Hundv?g FC in Dunfermline
Saturday, 24th Mar 2012Home support boosted by Norwegian visitors
Twenty two players and staff from Hundv?g FC in Stavanger have been training in Dunfermline this week. Tor Magne Madsen has brought his amateur team for their pre season training in Fife.
They have been based in the City Hotel and the first of their three daily training sessions involved a run around the Town Centre at 7.00am in the morning. Then after breakfast a training session on the grass at Pitreavie at 10.00am followed by a second after lunch at 2.00pm.
Goalie Coach Brian Potter welcomes the visitors
The Fourth Division side will return to Norway on a flight from Aberdeen on Sunday and go straight into a Winter Cup tie kicking off at 6 o'clock that evening. Before that the players and squad will take in Dunfermline's match against St Mirren followed by a meal at the Stadium.
Hundvag's new Head Coach is the Viking Stavanger legend with more than 400 appearances for the Club - Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim. The coaching staff and players said they had been made to feel very welcome in Dunfermline and felt it was important to train on grass since many of their opponents play on grass. Hundvag themselves play on an artificial surface.
The contact with Dunfermline was originally established through the Norwegian club's supremo Audan Johannessen whose father was stationed in Shetland and Dunfermline during the Second World War. He and two of his coaches were over in October to see the coaching at Dunfermline. He also alerted Jim Leishman to sign Vetle Andersen.
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