Norway are flying high in the UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying round with three wins in three and new country futsal team is looking to emulate the footballers of Romania this week.
Side stretches Sæther made a spectacular debut in sport in UEFA Futsal EURO 2012 the last month preliminary round, beating Israel 7-3, the Republic of Ireland 5-0 and Andorra 7-3 in Dublin. Sæther employed an innovative approach to man tactic, but as he prepares for a much tougher job qualification round - starting on Thursday against bronze medalists for the Czech Republic 2010, hosts of Romania and Slovakia - the coach believes that progress is to its players.
"The system can take some credit, but most of the success was founded in the way the boys played," said Sæther, a long-time sportswriter for the newspaper Dagbladet. "It was almost unbelievable how the hand played for your top-level during games. I was really impressed with how focus and dedicated that were ".
However, strategy of Sæther certainly gave Norway a border, making it as difficult to break your football squad has been lately. "Andorra, for example, had problems dealing when they had the ball," he said. "They had to use his goalkeeper like field player when in possession, which was an advantage for us. For example, goalkeeper Magnar Nordtun scored our goal last against Andorra on an open network. "
Nordtun, once a soccer player with Viking FK, proved to be a key player together with Captain Thomas Sæther – not related with coach-fixing team with their fight and distribution. The Joker in the package is Valøy of Cato, who hasn't played in the first two games last month, but then weighed in with a hat-trick against Andorra. "Valøy is extremely fast and has an eye for goal," said coach. "Hat-trick proved that we chose the right squad that time".
This month's selection includes six players of Champions Championship KFUM Oslo, who made his debut in UEFA Futsal Cup this season and went undefeated in goal difference behind RKM Zelezarec Skopje. Avoiding defeat will be far from easy in Romania, though.
"Our results so far show that we are at a high European level, but we know that these games will be difficult," said Sæther. "Romania has played 22 matches last year and are more experienced than us, the Czechs took bronze at the last EURO, while Slovakia had some impressive results this year. Our goal is to have some points and testing our system against some of the best teams of futsal in Europe ".
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