Super League: Magnus Grodem did not imagine this destiny in Yverdon

ThoseA real false departure –By joining Yverdon, Magnus Grodem did not imagine that

The 26-year-old Norwegian joined the North Vaudois in winter 2024. Wounded on the first day, he tamed the city before the municipal stadium.

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Four hundred two days have passed between his recruitment and the moment when he was finally able to set foot in the official match. Magnus Grodem was far from imagining the tortuous path that was waiting for him before he could show his qualities in Super League. Between January 2024 and May 2025, he played only seventy in the league.

Everything started again in February 2025 against Zurich. “I now feel like a player like any other, admitted the Norwegian in the process with a smile. This is the first time that I have felt like this since I arrived in Yverdon. ” You have to understand it. He had chosen to drastically change his air, leaving his Molde club to reach the North Vaudois whom he knew nothing.

“When the members of the club called me, I was not extremely enthusiastic because I had never heard of him,” he admits. Then the attacking midfielder discussed with the president and the director. He inquired with Niklas Gunnarsson, who was evolving in YS, then said he was why not.

The arrival in Yverdon

The 25 -year -old footballer joined his new lands instead of the training camp planned with his former team. First training, first hiccup: he seriously injured his knee after only twenty minutes alongside his new teammates. “I did not know anyone apart from my Norwegian friends. I knew I was going to spend four months without being able to know the team, it was a really difficult start. ”

Especially since the club had not yet announced its arrival. The supporters knew nothing about this recruit. Difficult to testify to the support of a player who does not exist. The context did not frankly allow him to establish links with his teammates. He followed his physiotherapy alternating with the first team. “When she trained, I had to be at home. When the players returned home, I had to come. ”

What helped him were knowing that he was going to come back the following summer. Except that Rebelote, the player is injured in the second friendly match of his team.

Still for the benefit of his contract binding him to the club until 2026, there is no question of outsing it. The context is nonetheless complicated for the recruit. “Mentally, it was extremely difficult to prepare to iron by the same stages,” blows the interested party, who then left in his native country. He spent two weeks with his family before opting for an operation in Switzerland. To prepare his return, the real one.

Visits that make you forget the injury

His girlfriend joined him. Magnus Grodem also received the visits from his parents and friends, too happy to flee the Norwegian was. The player was just as happy to forget his unlucky by playing the tourist guides. A smile takes shape on his lips when he talks about the coffees caught in the sun. He sees in Yverdon-les-Bains a quiet city like his city in Norway. A community on a human scale in which everyone knows each other, and everyone loves sport.

The player started French lessons. He took advantage of his days off to take the wheel and visit the rest of Europe: Geneva, Annecy, Lyon and Milan. “It’s so easy to go everywhere from Switzerland,” he appreciates. He recognizes that it was also a way of changing his ideas, he whose identity has always been that of a footballer.

He denies having to prove his talent to anyone. His trainer, Paolo Tramezzani, and his leaders count on him to slip good balls to the attackers. “I know they appreciate me as a player. For me, it is only a question of confidence and to accumulate minutes of play. ”

Impatience is manifest. “After such a year, you just want to play football,” he said, being measured. I tell myself every day that it is better to wait a week more to be 100% than to resume the risk of being far for four months. ” He has been feeling in shape for several months. And that the members of the club also see it: Magnus Grodem can begin to write its North Vaudoise history.

Because its qualities in the field are what I liked at first Yverdon Sport. His 27 goals in 112 appearances in the Norwegian first division made him an offensive player. He is satisfied with what he sees. “The quality of the players is better than in Norway, but the game is more individual,” he added, specifying that he had prepared for it. It’s his job, it’s his daily life.

The taste of rivalry in Super League

Far from being immigrants like the others, athletes generally experience a relatively similar reality from one country to another. The training centers prove to be relatively similar, with the exception of the colors and the logos there. Some teammates become friends, the team sometimes offers town outings. Everything is part of this football bubble in which club members bathe.

Daily revolves mainly around training, then matches. Each weekend his opponent to beat. “The only thing that differs is that you do not have your family or your loved ones within reach,” he notes.

He still keeps a link with his native country, following the championship assiduously to find out where his heart teams and friends are. He also likes the Premier League very much.

And the Super League In which he evolves, then? “I watch the videos to prepare the matches and I am the results,” he replied. He quickly seized the rivalry that animates the French clubs, and does not fail to note thatYverdon finished in front of Lausanne during the previous exercise.

The universality of football: you can come from anywhere in the world, and you will instantly understand what the teams are against which it takes this start of passion in addition. Magnus Grodem knows the importance of wetting the jersey. And it is more impatient than anyone to find a regular place in the field.

Rebecca Garcia is a journalist at the Tamedia sports section. Holder of a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Neuchâtel, she is particularly interested in alpine skiing, trail running and the sports economy.More info

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