Here's a thread to discuss the Swedish Champions

A few photos of their beautiful ground first:

Entrance




The Wall




The Wall - Anne Mäkinen ( gone to another club )




The Wall - Hanna Ljungberg




The Wall - Anna Sjöström ( retired )




Umeċ IK Hall of Fame 1




Umeċ IK Hall of Fame 2




Umeċ IK Hall of Fame 3




Umeċ IK Hall of Fame 4




Umeċ IK Hall of Fame 5




Umeċ IK Hall of Fame 6




Umeċ IK Hall of Fame 7




Umeċ IK Stadium - The Eastern Stand




Umeċ IK Stadium - The New Stand



I might have gotten the stands wrong
- even Agent W. is not sure which is which

Nice piccies, shame about the track and field area around the pitch.
It puts the supporters farther away from the players.

Yes I hate those too!
But I think all of the Swedish stadiums I've been to, have them.

Same, I have been to one game there, maybe not actually ? It was for Djurgarden Arsenal.

Been to Djurgarden's game too God did they suck that day!!

You went to the game at Stockholm as well ? Arsenal sucked ? I will have to look at my notes

No mate, I have been to a Djurgarden game.
Not the one vs Arsenal and I said Djurgarden sucked that day
(the day I went to see them play). Back to UIK though please

Apparently I did get the stands wrong
- the blue & yellow one is The Eastern
and the one I was closer to is The New Stand.
At least according to an UIK fan on their forum

Did this thread have to be started?!
Oh well, hopefully I can come in here and laugh on the 21st of April

Nice pics though
Are people allowed to walk all over the hall of fame?!

Yes it had to be started, shush you!

Of course everyone's allowed to walk all over the hall of fame
- you can compare Ljungberg's boot print to yours for example
and giggle at the thought that she probably buys her shoes in a kids shop

If you have small feet the boots are cheaper
hehehe I'd fun eerr...walking on the "hall of fame"

Ma Xiaoxu has arrived in Umeċ

Defender Karolina Westberg
thinks UIK are good at taking care of new players.
- We hang out a lot together,
but some of us come from out of town.
- Are you doing something special to welcome new players?
- We have a ritual... but that will have to wait a little,
until she knows a little Swedish.
- Will she get to sing?
- Yes, hahaha.

Thanks Agent W. for helping with translation

Lise Klaveness in her mini-blog on UIK's site
said she went to a hockey match recently,
for the first time in her life,
and she was shocked that someone can actually score
on a goal that is smaller then her washing machine
and a goalie bigger than her living room

Also, when June Pedersen tried to introduced herself to Ma Xiaoxu, in Chinese,
Ma looked frightened due to June's big lips movement

Hahahahaha funny girl Lise!

Was that field hockey or ice hockey?
Or do they just play both at the same time in Umeċ

I don't know if it was in Umeċ - she just went to see a game with her mates
And I'm not sure what kind of hockey it was
(she writes in half-Swedish, half-Norwegian)
I'm guessing ice hockey concidering the weather in Scandinavia
at this time of year
- what difference does it make anyway?

I was only j/k

Ice-hockey share the top spot as Sweden national sport (with football of course) and most scandinavians have never heard about any other kind of hockey. So guess which it was?

Thanks janbalk

Umeċ IK 2007:

The Ice Hockey equivalent of El Classico: IF Björklöven vs Skellefteċ AIK at SkyCom Arena.
Umeċ vs Skellefteċ (where Sunnanċ come from). Countless penalties. fights you name it. Both teams usually play second tier hockey, but this last season Skellefteċ played in the first league, the Elitserien. Skellefteċ thus officially being a whole class better made their encounter in the end of season playoffs even more heated.

Sounds like fun

The city council is discussing a proposal to remove the track & field area as they renovate the old stands in a few years. This infuriated the track&field clubs, of course, but they'll probably get their own arena if all goes accoring to plan.

I will see the stadium on Saturday

I do hope it will be a great match, hopefully Umeċ will play better than they played against Sunnanċ otherwise they won't have the speed . But a good news is that Hanna Ljungberg is looking better and probably can play on Saturday

Back when Brazil NT played a friendly against Umeċ IK, the press people from the CBF referred to the stadion as el estadio Utrymning, probably because of the pictures of the stadion captioned Utrymning he found all over the place. The only problem was that he was looking at the emergency evacuation schematics strategically placed all over the stadion, so basically he referred to Gammliavallen as the Emergency Exit Stadion.

Funny