Irish coach: I was told not to say anything about my previous job!

According to Eviralnews, with the start of the European League of Nations group stage competitions during the two-week closure of the club leagues, the attention of the media and football fans in the green continent has been focused on the national game. Meanwhile, one person has been in the focus of attention of the English media; Heimer Hallgrimsson, head coach of the Irish national team. The 57-year-old is well-known to Englishmen for humiliating the Three Lions by knocking them out of Euro 2016 as head coach of Iceland's national football team. Now he has a chance to face the British again, this time as the head coach of the Irish national team. What is going to happen on Saturday night in the framework of Group F games of the European League of Nations.

On the eve of this game, the Icelandic head coach of the Irish national team revealed a fact that put him under the microscope even more. He revealed that before entering the world of football, he was engaged in a profession that he was advised to hide from others.

Hallgrimson said about this: When I went to England to apply for my professional coaching certificate, they told me “don't tell anyone that you are a dentist!”. However, I never thought that having an (irrelevant) education would hurt you. I am proud to be a dentist.

Hallgrimson's career not only did not cause his work class to decline as a football coach, contrary to what the English tried to instill in him, but because of an incident, he was also admired by the people of the football world. In the summer of the same year his side eliminated England in the Round of 16 at Euro 2016, a player's tooth was knocked out during a women's soccer match in Iceland. Ironically, Hallgrimsson, who was present at the scene, immediately went to the player's aid and put his tooth back in place, and shortly afterwards he was fully treated in a clinic.

Starting his career as the only head coach of the Iceland national team (after the departure of Lars Lagerback from Iceland's coaching staff), Hallgrimsson gave up dentistry altogether, although his experience as a dentist helped him a lot to succeed in his new career.

The head coach of the Irish national team continued: “Working as a dentist really helped me. In that job, you always work face-to-face with your audience. Some people are really afraid of the dentist. Therefore, you have to find a suitable way to talk to each of your customers. Sometimes you have to calm down one person, joke and laugh with another, and be serious and firm with the third. In any case, you have to adapt to the situation very quickly. It is exactly the same with footballers.

Hallgrimsson was appointed as the head coach of the Irish national team in July this year, after the team had been without a coach for 231 days.

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