Thanks Da Li.
I've tried using Jtag connector, and it worked fine.
The issue was, that firmware on OpenSDA mcu was corrupt. I erased it with j-link commander using an external segger probe.
Next, I flashed j-link firmware to the OpenSDA mcu on the board with external j-link segger probe using j-link commander, and ran it as a j-link emulator (or something along these lines. I'm fairly new to developing for mcu's).
I got the firmware from here
https://www.segger.com/downloads/jlink under "Generic Firmwares".
Now it's recognized by MCUXpresso as a j-link debug probe, and allows debugging.
Best regards.