Tottenham set-piece coach to join Potter’s Sweden setup

Former Brighton, Chelsea, and West Ham head coach Graham Potter landed firmly on his ft final week, changing into Sweden’s latest worldwide supervisor. That’s a fairly tender touchdown — Sweden are struggling in World Cup qualification and their possibilities of making subsequent summer season’s event are slim, though nonetheless mathematically attainable. It additionally signifies that Potter shall be managing and growing Lucas Bergvall throughout the subsequent few worldwide soccer cycles.

This isn’t uncommon for Premier League coaches. The Normal additionally notes that Frank’s high assistant, Justin Cochrane, has an identical association with Spurs and England the place he works with Thomas Tuchel throughout worldwide breaks and returns to Spurs when off of the worldwide cycle.

I’ve no notably sturdy takes on whether or not or not this can be a good factor, so I’ll say it’s. If nothing else, there’s a neat little connection for Bergvall between his Spurs coaching and his Sweden coaching. And hey, perhaps Lucas may help clean the transition for Georgson as he implements his set piece type on the Sweden gamers.