The Man Behind Bodø/Glimt's Champions League Miracle | Bjørn Mannsverk (E407)

Now you're a former F-16 fighter pilot, you've never played football, you've got no interest in the sport, and yet the club that you work with have just beaten Manchester City, Atletico Madrid, then into Milan in the Champions League. Tell us, how does that happen? Bjorn, welcome to High Performance. Thank you very much. Now you're a former F-16 fighter pilot, you've never played football, you've got no interest in the sport, and yet the club that you work with have just beaten Manchester City, Atletico Madrid, then into Milan in the Champions League.

Tell us, how does that happen? How does that happen? Now, um, I think we have to go back to my my background as a fighter pilot. Uh, and to keep it short, uh um we did an experiment in 2009, 2010 uh uh that was mental training. We didn't really know what it was, but we we we we just was looking for something we could train.

outside the the normal fighter pilot uh stuff. And it was um it was quite a new method in a way uh and it was well received by the pilots, uh, by other personnel at the squadron and the effect was uh also uh very good. And then some years later, in 2016, when Buriglint were supposed to celebrate their 100th anniversary, and it was a crash and burn. So even though they they believed that they had the skills to remain at the top level, they they didn't manage and they realized that this this is caused to a collective mental collapse. And they also realized that they didn't have any way of of training within the mental aspect.

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