Magnus Mühren, 41, is making a comeback.
One of Sweden’s best players are on the ice when the Villa receives Broberg on Friday evening.
– I’ll be with the Broberg, but also play the rest of the season, said the triple world champion.
It is almost a month since the Villa registered Magnus Mühren, who was already the leader of the club. Then it was said that he would be the backup, in case something happened.
But it’s not quite right.
– When we learned that Tim Persson would miss the rest of the season, said coach Johan Sixtensson if I could think of to be with. In a month I have been training hard to play, says Bandy legend.
Have some old friends heard of and checked if there will be any game?
– Some have encountered and asked if I was hungry. But I have not told anyone that I really trained to play. Now maybe it will be a little different, he says.
He ended up really with the Championship title with Sandviken in 2014 and has not played since.
With three world titles, five national championships and four titles that year bandy players in Sweden – you’re not nervous?
– well, a bit, actually. I’m a little tense …
Why?
– It is almost two years since I played, I do not know where I am. I’m in pretty good shape, but it is one thing to be there in training, another to be there when there is a match, he said.
What can you contribute?
– I want to contribute with my grades. I would not set up and play if I’m not hung out with. I have a good game master, and above all I have been through and won, that experience, I can contribute in this team responds Magnus Mühren.
– I want to perform, not to play and be poor.
What if you end up at the front with you Vasse top scorer David Karlsson behind?
– When I cry on the ball. I do not care if it’s David Karlsson, Johan Esplund or another. I have the best position I want to have the ball, he said.
How well trained are you?
– From being an ordinary Svensson I trained a lot for eight or nine months without being elite. But now I have come a long way, the body is, for example, much fresher now than when I quit after the gold two years ago, says Mühren.
The same day it was revealed that Magnus Mühren to do comeback did it ten years older tennis legend JO Waldner their last match. Can you understand that he stayed in so long?
– Sure I can. I followed him through the years. He is a bachelor and has been involved in a sport he loves. Sure, I can understand him. But time catches up us all. I knew when I left that I could hold on for a few years. But I was just as mentally tired, says Mühren.
Five gold in 16 seasons in Sandviken, two years in Russia, three World Championship titles – yet there is still room in memory for the three seasons in Gais.
– I had a really fun time in Gais. It was a glorious association with lovely people. I got on very well in Gothenburg. I had to go down a division and be with and play the team, and then fight to try to get us to the playoffs. It was a fun time, he said.
But now it is about gold chasing Villa and what Magnus Mühren, who do not play from the start against Broberg, can accomplish.
– The goal of the series is to at least maintain second place. The hope is to win the gold, we are one of four or five teams that have the capacity to do it, he says.
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