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Age Hareide yesterday he handed in his resignation from the role of technical commissioner of Iceland and shortly afterwards he made a shocking announcement: at 71 years old, the Norwegian coach is leaving the world of football.
“I’ve made up my mind. I have a knee problem and if I want to continue coaching I have to be at my best,” he told NRk. Hareide is a legend of Scandinavian football and has also had experience on the benches of Molde, Helsingborg, Brondby, Örgryte, Viking, Malmö, Rosenborg and the Norwegian and Danish national teams. He won the championship in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, plus various national cups.
With Denmark he reaped the greatest satisfaction (from 2016 to 2020): he came close to the quarter-finals of the 2018 World Cup and achieved an incredible streak of 34 games without defeat.