Norwich City’s new assistant head coach Glen Riddersholm believes joining the Canaries’ Championship crusade has helped him get the buzz back for the game.

The 52-year-old was unveiled last week as the number two to Johannes Hoff Thorup at Carrow Road for the latest chapter in a career which includes a league title in Denmark with FC Midtjylland, and later coaching stints in Belgium and Sweden.

Riddersholm had been out of the game since leaving Swedish top flight side IFK Norrköping last November, after a testing spell that saw him win 19 of his 49 games in charge.

“It's not because all my time in Norrköping was bad, and when I look back, I did my due diligence, learned a lot and gained important experience, but you just can't prepare for everything,” he said. “I have tried many things in my life. Norrköping became sportingly different.

"My wife and I thrived off the field, but unfortunately the task never turned out to be what I had hoped and believed in, and for the first time in my coaching life I had a short period when I was not happy when I went to work.

“It's not because I'm not prepared for adversity, because I've tried many things. But culture, values ​​and objectives should not only be something you find on paper.

"They must be created and run from above and trickle down through the organization and must be run and lived by everyone. I would like to be part of a project which has to be built up by many people who are together for one goal.

“I come from FC Midtjylland, and when you have been in a place with so many talented people that (experience) becomes my benchmark for how to cultivate community and build something together with passionate people.”

Thorup has forged a reputation for exciting, proactive football harnessing young homegrown developed talent.

Riddersholm worked with the Danish Under-17s earlier in his career, and speaking to sports magazine Tipsbladet, echoed Thorup’s sentiments as they look to build strong foundations at Carrow Road around a core of academy players.

“Football and the world we live in are changing, and we see short-term coaching dismissals everywhere,” he said. “I reflected a lot on how I get a (new) job where I meet passionate people and where people 'walk the talk' and are completely aligned. It is extremely rare to find that. I have doubted whether it even exists any more.

“I wanted to find a place where you get the ‘time’ and the opportunity to go in-depth, where you can follow the process and have a management that is calm and co-ordinated and does not get carried away by an atmosphere.

"I have turned down several jobs that might be interesting because I could feel that it would be too short-term.

“I have maybe 10 to 12 years left at the top level as a coach, so I have to live out the dream to the maximum and am very aware that there are few types of projects that live up to my dreams and ambitions.”