All Time Scandinavian XI

Although Harry Kane gets most of the headlines from the English media, whenever I watch Spurs nowadays the player who stands out the most is Christian Eriksen, he's absolutely outstanding and makes Spurs tick, for me the 2nd best midfielder in the Prem after De Bruyne. With that said, it's notable how Scandinavia as a whole has produced many good footballers and my all time XI would be:

P. Schmeichel

Laursen R Johnsen Agger

Ljungberg Eriksen M. Laudrup Riise

Zlatan

Larsson Solskjaer

That's leaving out the likes of Mellberg, Gravesen, Kasper Schmeichel etc

 

Change Solskjaer for Henry and that'd be some front three.

 

Poor Harold can fly the plane

 

No Jari Litmanen

 

Finns are not Scandinavian

 

I thought they were as well tbfhad to take Hyypia out.

 

Couple of lesser known older players.

Nils Liedholm & Gunnar Nordahl played together at Milan and Sweden.

Having helped Sweden win the gold medal in the 1948 Olympic tournament, Liedholm was the captain of the national squad at the 1958 World Cup, celebrated in his home country. Aged almost 36, he helped Sweden to reach the World Cup final, where the team lost out to a Brazil side that included Didi and 17-year-old Pelé. Liedholm scored the opening goal of the final, which makes him the oldest player to score in a World Cup Final; however, Brazil came back and won the match 5–2.

 

P. Schmeichel

Bergmark Johnsen Mjallby Riise

M.Laudrup Gravesen Eriksen

Henke Zlatan Nordahl

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Quite an imbalanced team but by * would that side score a lot of goals. Was struggling for a right back so Bergmark from Sweden's WC runners up side got the nod.

Disappointed I couldn't justify more than one Norwegian. I thought I'd have picked Solskjær but couldn't have picked him ahead of any of those 3 forwards.

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Nordahl was a fantastic player by all accounts. Glad to see someone else mention him. Over 200 goals for AC and more than a goal a cap from Sweden

 

Dunno if it's anywhere near being 20 years ago, but I'm sure that Gravesen and Stig Tofting were described as the "dogs of war". Two mad baldy *.




Also, Brian Laudrup has by far one of the greatest Scandinavian players of all time - nowhere near the level of his brother, but he was still some player.

 

Roland Nilsson ?

 

Cannie believe there is no mention of Allan Simonsen so far.

Absolutely scandalous...

 

That's a good shout. Completely drew blank at Scandi right backs for some reason. * UEFA Cup winner too, how did I forget Nilsson

 

Thomas Helveg?

100+ caps for Denmark.

 

Larsson Ibrahimovic


M. Laudrup


B. Laudrup Tofting Gravesen Simonsen


Hyypia Mjallby Mellberg


Schmeichel

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Antti Niemi

 

John Arne Riise
John Carew
John Dahl Tomasson
John Guidetti

Jan Molby

 

Peter Schmeichel

John Sivebaek
Ronny Johnsen
Henning Berg
Victor Lindelof

Jesper Blomqvist
Jesper Olsen
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Joshua King

Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Henrik Larsson

 

No Jan Molby ?