World star Truls Möregårdh has been in a conflict with the Swedish Table Tennis Association about who will coach him during competitions.
He tells Sydsvenskan that he will get to bring his brother Malte Möregårdh as trainer and match coach during the World Championship in Doha, Qatar, later in May.
It's supposed to be like that. We're ready to do something cool and it's good that it's solved this time, says Truls Möregårdh to the newspaper.
However, it's not yet clear with the solution, according to the Swedish Table Tennis Association's sports manager Daniel Ellermann.
"Positive"
The World Championship is not a hundred percent clear that he (Malte Möregårdh) can be there. It also depends on the international association, among other things, that we can add a coach so late.
But both parties want him to be able to be there. That's maybe what he expresses in the article. That we are positive.
The conflict became known at the end of February. The main issue has been – according to the association - that the double Olympic silver medalist wants a different solution on the coaching side also at tournaments that are designated as national team competitions.
He has expressed that to us, that it's extremely important for him, and then we have to try to investigate and see how it can be solved in some way, said general secretary Thomas Buza to TT in mid-April.
Daniel Ellermann is not himself part of the working group that holds discussions with the Möregårdh family, but says that the talks are going in a positive direction.
"Not be current"
Otherwise, it wouldn't be current that Malte can coach at a World Championship, of course. So we see very positively on finding a solution that is also long-term. That Malte can follow and coach Truls at all the competitions he wants to have Malte at.
Peter Blomqvist is the acting national team captain since Tobias Bergman left the post at the beginning of March.
The World Championship takes place from 17 to 25 May.
