Telegraph Sport spent an afternoon at Middlesbrough’s training ground to find out the secrets of their Premier League charge

✍🏻Beating Swansea to Hellberg appointment
📐Mathematical approach to coaching
🔝 "The best player in the Championship"

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/03/03/secrets-middlesbrough-charge-premier-league/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_tw_post

#Boro | #UTB

🚨 🇸🇪 Middlesbrough boss Kim Hellberg, ahead of tonight’s table-topping clash with Coventry:

🗣️ “(Starting out) I was in the lowest division in Sweden. I was working as a kindergarten teacher and training with the players in the evening trying to get them fit. 
🗣️ “It’s been a long journey — 15 years — but I had no playing background. I dreamed of being a player in the Champions League but knew I wasn't good enough. So it was all about trying to make a living being a football coach.
🗣️ “I’ve lived every step of it but I also doubted myself a lot of times on my journey … whether if it was worth being away from family, not going on holiday, having no time off…
🗣️ “There’s a lot of people that do that (at lower levels) and hopefully I can inspire more people … that you don’t have to have a playing background to become a manager — I’m proud of myself & my journey.” #UTB

Big result for #Middlesbrough tonight. Coventry took the lead, but lost 2-1 to a Norwich team which started the night 1 point above the relegation places.

Let's hope this knocks their confidence and sends them into a slump which could allow #Boro to overtake them.

#EFL #UTB