Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Swedes in Holland

Sweden gear up for a trip against traditional European Powerhouse Holland in Amsterdam tonight with no fewer than 5 players in the squad who play their club football in Holland.
Of the those five midfielder Rasmus Lindgren of Ajax plays his football at tonight's venue the Amsterdam ArenA.
Andreas Isaksson of PSV has only played in Holland for 3 months while Andreas Grandqvist, Marcus Berg and Petter Andersson are all team mates at FC Groningen.
Having such a large number playing in Holland should serve Sweden well. But it also means that they would know what players to look out for and what way the pitch is.

Allsvenskan?
But Sweden have a big number of players playing abroad. In this squad there is just 2 home-based players. Daniel Andersson of Malmö and Henrik Larsson of Helsingborgs. This is a problem for Allsvenskan players who think that maybe playing abroad will give them a call-up.
In the Allsvenskan a number of Swedish players stood out such as Patrik Ingelsten, Viktor Elm, Robin Söder and Agon Mehmeti.

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