Memorial Ceremony for Pontus Segerstrom – Aftonbladet

Football Sweden is in mourning after BP’s captain Pontus Segerstrom, 33, passed away from cancer.

In the evening gathered friends and football colleagues for a ceremony at Grimsta IP where queues to memory table coiled length.

Brommapojkarna captain Pontus Segerstrom lost his battle with cancer the tumor in the brain of the night. This morning the Football Sweden shock of grief and since then has been heavy over the home Renan Grimsta IP where players consoled each other and shared memories of his captain.

– It came as a shock. I first and foremost not found the seriousness of this. Of course cancer is absolutely terrible, but it would go this far, he would die 33 years old, it is absolutely terrible, ‘said teammate Martin Falkeborn, 21.

“Incredibly nicely arranged”

During the evening were the club to a more organized memorial ceremony. People gathered at the standing room grandstand where you could add a flower and light a candle at a large flag with Segerstrom number two.

The atmosphere was very subdued and the queues in memory table in the clubhouse snaked long, reports Sport Bladet reporter Fredrik

Falk.

The event was especially several youth players in Brommapojkarna, but also others from Stockholm football.

– Incredibly nicely arranged. Honorable in every way. You can feel in the air that there is something hard has happened. It is a big blow. Soccer may not be as important, says Djurgården sports director Bosse Andersson.

“A great man”

Peter Kisfaludy, former sports director of AIK and currently youth coach at BP, had Pontus Segerstrom in the famous 81-team in Brommapojkarna where he played with Pablo Pinones Arce and Babis Stefanidis.

– It sucks that he died so young and has two young children, he said with tears in his throat and continues:

– He was an amazing player and person. He was liked by all, that was why he became captain of BP.