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Whether it was his long blonde dreadlocks or his stunning goalscoring record, there was always something fans from all over the world admired about Henrik Larsson and he truly was a one in a million player. It was at Celtic, Larsson made his name scoring 242 goals in 313 games and established himself as a top-class goalscorer which ultimately led ...

Reports have emerged linking Manchester United with a move in the January transfer window for Andreas Granqvist, who captained Sweden in this year’s World Cup. Granqvist, who currently plays for Helsingborg in his native Sweden, has had a varied career, which included a 14 game spell at Wigan Athletic, as well as sojourns in Holland, Italy and Russia. Now he ...

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic is unarguably one of the greatest strikers in the history of the game. The retired Sweden international has won trophies in all the domestic leagues he has played in. At club level, only the coveted Champions League trophy evades him and a trophy won’t be necessary for him to seal his legendary status. The former Barcelona and ...

General Franco stops Spain from participating at the 1960 Euro Back in the day when the continental European competition was first played, the map of Europe looked a whole lot different than it does today. In fact, the European Championship or Euros were then known as the European Nations’ Cup and there used to be only four teams in the ...