it s surreal that one of the most famous footballers in the world has come out of this little place! a child like erling is spotted from the first kick on the ball in fact. every time erling changes club, this town changes colour. - fantastic guy, everybody liked him. he knew and we knew that he had a lot more in store for the future. when i was young, i wanted to become the best in the world. dreams do come true. my name is andreas vollsund. i m mayor of time kommune. bryne is the big city in this community.
a child like erling, when you re that quality, you re spotted from the first kick on the ball in fact. even at a very young age, erling had very good, - very high standard of coaching, which is a little bit unusual, - because in norway, at that young an age, very often, l the coaching will be - done almost by parents on a volunteer basis. erling happened to be part of a year who had a very. qualified coach- looking after them. for us, it was all about to develop the human being first, and after that, the football. we had three rules be on time, do your best, and behave. in a small place like bryne,i the role of the football club is to keep people active, to be a social place - for the kids. it s not necessarily. like a meat grinder, to get the most talented footballer out there. - so the emphasis is on things
like how to behave and be i a good teammate. this is the challenge of a club like bryne is that it s a very. small place, so the football club isn t just for the kids . who are enormously talented and are going somewhere, i it s also just for the kidsj who want to stay active. the challenge for the coaches is always how can you includej everyone while also challenging the very best and not separate i them from their mates? erling was gentle, nice, funny, he always scored a lot, he smiled a lot, he trained a lot, but he was one of the 40, so he was treated the same way as the other 40. he and his friends played three, four, five hours every saturday, every sunday. they get a lot of time playing, they kept the tempo high, it was important for them to win, so even though they weren t thinking that this is training, i think it was probably the best training they could get. i played at bryne since 2014,
bryne is a small place, but a warm place, a place where everyone knows each other. the people in bryne, in time kommune, in the jaeren, as we call it here, is, yeah, friendly people, but working, hard working people. bryne is the biggest place in an area called jaeren, which is a very agriculture heavy place, there s a lot of farms. right outside of the city, you can see green grass everywhere, so we re very proud that we have so many good, hard working farmers. we can get the best food on the table and being strong as erling! only 12,000 lives here. people quite friendly, but quiet. we won t use ten words i or if one word is sufficient, or even a meaningful pause. you can see that in erling.
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