Andrine Hegerberg, Markus Neby | Markus Neby wants to take the relationship further: – It is the long-term dream

(Nettavisen): In 2019, radio profile and presenter Markus Neby (33) confirmed that he had found happiness with footballer Andrine Hegerberg (30).

Due to the latter’s career, they have had a long-distance relationship for much of that time, as Hegerberg has played for clubs in Italy and Sweden. Last year, however, she was able to turn her face back home, when she started playing for Brann.

When Nettavisen meets Neby during the press conference for the NRK program “Easter Crime Games”, he can reveal that he and Hegerberg envision becoming cohabitants in the near future.

After several years as lovers, he believes it is time for them to take that step.

Must test it out

Neby is probably very happy to have his girlfriend back on Norwegian soil, but when asked what the next step in the relationship is, he can say that they will naturally move in together.

– The next step now is for us to live together, because she plays football around the world. Now she is in Bergen, he tells Nettavisen.

The couple have had a long-distance relationship for several years, and at one point they have had to fly across national borders to be with each other.

They now want to avoid that, and therefore cohabitation is the big dream for the couple:

– We have to test living together over time without having to fly every time we have to see each other. That is the long-term dream.

However, the 33-year-old presenter is not sure when they can take the next step and fulfill their cohabitation dream. It depends on where in the country Hegerberg plays football:

– It is difficult to predict that football world, but I have to answer as a footballer and say that we take it one day at a time.

Received advice from Thomas Alsgaard

Although Neby can imagine them moving in together eventually, he says that distance works well for the couple. He also admits that he has picked up love tips from the well-known cross-country runner Thomas Alsgaard (52).

– Thomas Alsgaard spoke in “Kåss til kvelds” about how distance is actually a good tool in a relationship. I support that, even though I never thought I would make use of perspectives on love relationships from that man when I saw him pass Jørgen Brink in the World Cup 2003. An elk on the track, a god of love outside, says Neby to Nettavisen.

During the years of long-distance relationships, however, he has found the recipe for how to succeed:

– I think the most important thing is that we each have our own lives with each of our things. It would have been more regrettable if one of them was “satisfied” while the other just waited and had no interests of their own. Perhaps this applies to relationships that are not distance as well, he says.

Was forced by the corona crisis

Although the couple will eventually move in together, cohabitation is not completely unknown to them.

Like many other loving couples, the corona crisis presented an unexpected challenge for Neby and Hegerberg, and they ended up moving in together – somewhat involuntarily.

At the time, Hegerberg played for the football club AS Roma, and lived in the Italian metropolis. But since she was corona-proof in Norway, she and Neby were “forced” to live together.

– It’s a little scary, because we’re probably still in a kind of new-in-love mode, Neby said when the couple guested on “Senkveld” in 2020.

The relationship was relatively fresh when they became cohabitants during the corona, and Neby did not hide that he was afraid that it would put a damper on the couple’s relationship.

– That distance means that the new love may last a little longer, and now it passes more quickly, probably since we are so close to each other, he expressed in the TV 2 programme.

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However, Hegerberg thought that the unexpected cohabitation was nice, and it meant that she got to do everyday things with Neby that they had not previously had the opportunity to do:

– For my part, it’s wonderful. Getting to be with Markus for so long and getting to do a lot we haven’t done before. Among other things, eating breakfast together. We had never done that, said Hegerberg.