Hellberg has eventual ambitions of playing the sort of attacking style that he became known for at his previous club Hammarby in his native Sweden.
“I want to play aggressive, high-defending football. I want to win the ball back as quickly as possible if we don’t have it,” he said.
“I want to control the ball by keeping it. It has to be a purpose of taking the ball forward.
“We talk a lot about staccato from Italian music like David [Selini, assistant head coach] has [taught] me.
“Sometimes playing slow, but then you get that feeling of now it goes very quick, I love that.”
At 37, Hellberg is the joint second-youngest manager in the Championship alongside new Swansea head coach Vitor Matos and behind only West Brom’s 34-year-old boss Ryan Mason.
It is a sizeable leap from Swedish football to being dropped into a Championship promotion bid, a third of the way into the season, but Hellberg believes that his 14 years of coaching experience put him in a good position to hit the ground running in England.
He also learned the ropes from father Stefan, who has been a coach for 25 years in Sweden.
“It’s a dream to coach in England. I am ready to take the step,” he said.
“As a coach, sometimes you bring football home. You work all of the time. It was good for me to grow up with a father that loved football, that worked like that.
“I was clear that I wanted [that] and worked very hard.”
