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The narrative highlights how Ljungberg reconnected with the sport after retirement, sought guidance from Arsène Wenger and Sweden teammates, and embraced coaching duties in London Colney. It also describes early career influences from Halmstads Boldklub and his development into a future leadership figure, including efforts to communicate better through learning Spanish.","10/16/2019 Freddie Ljungberg: the making of a model coach – The Athletic  \nFreddie Ljungberg: the making of a model coach  \nBy James McNicholas, Amy Lawrence and David Ornstein (/author/james-mcnicholas-amy-lawrence-and-david-ornstein/) 5h  \nago  22   \nFreddie Ljungberg didn’t always dream of being a coach.“No it wasn’t my plan,” he has said.  \n“I liked my life!”  \nSteve Zakuani, who played alongside Ljungberg for Major League Soccer’s Seattle Sounders, agrees.“If someone had said to me in 2009 or 2010, ‘What’s Freddie going to be doing in a few years?’ I wouldn’t have said ‘coach’. I would have said maybe open a restaurant, or continue modelling.”  \n[https://theathletic.com/1289739/2019/10/16/freddie-ljungberg-the-making-of-a-model-coach/ 1/22](https://theathletic.com/1289739/2019/10/16/freddie-ljungberg-the-making-of-a-model-coach/ 1/22)  \n10/16/2019 Freddie Ljungberg: the making of a model coach – The Athletic  \nA man with interests as diverse as Ljungberg was not an obvious candidate to stay in the game. It’s not something he needed to do either.  \n“I think football has gone into a new era,” his former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger tells The Athletic.“When players finish their careers now they are rich enough and famous enough, they are not really in need to do any other job. That’s why I’m very proud when they do, because they can carry the values that are important for the club for future generations.”  \nThat’s precisely what Ljungberg is now doing. Arsenal fans who remember the boy with the hairstyle as spiky and colourful as his personality are growing accustomed to the sight of him on the sidelines at training sessions and games: same chiselled features, same steely focus, new sense of purpose.  \nLjungberg is embracing his new career as a coach. This is the story of how he has taken the likes of Joe Willock and Bukayo Saka under his wing; how he has steadily made himself an invaluable presence at London Colney—how he’s even learning Spanish to help him  \ncommunicate better with Unai Emery and his staff.  \nIt’s a considerable turnaround that a player once ambivalent about staying in the game is now being spoken of as a future Arsenal manager.  \nLjungberg revealed what led him back to football in an interview with the Sounders’ YouTube channel earlier this year.“When you retire, you dream—or at least I did. ‘Oh, I can do whatever I want, no one can tell me when I have to wake up, I don’t have to run when I don’t want to run…’ All that stuff. You’re dreaming of that for like 20 years. And then when it happens, and you have nothing to do for a year or two, you’re like, ‘What’s the point?’ I can only play so much golf, and I can only sit at home for so long…that’s boring!”  \nIt was then that Ljungberg consulted the man who helped to shape his playing career,  \nWenger, on what might come next.  \n“I asked some people from my national team (Sweden) and I asked Arsene, ‘What do you think about me coaching? Do you think it’sjust a stupid idea?’ And they were like, ‘No, we think you could be really good at it, so we would like you to do it.’ So I was like, ‘OK. I’ll give it a shot.’”  \nAs Arsenal fans will know better than most, when Ljungberg shoots, he usually scores.  \n[https://theathletic.com/1289739/2019/10/16/freddie-ljungberg-the-making-of-a-model-coach/ 2/22](https://theathletic.com/1289739/2019/10/16/freddie-ljungberg-the-making-of-a-model-coach/ 2/22)  \nWhen Ljungberg embarked on his coaching badges, the course required him to spend a few days working with young players at a club of his choice. Ljungberg opted for Halmstads Boldklub, the Swedish team where his career began.  \nNicklas Gudmundsson was a team-mate ofLjungberg’s when he first appeared in the firstteam dressing room at HBK and remembers a boy who kept quiet except for when he was on the pitch. 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