Rosenborg-Aalesund: Fifty Shades of Helland

Rosenborg won 5-0 against Aalesund, in the first match of Tippeligaen. Pal André Helland scored 2 goals and missed 1 penalty. Will be this his season?

The season finally started. Rosenborg finally won. Exactly 1 year ago, Rosenborg tied 1-1 at the second round, after the 2-2 against Viking. Last season We started badly and finished worse. This season Rosenborg have decided to play with heart and agonism, in order to win something. A good beginning bodes well, especially if you have Helland.

I'm a fan of Pal André, since his first season in Trondheim. Maybe this will be his season. We cannot judge a player from the first round, this is true, but I hope that this year shall be the consecration year for him. 

Maybe we can see a renovated Soderlund, and someone like Jensen or Riski that can bring our team above all in Tippeligaen. And Maybe in Europe...

But the 19.000 supporters deserve a praise. Another year togheter, through thick and thin...


@MondoRBK

The season of the departures

The last season could be defined as the "season of the departures". Why? Because we have lost 4 players good enough for the Tippeligaen and the Europe League. However, when a society is in crisis, doesn't have money and doesn't have ideas, the best thing it can do is to start over. 

NIELSEN - We've lost Nicki Bille Nielsen, a player that gave us many problems, it's true, but the one that in 50 appereances scored 24 times, almost 1 goal in 2 matches. Yes, the club was able to sell him the double to the Evian (in euros, he was bought for 675.000€ and sold for 2 millions), but the fact is that now we've lost one of the best players we had. How the club will use that money?

CHIBUIKE - The nigerian midfielder left us with 87 appareances and 32 goals. But the statistics cannot explain the importance that the player had in the matches. Strong, powerfull, one of the best midfielder able to stop the opponent's counterattack. Obviously he wasn't the best player at all all over the world, sure, but for our dimension, for a club that wanna play the Europe League and win the Tippeligaen, John Chibuike was really good. And we lost him.

DISKERUD - Unacceptable. This departures cannot be justified. No money can explain it, also because he left us free. Totally free. Our club wasn't strong enough to let him sign another contract, and so he was totally free to go to anoher team. It is said to Mexico, or USA soccer league. Sure, he's strong and Rosenborg cannot let him to win anything, and so he wanted to go away. But the fact is that we have lost a real good player. USA national midfielder, the 24 aged player has a glorious future. And we wasn't able to sell him. 

GAMBOA - Nothing to say. I've just repeat the same thing I wrote about Diskerud. You have just to change his role, fullback. After his very very good World Cup in Brazil everyone in Trondheim could bet on his departure. And so, West Bromwich Albion bought him for almost 3 millions (in euros). I can bear his departures, because he didn't leave us for free, but I'm very sad because he's a very good fullback. 

Start over, it's the only way left. Everything depends on the way the club will spend his money. Rosenborg, revive!

@mondorbk #MondoRBK

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2014, the review. Rosenborg 2015: a new beginning?

This 2014 is finished, fortunatly. Rosenborg lived one of his worst season ever. I think it's necessary to review the season, and so... begin!

TIPPELIGAEN - Everyone hoped that in this season Rosenborg would have fought to win the league, but soon our dreams became nightmares. During the season the team has dissolved , like snow under the sun , so the society had to fire one of the worst coaches that Rosenborg have ever had during his recent history, Perry. Fortunately there was a general review , which led to remove also Erik Hoftun , degraded to assistant coach .

EUROPE - We was afraid of a unknown irish-team, Sligo Rovers, that was very close to leave us from the Europe League qualifications. But Rosenborg preferred to be cut out at the climax, and so waited the turkish team Karabuskpor to be leaved off of the tourney. Nothing to say, we hoped we could play the final phase of Europe League, but we knew we didn't have a good team in order to arrive in that phase.

NM CUPEN - Last sixteen. The previous year we was defeated by Molde, and it was very frustrating and humiliating, but this year we was able to overcame ourselves. Ranheim, a Trondheim team of the second league in Norway, a sort of Rosenborg second-team, defeated us and leaved us from the NM Cupen, the only trophey we could have won. This year.

DEPARTURES - Bille Nielsen, Chibuike, Gamboa, Diskerud: all of them , for different reasons , have decided to leave Rosenborg to try new experiences abroad .The problem is that these four players were the only ones able to make the leap to the team , which now has to start from scratch.

2015: It's time to start from scratch, for serious. We have to bet on youngsters , respecting the history of the most successful club in Norway, our. The supporters, that'll never give up Rosenborg, deserve something special this year.

MondoRBK: Thanks for reading my blog, even if in this season I was constricted to abandon for a while (while? .... ) the blog (but not the RBK!). My promise is to improve this blog , and inform How much more I'll can the supporters of Rosenborg all over the World.

See next year!

@mondorbk

Erik Hoftun: The soap opera goes on

Erik Hoftun finally decided what to do with his life. The former RBK defender will be the assistan of Ingebrigsten, like he was during this season.

Now Ivar Koteng has to find out a new Director of football. The president said that: "The new director of football hasn't to be someone who works in soccer world"

Maybe, indeed, it's better to have someone who doesn't come from soccer. Maybe it's better to have someone else, anyone but Hoftun.

@MondoRBK

Rosenborg, Nielsen: the new player's words

Emil Nielsen, the danish former Roskilde forward, spoke about his transfer to Rosenborg:

"RBK was the team who followed me the most. The society knows my skills. Many teams tried to buy me, and I was in trouble, but at the end I decided to go to Rosenborg"

Nielsen collected 17 presence and 7 gold In the danish Second Division.

"In November I was afraid of my departure abroad, out of Denmark. But I thought it was better to live alone, playing soccer. I'll be under pressure, yes, but this is my job, and Rosenborg is a great team"

The danish played twice with his national team

"I trained a couple of time with the team during last month, and it was incredible. It was something terrific, so different compared to Rosklide. I have my own locker, with my name, and a car with driver brought me to training"

The hope is that this Nielsen will be quieter than the other one, but strong like the other one.

Loberto goes to Sandnes Ulf?

Andrea Loberto, the italian assistant coach, may go away from Rosenborg, just one year later he was hired.
Loberto was the one who studied the video, and make (or made?) the analysis about the matches watching videos.
Now Sandnes Ulf wants him as main coach, in order to replace Andrsen and try to win the second league.

@mondorbk

Bye bye Storevik?

The third goalkeeper of the team, the 18 aged Storevik, should leave Rosenborg in the next transfer market. As we said days ago he wanna play more. I thought he could have be gone away in loan, but rumors said he will be sold.  Rumors also said the team interested in him should be Sogndal. 

@mondorbk

Ronning And Sormo in loan

Levanger,  the team that won against us in the last season in the national cup, wanna take in loan our players: Ronning and Bent Sormo.  Both of them were born in Levanger,  and the club is thinking about their departure.
In the last season Ronning  reject to play when the coach was Per Joar Hansen,  and that behavious ruined his weak feeling with the supporters.

Where were we?

Hi guys
I was very busy, and so I couldn't write anything about Rosenborg from July untill now. What happened? So many things, I saw the last post I wrote was about Per Joar Hansen, the former coach. It was substitued by Ingebrigsten, the one who is still coach today. Our team arrived at second place in Tippeligaen 2014: it means that e shall play the Europa League qualifications. Last year, this season, we did not win the last qulification match, and so we had not the possibilities to play the play-off match.
What's the situation now?

MIX DISKERUD - The Norwegian-USA midfielder  during his permanence at Trondheim was often tempted by very important soccer teams, all over the european leagues, but he decided everytime to stay in the Tippeligaen. Now his future is doubtful, because the tension is high at Trondheim.

IT'S HARD TO BREATHE - The Rosenborg economic state is in a bind: the managers said that the sponsors money are not enough, and the tickets too. So it was necessary to sell someone: Berntsen, that went to Djurgarden. The causes of this situation are three: Nielsen, Chibuike and Brede Moe, good players sold or few moneys.

FRIENDLY MATCHES - Seeing that the training for last season was injurious and deleterious, this year mr. Inge decided that was necessary to have few friendly matches against weak teams. The hope is that this decision will be a good decision.

I'm glad to write in this blog, after so many complicated months of silence. I whish you had understood what I wrote!

Forza Rosenborg

@mondorbk

Perry coward leaves Rosenborg.

All we wanted Perry leaves us. Do not take it personally, Perry, but you are not fit to be a coach. Or at least to do it in Trondheim. Or at least with Rosenborg. You say that there was too much pressure, what should tell your colleagues working in England, Spain or Italy? If you complain of pressure, trust me, change job man. 

You leave Rosenborg before the match against Sligo Rovers, as a captain when leaves the sinking ship. And who does it (and we know something in Italy, with Schettino and the Concordia), is disgraced and shunned by everyone, because he's coward. 

Perry, have a little more courage in life. You had to remain untill the defeat with Sligo Rovers, in order to close definetively your "era". 

Maybe you could have won, who knows?

What did we expect?

It was obvious that it would end in this way. Rosenborg, as it is structured today, can not get over the qualifications of Europe League. And if we will do it, it would be because of one or two players, or cause we are luck. It 's absurd to keep hoping that something will change if we all do not move. We have to make Hoftun go away, we must re-establish this society as glorious as Rosenborg is. 

Losing against Sligo Rovers ... absurd. Absurd because there is not only the history by our side, but also a team much stronger. 

Or not?

Gamboa pride of Rosenborg

In a video-interviews posted on Adressa.no Gamboa shows us how happy it was to be back in Trondheim. Yes, it would be best to be still in Brazil, maybe playing against Germany this match, but with his national team he played very well, with courage and passion, in order to make his countrymen happy and pride to be Costaricians.

Welcome home Cristian, we miss you a lot, and we wanna be back in Europe. We need you for this, and we absolutely want you. 

Heart, courage and luck

How could we won yesterday? It was crazy, we were 2-0 then... the darkness. Strandberg did himself, the defense turned off itself, and Haugesund could overcome us. How could they do it?! 
Incredible, we could win just because they had the, according to me, worst keeper in our league. Yes, he's young and he has to improve himself, but fortunatly against us wasn't good. 
But in Europe we cannot hope in the keeper of the other teams, we have to stay in the match, concentrated. 

Helland, Riski and Jensen well done, but we're dependent on Gamboa and Diskerud!

C'mon Rosenborg, let's going on! Perry: finally you're lucky! At least...

Immense Gamboa, but don't show you up!

I wanted to write a post about Gamboa, because of his magnificient match against Uruguay with his CostaRica. He showed to the world how strong he is, how powerfull and fast. But now we all know how does it work: a great team sees him, obviously it likes him and wants to buy him. So, I just want to make a plea: Cristian, don't show you up!

Of course I'm joking, and we all love you. Cristian, be the pride of all us.

Perry, are you kidding me?

That's incredible. Ok, you won, Perry. You're winning, and maybe you were right when you talked about the pshysical condition of our players. But, are you kidding me? Incredible, the more I criticize you, more you win, and when I say you're a good coach (very rarely) you lose. How does it possible Perry?! Ok, I don't wanna be so egocentric, surely my words don't touch anyone, but just to...

Perry you're bad. You're ugly and maleficient. You stink.

Now win.

The Saelnes' hoop. A scream for a victory

That's finally what I wanted to see! Courage, anger, desire to fight and win, even suffering. And all this has been well summarized by the hoop, the scream of Saelnes after the first goal. But it was also visible in the shot of Mikkelsen, shot full of anger and desire to win that damned game. Well done guys, this is your victory. Deplorable behaviour adopted by Strandberg, the team cannot be never left alone. But, my point of view does not change: Hoftun and Perry have to go away, because a victory today may unfortunately mean a defeat more devastating in the future, and this is what every fan wants to avoid.

Open Letter to Mr. Per Joar Hansen

On "Adressa.no" were written six points that explain why Perry should go away. What I noticed, and interested me, were the points about the training: this is the main reason why Perry lost the trust among the players. I read:  low-intensity exercise, uncertainty 
formation, tactics and team selection. I wrote something about, when I said that Perry was a liar when he said that before the summer the team should have had the best physical condition (and the latest matches showed us the truth).

So, Perry, How long must we wait before you understand that your sad adventure in Rosenborg is finished? First you will understand it, the best will be for everyone. You have everyone against you: players, staff, supporters. What do you want to do? 
Think about it tonight. 

With love, 

Mondo Rosenborg

It's time to make a change

Ok, Perry finally went home, and probably something will change, even if we still don't know who will be our coach. But maybe this is the chance to change radically our society, starting from the top. I'm talking about Hoftun, of course. This kind of working, this kind of thinking, is the worst I've ever seen, and, yes, is very difficult to accept it, but we have to start again. Change everything, challenging a new era for us. And this is the moment, maybe risking to not go in Europe (even if is very very easy to pass the qualifications for the Europa League). By now, however, is maybe the hardest defeat to face with. After the defeat with Molde, losing in this way a NM Cup derby... 
Ok, we didn't have neither Mix nor Gamboa, but Ranheim is Ranheim...

However, c'mon Rosenborg and wake up. We all are waiting for you. 

Here I am - News

Obviously everyone in the earth wondered himself: "Where is Mondo Rosenborg? I cannot live without his news about the most succesfull team in Norway!". So, here I am, and there's a reason why I didn't write anything. Rosenborg is my passion, sure, but my life (and the life generally) is full of other things, more important that soccer. I won't go into details, but I've taken this opportunity to change the way of writing in this blog (yes, I'd made too much changes since I've started, but... this is me). I will not write the analysis of the matches, that were very boring and written in a bad english, but I'll write (as in every blog in internet) my impressions on the match, and seeing the Rosenborg situation, I think I'll write only vets, words full of anger. 
So, I hope you'll read my blog in future, and... Forza Rosenborg!

P.S.: I write the analysis of the matches in Italian on "Tribuna Italia", an online newspaper. If you wanna see something...

Molde showman at Lerkendal

How does it possible to let our enemy play in this way in our home? Too many errors, stupid errors that we cannot do if we wanna be a great team. Above al, what I really hate in this team is the behaviour, we wre absent minded, we wrong every match in this way, and the real question remain: what will we do in Europa? We will do the same show Tromso did this winter? I dont wanna be the joke of Europe, I want to play first of allin Champions, and then demonstrate how Rosenborg strong is. In every match we have to show our history, and we certainly can lose a match, but not in this way. Man withouts balls. Nothing more to say right now.