World Footy News

The Swedish Elks held a national team training camp in Jönköping last weekend as the start of preparations for their planned International Cup debut in 2008. Thirty Swedish players and two coaches took part, with another ten players under consideration but unable to attend.

Swedish AFL president Jimmy Ljunggren is rating Sweden very likely to make the trip down under. As he explains, "We had representativies from Gothenburg, Stockholm, Falun, Karlstad, Landskrona and Malmö. We are planning to orginize another camp in April, a club-cup event in May, an international game in June (most likely Finland) and one in July (hopefully against Denmark)."

The session was organized by Swedish footy veteran Andreas Svensson and coached by Australians Ryan Kingsley and Cameron Crooks. Ljunggren tells us Svensson is currently the frontrunner for the job as captain as the most experienced campaigner and the only Swede to have played in the IC so far, representing Denmark in 2002.