Kjetil Rekdal continues in Start – Feier all doubts set aside. Rekdal is now focusing on promoting

ULLEVAAL STADION (Dagbladet): For the legend of football, Kjetil Rekdal (50 years), this weekend has become a special event.

First, he came down with Start. The next day, he received the honorary trophy Kniksens of Norwegian football.

It was a touched, surprised and humble Rekdal who had received the award, but was worried that his mind was already on his way back to Kristiansand and Start. There he met important days.

– Football consists of ups and downs, difficult thanks and pleasant thanks. You can not change it. There is no one who wins every game. You have to make the most of it, that's the challenge wherever you go, "says Rekdal in Dagbladet.

Longer perspective

For all those who should have doubts: Kjetil Rekdal intends to continue in Start also after the reprint.

– It was really when I arrived. I had a good job at Eurosport, where I enjoyed it, and if I finished it, it was not a six month project. Then I had to have a longer perspective on this, "said Rekdal.

Rekdal has signed a three-year contract with the Southern Country Club.

Dagbladet commentator Morten Pedersen wrote after the recession that well-informed sources could tell John Arne Riise to seize the position of "Rekas".

"When John Arne Riise started training his coach and announced his return to football, anything can happen." For Riise, from the gaming industry where Start owners earned their money, according to my information, he could be interested in a job in Kristiansand. "

– John Arne is John Arne. One day he will probably be brought to light while he is training too. But if it happens in my work or in someone else 's time, time will show it, says Rekdal.

– Blytungt

Rekdal arrived at Start this summer after a difficult start to the season for the southern countries. The goal was to avoid relegation.

And when the recession was a fact Saturday night, Rekdal admits it was hard to swallow.

"We lived under a crazy pressure all year long and we knew it was a possible outcome.We have never been so far as we were safe, but never completely unable to cope. Someone had to go down, and unfortunately it was us.We were just not good enough on more than thirty series.But we have to work.If we feel sorry for ourselves, we will not get there, Rekdal says.

However, he finds that the team has progressed since this summer. That's the only winner, says Rekdal.

– It makes it even harder to swallow. At the present time, we were not a relegation team. But the fact is we are down. Then we are obviously not good enough. Obviously it's heavy. He's shy I can not say anything other than that, "says Rekdal.

He keeps on:

"Football is a sport, do not forget it, it's not about life or death, but as long as you're alive you can come back," he says.