Johansson wants to erase the memory from 2004 – Sydsvenskan

After blood and will sweat tears.

– It can probably come. Then we’ll see what becomes of tears. Positive or negative. It’s really in the mood for drama, very inspiring, says Johansson.

For many in the IFK Norrköping, with a whole bunch own products, it is a new experience to the distance to the SM-gold only 180 minutes.

Andreas Johansson has been much closer.

HH: What remember you from 30 October 2004?

– IFK Göteborg home on Örjans grassland. We lead the series before the last match, one point ahead of Malmo FF, are 1-0 in the break. Then we go on a penalty, the ball takes on Tomas Žvirgždauskas arm. (Peter) Delight Feldt sentence. I think it is “Olme” (Magnus Johansson) Wrapping it. Meanwhile, Malmo penalty against Elfsborg (Niklas) Skoog miss it but (Jon Inge) Høiland shaves in return.

With almost photographic sharpness remember Johansson events with Halmstad eleven years later and how he felt and still feel.

– When I was younger and it floated with the most. Afterwards bothers you more than it missed the gold. Many times I thought “what if”.

– Now that you are older, I feel, we, IFK Norrköping, that you really have a chance to take it.

TT: Did you that you would get as clear a chance to win the Swedish Championship gold again?

– Somewhere it has been and thought and dreamed. The idea was that I would be here for three years, but last I felt that something was going on and extended the contract by two years.

HH: Janne Andersson says that you are “team player personified”.

– So it is. For me it’s about the team, that together we will win the match. How this is done is less important.

HH: He says that you are one of the few he would be willing to “marry off his daughter “.

– Haha, I heard it. I really do not know what to answer.

HH: That you is busy, maybe?

– Just I got married a few months ago and it feels good and I feel comfortable with it, Johansson says, laughing.

He then becoming a little more serious.

– I like very much to play for Janne. He is a very good coach

and a great person. We have fairly similar values ​​on things. Is that something that weighs, in terms of football or private, can talk with him and he’s very wise answer.

Andersson makes wise choices also. At the end of last season, when Norrkoping danced stiffly around the table’s lower dash, he took down his captain from central midfield to center back. In the last four matches were ten points. Johansson left the position and Daniel Sjölund was recruited as the new midfield strategist.

Two strong contribution to Norrköping success.

HH: Has the precarious situation you were in last year important now?

– I believe that. The press was worse then. Will IFK Norrkoping to go out again? Now it is only positive, for all that played then and now. We feel no pressure. We have everything to gain. We play good football, leading the series, are already ready for Europe. No matter how it goes, we have done it very well, but when we are where we are, we want to win, of course.