Tottenham Hotspur head coach Robert Vilahamn has prolonged his contract with the membership following historic success final season.
The 41-year-old Swede landed the function in July 2023, making the swap from BK Hacken, and shortly made an impression together with his attacking type of play within the Ladies’s Tremendous League.
The brand new deal will now see him stay at Spurs till the summer season of 2027.
Throughout the first half of 2023/24, Vilahamn guided his workforce to an eight-game unbeaten run in all competitions, earlier than ending the season with a high six WSL end for simply the second time.
Nonetheless, most notably he helped to create historical past for Spurs within the Ladies’s FA Cup. The membership reached the ultimate for the primary time after overcoming Sheffield United, Charlton Athletic, Manchester Metropolis and Leicester Metropolis within the earlier rounds.
Though they ended up dropping 4-0 to Manchester United, the event introduced collectively over 76,000 supporters to Wembley Stadium in Could.
Talking in an unique interview to Spurs, Vilahamn stated he intends to “hold constructing” on what the membership achieved final time period.
“The principle factor if you wish to attain the Champions League and win the titles, you want time,” he stated. “We’re going to ensure that we do it our approach, develop gamers, and create a tremendous atmosphere so we might be on high for a very long time.
“The membership has given me time to create this, they usually wish to do the true factor hee. The expertise on this group is already there, and we have to discover the fitting degree and develop to take it up a step.”
He went on to strengthen the significance of creating the squad that already exists, whereas including new gamers to the combination.
“The massive plans for this yr is to start out on a better degree than final yr,” defined Vilahamn. “As a substitute of making an attempt to purchase eight, or 9 new gamers, we want to ensure we add a couple of new gamers to this group as I believe you want that yearly.
“The principle factor is to take this workforce, the ways, the best way we converse and deal with one another to the subsequent degree – push one another and have a greater understanding of the aim mannequin. We’re going to hold constructing on what we did final yr.”
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