The captain: The team’s attitude has been phenomenal
With his new contract with the club, AB captain Silas Trier Madsen is looking forward to new goals and believes the team has moved closer together. With a new contract in hand until the summer of 2025, AB captain Silas Trier Madsen can now fully concentrate on his role as one of the leaders of a team that has only improved as the fall season has progressed. According to Madsen, the AB team pulled together after a difficult start to the season, and the new owners at the club reinforce his belief that he and the rest of the players can develop even further. In this interview, Silas Trier Madsen also looks back on a season that began with one point in the first three games in the 2nd division before the calendar hit the fall months. Once that happened, the team didn’t look back and finished the fall season with six wins in a row and 8 wins in the last 10 games. “The attitude has been phenomenal in an insane amount of games. We’ve come from behind in a lot of them and turn them into a win. It’s just a belief in things,” says Silas Trier Madsen and talks about the feeling he has about the team’s mental strength. “You can clearly feel in adversity if the team has a sense that we are ‘damn’ good, and we are. Something has really happened mentally with the team. We are a group that really likes each other, but we also believe in each other’s abilities, and that’s why we are where we are for the winter break.” On Tuesday, AB announced that the contract with Silas Trier Madsen had been extended so that it now expires in the summer of 2025. It was important for the club and the captain to get the deal in place so that we can look forward. Not least with the new owners of AB, with whom Silas Trier Madsen spoke several times before the new contract was signed. “I’ve had some good conversations with the new owners about their plans. I’ve also asked some questions, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised. They have big ambitions and they are people who have had football in their hands. It’s important that they have experience from the football world. It’s also positive that they have extended with the coaches and want to work with the squad we already have,” emphasizes Silas Trier Madsen. Throughout his career, leadership has come naturally to AB’s captain, who also captained the club’s U-15 and U-17 teams. This even happened with current head coach Patrick Braune coaching the youth teams that Trier Madsen captained. “The club has always trusted me, and I’ve developed some really good relationships with the club. Both with the fans and with my teammates.” Trier Madsen uses his leadership as captain both on and off the pitch. “I have to try to lift people up if they’re having a bad day. I’ve worked on that over the years, because I know it’s one of the things that allows us to get a lot of points. That together we lift the team through difficult periods. Off the pitch, I also think about that.” Silas Trier Madsen is currently on winter break from football, which starts again after the New Year. The build-up to the all-important spring season begins on January 5, and it’s something the captain is really looking forward to based on the great fall season and the new ownership, which he has put a lot of thought into. “I’m very excited about it. I’m excited about it, and when you see that the coaches and some players are being extended, it seems like there’s a belief in this team. When more funds are added, you get a belief as a player that you can move forward. That we can develop even more. So there is a joy. I’m excited and optimistic.”
