Football. ua talks about the players who are the backbone of the Swedish Ostersund - rival of Lugansk Dawn in the Europa League.

Ostersund, of course, does not have at its disposal the stars, even by the standards of Sweden, so in the title we limited ourselves to a very suitable word - the leaders. In addition to presenting the leading players of the Swedish team, we remembered a bit what the team's path to the group of the League of Europe.

Thomas Pettersson Position - central defender Age - 27 years Thomas - one of the few football players of Ostersund, who was involved in the games for the national team of Sweden and has experience of European competition. In addition to five matches for his country's U-21, he played with Gothenburg in the qualification of the Europa League - in the 2015/2016, 2016/2017 season and this season already together with Ostersund. This is his first hit in the group stage. With Gothenburg, he twice flied in qualifying. In the season 15/16 Goteborg lost to the Portuguese Belenensis (1: 2, 0: 0), and then to Karabakh (1: 0, 0: 3).

In addition to this experience Petterson still had an attempt to play abroad - from the summer of 2013 to the summer of 2014 he performed in Belgium for Liuven, where, incidentally, a year later passed our Alexander Volovik.

In early 2017 (the Swedish championship is played on the system of spring-autumn, and it was just before the start of the championship), Pettersson moved to Ostersund. He immediately became the main player and finally made his way into the group round of the League of Europe. And this way was glorious.

*** In the second round, Oestersund passed Galatasaray: at home the Swedes unexpectedly won 2: 0 (the second goal was scored on the second added minute), and on the road managed to snatch a draw - 1: 1.

At the next stage they were caught by an easier opponent - the Luxembourg Foul. Here Estersund was already easier (1: 0, 2: 1), and one of the goals was recorded by Pettersson. By the way, Thomas is quite effective, as for the central defender - for his career on his account 25 goals and 11 assists.

But the most serious success was waiting for Estersund in the playoff round - PAOK with Leo Matos and Evgeny Shakhov in the line-up that our Donetsk Olympic. It seemed that even with Estersund the Greeks would not experience problems, especially after the first match in Thessaloniki, where they won 3: 1 (one of the balls on the account of Leo Matos). But at home the Swedes won 2: 0 and passed on.

*** In all these matches Pettersson was on the leading roles. He is powerful, high - 190 cm. , like his partner in the center of defense Papagianopoulos.

Brva Nouri Position - Defensive midfielder Age - 30 years An experienced performer, player of the Iraqi national team. At the beginning of his career he played for various youth teams of Sweden, but then accepted an invitation from the team of the historical homeland. However, the main player is not, getting into the application only from time to time.

But in Ostersund he captain and full-time penalty shootout - thus, he scored both Galatasaray and PAOKu. He spent his whole career in Sweden, played for mediocre clubs. In Ostersund, Nouri moved in 2014, when the team played in the first Swedish league SUPERETTAN. Immediately was won a ticket to the big league ALLSVENSKAN, where Ostersund in the first season took eighth place and won the cup of Sweden, which allowed the team to start in the European League.

Nouri is not a typical opornik, he rather plays box-to-box, as his statistics say - in 120 games for Ostersund he scored 17 goals and gave 15 assists. Nouri has a well-placed shot and an excellent transfer. What you can see by watching the video below.

Saman Goddos Position - Striker Age - 24 years This striker is distinguished by excellent high-speed dribbling, can play as a central striker, or flank. Not only scores, but also gives a lot of assists. This year on his account just more assists than the goals themselves - five against six.

Ostersund bought Samana for only 50 thousand from the first-league club Syrianska. And in the first season, the forward scored ten goals in the championship.

For Gododos himself, this group round of the Europa League is an opportunity to sell himself to a stronger club and championship, so that everyone who will follow this team not only in matches with Zarei, for sure, will see his cool solo passages, many of which are in the video below.

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