Monday, October 5, 2015

IFK Norrköping way to the top – Swedish Radio

Emir Kujović, who scored two goals the day before, looks tired and does not seem to have slept for many hours after Hacken match.

– I’ve had trouble sleeping, I’ll make it up . It empties so much physically and mentally during the matches, said Kujovic.

If we leave the present and the slopes at one year, the situation was anything but easy for Norrkoping comrades who at the end of the headlines low and struggled around relegation . The team captain Andreas Johansson remembers last year’s problems:

When IFK Norrköping had its greatest successes in Swedish football in the 1940s and 50s, the club was very good at finding talent across the country and enlist them to Norrköping. The brothers Nordahl, for example, brought from Hörnefors in Västerbotten. The own youth activities was however so-so with. But it has become much better now, and an explanation for success, says Janne Andersson:

Outside the stadium Parken, the club put up a statue of his great scorer from the 1940s, Gunnar Nordahl. Today’s scorer Emir Kujović. With 19 goals scored, he is of course an important factor behind the year’s successes. Why is it so much better this year than in 2014?

Says Emir Kujović that because he had not heard of any interest from Erik Hamrén, started thinking about saying yes to the proposals but the Montenegrin national team.

It is 26 years ago IFK Norrköping won the Swedish Championship gold, then after the victory on penalties in an abandoned SM-final series. Last club took the gold by winning the league, was in 1963. But now it should be time again, like the team captain Andreas Johansson.

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Paul Zyra
paul.zyra@sverigesradio.se

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