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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

BITESIZE | Jocky Bjorklund: Larsson is the thinking man’s Swede

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today’s story comes from Jocky Bjorklund, who talks about his former Old Firm rival and international teammate Henrik Larsson, who was one of the cleverest and most adaptable footballers he has ever seen.

Listen to the original full episodes:

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0:00.0

Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode you'll

0:18.1

hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day.

0:22.4

All of them will come from my

0:24.0

podcast, the big interview with Graham Hunter, which you can find by searching on

0:28.2

Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. In training, not in matches, what were you beginning to think about this little dreadlock

0:42.0

kid who played for Finard, because I guess you

0:45.9

can't have had a massive exposure to Henke Larson prior to that, and certainly this would

0:52.2

be regarded as his breakthrough tournament.

0:54.9

In private, in training what were you beginning to think of him?

0:58.1

I played him a few times in the Swedish League before we went there and it's the same age as me but he broke through a little bit later and then I in the national team in general I think but then it lasted a lot longer than me as well.

1:16.0

Really good player who had a hard time getting a starting place

1:22.0

because we had two good players up front

1:23.7

but Martin Dalin and Kenneth Anderson.

1:26.9

Kenner scored five goals and Martin four.

1:30.3

Hard to get in that team, but obviously you could see, you could see already

1:36.4

then he was going to be a good player. Then he played for a dark side.

1:40.0

But like, he was made to play in midfield at fire which is one of the reasons he left.

1:45.6

And I wonder if you were seeing identical movement from him in training sessions because I think he, I don't think it's talked about a lot, but I think he was an immense and bright footballer who figured out a lot about the game and chose when I saw him chose a completely different

2:06.6

attitude how to play and behave at Celtic competitive.

2:09.0

Then when he went to Barcelona he had to relearn football and I've watched him relearn it when Eto or Chavi wouldn't give him the balls when he was making a Celtic run and he was used to say I've made that it and said it did because he just scored and won them things

2:25.6

And I believe that probably you were saying a Henric Larson in 94 and when you played him previously

2:32.2

who was quite different from the Henric Larson in the latter two-thirds of his career.

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