Sorensen has had to rebuild the team following nine departures, including internationals Claire Emslie and Kenza Dali.
“In Denmark, we had the ball maybe 80 per cent of the time for 90 per cent of the games and had to break every team down. It’s just the competition you’re playing against week in week out - really good opponents that will challenge,” he says. The other notable difference is the competitiveness of the teams he will now be facing.
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It is a standard that he knows he can demand at a fully professional club such as Everton, unlike his previous side - Fortuna are still semi-professional. The first thing Sorensen said to Everton’s players this summer was: “I expect 100 per cent, 100 per cent of the time.” “That’s what we’re trying to accomplish here, putting that identity into the team.” You need to keep possession, press really well, be well organised and work together. When they do that, that’s when the unpredictable stuff happens. “It’s more like a tight structure that people can break out of. “Where the magic happens is when they break out of that frame, but if you don’t have a frame to fall back on, you don’t know what your team-mates are doing. When you look at our team, hopefully you can see that clear identity. “We split it up into four phases, and in all of those phases we have a clear structure on how we want to do things. “We have a plan when we press, defend and attack,” says Sorensen, whose coaching methodology is inspired by Manchester United icon Sir Alex Ferguson. 🤝 | We have reached an agreement for Brian Sorensen to become our new manager ahead of the 2022/23 season, with the Dane signing an initial two-year contract. There was a lack of identity, organisation and cohesiveness. Going through three managers on their way to a 10th-placed finish in the 12-team league was a hefty fall from the heights Everton achieved in 2020-21, when they pushed hard for Champions League qualification before ending up in fifth. Sorensen’s wife Camilla Kur Larsen, who plays for Fortuna in the Danish first division, and their nearly four-year-old daughter, Rose, still live in Denmark but to transition to the WSL was an opportunity he decided he could not refuse.Īfter Everton’s slump last season, the only way is up.
“It is the sacrifice you need to make, but it’s a hard one,” the 42-year-old reflects, sitting in his club tracksuit at Everton’s Finch Farm training ground. Having spent the whole of his 13-year coaching career in his homeland - winning the league twice and the Danish Cup three times, as well as reaching the Women’s Champions League quarter-finals with Fortuna Hjorring in 2017 - managing in the Women’s Super League has long been Sorensen’s ambition.īut when Everton came knocking back in April, it was still a big decision for Sorensen to pack his bags and move to England.
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