Canadians in Scandinavia, July 1 + 2

[Jeffery S.]

Chris Pozniak played 90 in a scoreless tie between his Orebro and AIK in Swedish top flight yesterday. Niki Budalic did not get off the bench. The team is 5 points off the league lead and has an easy-ish game to get past to make the Cup quarter finals.

The team reported on their web on June 27 that he had been called up for the Gold Cup and Budalic had not.

In Sweden tonight Atiba Hutchinson's Östers is away to relegation avoidance rivals Sundsvall. In Norway 2nd tier Milan Kojic's Haugesund has an away match as well as they fight to push into promotion spots.

Make the ball run, so you don't have to.
-Johan Cruyff

[Luis_Rancagua]

Sundsvall 1 - 1 Oster. Atiba Hutchinson is the hero of the day as he came into the game and scored in the 52nd minute to tie the game for Oster who were down 1 - 0. Game report: http://www.svenskfotboll.se/Result.asp?WCI=wiResults&WCU=507619

[Gian-Luca]

Atiba is the man! That's his third goal of the season, his second that has gotten his team a draw. All this from a 19 year old defensive midfielder in his first year in the league. Looking forward to seeing this kid become a star in the future for Canada.

Even the wolf can learn. Even the sheep can turn. Even the frog can become at last the prince. - Peter Hammill, Over (1977)