-finals of a UEFA Women’s EURO, a two-time universe champions from a land of poets and thinkers were deliberate such transparent favourites that a outcome seemed unavoidable to many onlookers. Yet a group celebrating during a final alarm were a Danes, who eventually progressed all a approach to a final.

“We had some bad fitness with injuries usually before a EUROs and during a tournament,” explained Nils Nielsen in an speak with FIFA.com. “What my group was unequivocally good at, and what we was unequivocally unapproachable of, is a approach they rubbed these problems. we was unequivocally happy with their performance, generally opposite Germany in a quarter-final.

“The players indeed believed they could win, and that’s something we worked utterly a lot on. we was unequivocally happy that it was my group violence Germany – we finished history,” he continued, before adding with a smile, “This summer we was vital my dream. The usually thing that could have finished it improved was to indeed win a final. We didn’t, though it was still a good dream.”

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That dream went to additional time when Nielsen was named among a 3 finalists for The Best FIFA Women’s Coach 2017. “It’s positively not something we expected, though these kinds of surprises are always nice,” a Greenland-born manager pronounced cheerfully. “I’m unequivocally looking brazen to a Awards Show. we never suspicion we would go to something like that, as we have to be invited or be one of a organisers. As I’ll never be one of a organisers, a usually approach we could ever see a uncover would be by being nominated – so I’m utterly happy about that.”

It is no warn to hear Nielsen speak about wanting to suffer any impulse of a experience. The same can certainly be pronounced of a other finalists in a FIFA Women’s Coach category – and a former Brondby manager was full of regard for his associate nominees.

Nielsen on Sarina Wiegman
“I’ve met a Netherlands manager a few times, not usually when we played opposite any other. we like her; she is a unequivocally good manager and is doing a good pursuit for women’s football. She rubbed being a hosts of a EUROS unequivocally well. we have a top honour for her as a manager and a person.”

Nielsen on Gerard Precheur
“I don’t indeed know him personally. we can usually see a good formula he has had with his group over a years. we really have a good understanding of honour for what he has done.”

While Nielsen can also demeanour behind on a conspicuous duration of success with Denmark’s women’s inhabitant side, he motionless in Aug to step down from a conduct manager position he had hold given 2013.

“I don’t know what’s subsequent for me. When we find a plan that can make me feel a same approach as this did, afterwards I’ll be all over it. we would really give it my all, usually as we did with this team. It was time for me to pierce on, usually as it was time for a girls to get a new manager that could give them some new inspiration.”

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