Just days after losing the Olympic final to Mexico, Brazil are back in action in a friendly
versus Sweden. The match was especially arranged to celebrate Brazil's 5-2 win against the home
nation in the final of the World Cup in 1958. The game will be the last in Rasunda stadium before
it is demolished and completely rebuilt.
Sweden Lineup (4-2-3-1): Andreas Isaakson; Martin Olsson, Jonas Olsson, Olaf Mellberg, Andreas
Granqvist; Anders Svensson, Kim Kallstrom; Emir Bajrami, Ola Toivonen, Sebastian Larsson; Zlatan
Ibrahimovic
France Lineup (4-2-3-1): Hugo Lloris; Gael Clichy, Adil Rami, Philippe Mexes, Mathieu Debuchy;
Yann M'Vila, Alou Diarra; Franck Ribery, Hatem Ben Arfa, Samir Nasri; Karim Benzema
Stadium: Olympic Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine
Television Broadcast Information: Saturday, June 19th, 2:45 p.
OTP gives you the lowdown on all the Euro 2012 teams. 10 word description: Unfancied best
runners-up in decent form. Need 'good' Zlatan. Coach: Erik Hamren The 54-year-old is well known in
Scandinavian football having managed in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Since taking over from Lars
Lagerback in 2009, he's given a very good account [.
Hamren has called up the troops for action and its time for a little analysis of what is coming
our way on the 7th of October. Here is the full squad:
Andreas Isaksson, Johan Wiland
Mikael Lustig, Pierre Bengtsson, Andreas Granqvist, Daniel Majstorovic, Olof Mellberg, Jonas
Olsson, Martin Olsson
Emir Bajrami, Christian Wilhelmsson, Rasmus Elm, Johan Elmander, Alexander Gerndt, Samuel
Holmen, Tobias Hysen, Kim Källström, Sebastian Larsson, Anders Svensson, Ola Toivonen, Pontus
Wernbloom, Zlatan Ibrahimovic
So these are the guys who are going to go toe to toe with the Finns.
O técnico da Suécia, Erik Hamren, anunciou a volta de Zlatan Ibrahimovic para a seleção no
amistoso diante da Escócia, na próxima semana. O atacante do Barcelona deixou a equipe nacional
no ano passado, após a Suécia não conquistar a classificação para a Copa do Mundo.
Ich werde älter und älter. Bei der WM 2014 bin ich doch erst 37, das ist kein Problem. Ravelli
sollte Angst haben.
Anders Svensson, schwedischer Natioanalspieler, will trotz seiner 35 Jahre und des vorzeitigen
Aus bei der EM2012 noch nicht zurücktreten und Schwedens Rekordnationalspieler Thomas Ravelli mit
den Länderspielen noch einholen.
Ich werde älter und älter. Bei der WM 2014 bin ich doch erst 37, das ist kein Problem. Ravelli
sollte Angst haben.
Anders Svensson, schwedischer Natioanalspieler, will trotz seiner 35 Jahre und des vorzeitigen
Aus bei der EM2012 noch nicht zurücktreten und Schwedens Rekordnationalspieler Thomas Ravelli mit
den Länderspielen noch einholen.
During Sweden's training session yesterday, Daniel Majstorovic (who had only just returned to
the fold after fracturing a cheekbone) suffered an injury that has prematurely ended his season
and sadly also ended his hopes of playing at Euro 2012 this summer in fact, the 34-year old Celtic
centre-half has it all on to be fit and ready for the start of next season.
During Sweden's training session yesterday, Daniel Majstorovic (who had only just returned to
the fold after fracturing a cheekbone) suffered an injury that has prematurely ended his season
and sadly also ended his hopes of playing at Euro 2012 this summer in fact, the 34-year old Celtic
centre-half has it all on to be fit and ready for the start of next season.
As we have already established, being a teammate of Zlatan Ibrahimovic's can be very painful no
matter if it's club or country. But even when Zlatan isn't actively trying to thwack his teammates,
he still does. In fact, he seems to be even more dangerous that way.
During a Sweden training session ahead of their friendly against Croatia, Zlatan made easy work
of midfielder Anders Svensson with a shoulder check, sending Svensson tumbling to the ground and
right onto Celtic defender Daniel Majstorovic's leg.
I have the official starting eleven for Sweden for this evening's away game in Helsinki with the
official starting time being 18:15 (Central European Time).
Sweden will appear in the following order:
Isaksson
Lustig, Majstorovic, Mellberg, Olsson
Elm, Källström
Larsson, Elmander, Wilhelmsson
Ibrahimovic
It's the same basic 4-2-3-1 that we have been driving with the entirety of the 2012
campaign.
We won and what a way to win at that! Tobias Hysen, son of Sweden legend Glenn Hysen, beat the
offside trap (by millimeters) late in stoppage time and with a light flick of the ball from Anders
Svensson's genial pass gave us the victory. To be fair to the Ukraine team though they put up a
masterful fight and that the referee didn't call offside on that final play must be winners
luck.
Sorry that I'm a bit late for all these sort of lists, but seeing as I've only just joined the
blog and these are always fun, let's have a look at some of Sweden's most memorable goals from the
last decade.
Anders Svensson vs. Argentina (2002 FIFA World Cup group stage)
NFN's Sweden correspondent Nic Townsend has agreed to let us use the club profiles from his
excellent Doing Goals blog. Here's the first, on IF Elfsborg:
IF Elfsborg come from a small city (or large town if you will) called Borås. It has a
population of 60,000 people and is within an hour of Göteborg, and yet other than their football
team I couldn't tell you anything about it.
Mais um amistoso, realizado no mundo, foi realizado no dia 19/01/2011, na cidade de Cape Town-RSA,
no Cape Town Stadium, onde jogaram as seleções de Botsuana (54º no ranking da FIFA) e a
seleção da Suécia (33º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções nunca haviam jogado.
Jogaram em Solna, na Suécia, no estádio Rasunda, para um público de 25.342 pessoas, as
seleções da Suécia (41º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Albânia (97º no ranking da
FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
05-11-1988 - Albânia 1x2 Suécia (Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo)
08-10-1989 - Suécia 3x1 Albânia (Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo)
18-02-2004 - Albânia 2x1 Suécia (Amistoso)
06-09-2008 - Albânia 0x0 Suécia (Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo)
O quarteto de arbitragem desse jogo, foi assim definido: Árbitro: Nikolai IVANOV-RUS Primeiro Assistente: Nikloay GLOUBEV-RUS Segundo Assistente: Viatcheslav SMENOV-RUS Quarto Árbitro: Alexey NIKOLAEV-RUS
Aos 6 minutos do primeiro tempo, o camisa 3, Olof MELLBERG, abriu o placar para a Suécia.
The twentieth round of Allsvenskan gives us two very interesting matches at the top of the table.
Kalmar is up against the wall as they take on league leaders AIK. The reigning champions of Kalmar
will need to come up with a good result in order to remain in a strong title contender. In the
other notable match-up for the top, disease-ridden and injury-laden Elfsborg takes on Örebro only
three days after their match against Lazio in the Europa League.
With the nineteenth round upon us we're likely to see some shuffling both in the top and the bottom
of Allsvenskan. IFK Göteborg and Helsingborg will enter an extremely important head to head game
that is set to jumble the top five. All top five teams seem to have an equal shot at the gold at
this point and regardless of the results in this round no team should fall out of contention.
Excuse me, Allsvenskan? I think it's time we had a talk. Now don't get upset, because I'm not
really complaining. It's just that the recent results have us worried. We are concerned that you
may perhaps be... How do I put this?
You're absolutely, certifiably insane.
This was after all supposed to be the round where the results felt more or less predetermined.
Good afternoon! A few things to share with you on this scorcher of a Tuesday here in RBNY land.
First, remember that mystery midfielder that Mr. Backe has been talking about these past few weeks?
Well, that's him in the pic above, and he's been outed by the Norwegian press as being the RBNY
midfield target.
A Nicklas Bendtner inspired Denmark side over came Sweden this evening in a battle of
Scandinavia to claim the final three World Cup qualifying points they needed to reach next summers
tournament, with bragging rights for the natives to boot.
The exciting forward has led his country's charge to South Africa and started on the left hand
side against the Swede's who boasted Zlatan Ibrahimovic in attack.
The eighteenth round of Allsvenskan sees an historic five derbies played in the same round. On the
surface it doesn't look like much will change in the top of the table as most top teams face
relatively easy tasks. The bottom could see a bit more movement as Djurgården and Hammarby meet up
in one of the most interesting bottom feeder battles of the year.
