Since finishing his senior year at Notre Dame University, midfielder Michael Thomas will be hoping that a trial with Halmstad BK in Sweden's top league, the Allsvenskan, will result in a contract offer.

NFN's Sweden correspondent Nic Townsend has agreed to let us use articles from his excellent Doing Goals blog. Here's the first, a roundup of Gameweek six:

Helsingborg and Malmö remain undefeated after Gameweek Six, and occupy first and second respectively, thus adding a bit of extra spice to their Skåne derby on Sunday.

Michael Thomas debuted in a new position for his new team, Ljungskile while Alejandro Bedoya and Ryan Miller sat out the restart of the Allsvenskan.

The New York Red Bulls' roster continues to churn ahead of the upcoming MLS season, despite not having a head coach in place with little more than a week to go until the 2010 MLS SuperDraft. The latest player to depart from the underachieving club is Venezuelan midfielder Jorge Rojas, who has signed a one-year contract with Deportiva Tachira in his home country.

AIK, an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben is a Swedish football club based at the Råsunda stadium in Solna, a municipality in Stockholm County bordering to Stockholm city centre. The club was formed in 1891 in central Stockholm. Its football department was formed in 1896. AIK are the defending champions of the Swedish Allsvenskan and hold the [.

Ryan Miller and Alejandro Bedoya will start, while Michael Thomas may make his first-team debut in the Allsvenskan's second week.

The opening round of Allsvenskan featured a massive four 0-0 draws, which could be taken as a defensive masterclass but NFN prefers to see as a festival of attacking incompetence. Aftonbladet tried to inject some kind of drama into proceedings by leading with 'GAIS penalty was a wrong decision', an unpatriotic assault on under-fire FIFA ref Martin Hansson.

Agon Mehmeti set Malmö on the way to a convincing win over Örebro tonight with two first half goals. The excitement surrounding Malmö FF's centenary, and the performance they put in, were welcome distractions from the remainder of an Allsvenskan round that had failed to set the pulse racing.

Aftonbladet writer Simon Bank was reduced to quoting Jock Stein after Djurgården's fan-free loss at home to Helsingborg.

Birgit Prinz- She is one of Germany's best known female football players. She has won the World Cup twice in 2003 and 2007. She also won the UEFA Women's Championship five times. Prinz is the all-time leading scorer at World Cups with 14 goals as well as all-time leading scorer at Olympic Games with 10 goals.

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Did you know...Rami Shaaban of Hammarby was an explosives expertTerry Boss of the Seattle Sounders is the younger brother of Kevin Boss who won the Super Bowl with the New York Giants in 2008.David Beckham of Los Angeles Galaxy has asthma.Mia Hamm's real name is Mariel.France's Zinedine Zidaine has a son named Enzo who has recently been called up to Spain U-15 was named after Uruguayan player

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Ryan Miller featured for Halmstad and Alejandro Bedoya for Orebro in the Allsvenskan while Nick Noble got the start in the Swedish second division's first weekend.

Watch a clip of AIK versus Barcelona in the 1999 Champions League. Despite being one of the most winning teams in Allsvenskan, this was the Swedish teams last appearance in the Champions League's group stages.

Manchester United's Sammy McIlroy, Willie Morgan, Stuart Pearson, Gerry Daly and Lou Macari like to play cowboys as seen at this 1974 party.After leaving Manchester United, Sammy McIlroy played for other teams such as Manchester City, Stoke City, and Örgryte IS. Upon retiring, the Northern Irishmen started a rather lengthy managing career.

IFK Göteborg is a Swedish professional football club based in Gothenburg. The club can be referred to as IFK, although this can be confusing as there are many other clubs in Sweden who use the abbreviation as part of their name. The club is more usually known in Sweden as "Blåvitt" (Blue-White), in reference to [.

Djurgårdens IF Fotboll, commonly known as Djurgarden, is a Swedish football club based at Stadion in Östermalm. They are currently playing in the highest Swedish league, Allsvenskan. Formed in 1891, the club has 11 national championship titles and 4 national cup titles. Dominating Swedish football in the first half of the 2000s, Djurgårdens finished second in 2001, [.

Alejandro Bedoya and Orebro began their 2010 Allsvenskan in style while Ryan Miller and Halmstads slugged out a scoreless draw against Trelleborgs.

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Will half the matches finish goalless again? Will anyone be allowed to witness Djurgården's match against Helsingborg? Is Tobias Grahn bigger than God? The Allsvenskan preview asks all these questions and answers none, as we look forward to the second round of matches.

Saturday

Brommapojkarna v AIK

Brommapojkarna will be without their slightly dim yellow card collector of a goalkeeper, Kristoffer Nordfeldt, who booted the ball away after being shown a yellow card for handling outside the area against Helsingborg last week.

We are always looking for new writers, particularly those focusing on Swedish and Danish football. If you fancy the job, get in touch.

Swedish 'bad boy' Tobias Grahn caused a moderate amount of tutting on his return to Allsvenskan today, during which he helped Mjallby to a scoreless draw at AIK.

There has been an awful lot of moaning and bitching about the state of Allsvenskan pitches recently, so much so that we here at NFN were almost embarrassed to draw your attention to Kalmar v Elfsborg yesterday.

"We haven't played on grass yet, it's more like a cow's field," said Elfsborg's Englishman James Keene before the game.

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Ryan Miller and Alejandro Bedoya both went the distance for their clubs, while Johann Smith made his debut as a late sub in the Allsvenskan's third week.

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