Skövde thought they had made a fifth decision.
But the last-second winning goal was scrapped and instead Ystads IF became Sweden’s champion for the first time in 30 years after an unrivaled thriller with double extensions and penalties.
– I was ready to cry after the game. It’s so much bigger than self, says coach Oscar Carlin, there are so many whites who have waited so long.
When Ystads IF He won gold in the Swedish championship in 1992, and Per Karelin was the star of the big team. now son Oscar Carlin Handball nest trained for gold again.
After that, they stood together on the inner floor. Big Carlin wears the match shirt from 1992 and Oscar has tears in his eyes.
– He’s a magician, an entire city has waited so long to win the gold medal. Ideas float away. Somehow we solved this, very cool, says Coach Gold who tried to sum up ideas after a drama unlike anything else.
Ystad ran the game even in the first half and probably thought they had a gold rush midway through the second half when they went from 24-22 to 27-22 with a quarter left.
But despite the veteran and playing coach Christian Svensson at Skovde receiving a red card with the same crank, Skovde refused to give up.
Henrik Signell timed out, urging his team and saying “five goals is nothing, there is plenty of time left”. So true, Fabian Norstein made some important saves and used a Ystad expulsion to catch up to 30-30 with four minutes remaining.
I waited so long to make a decision
Despite Skövde’s Dan-Beck Hansen being sent off, they managed to maintain their par at 32 with 40 seconds left.
Ystad had one last attack to secure the gold medal – but instead they threw the ball away with six seconds left and Jack Thorin ran single-handedly towards Ystad’s goal and put it 33-32. I think everyone.
The referees pointed at the goals, and Skovdey cheered for the win but Ystad protested and said the match clock had gone 60 minutes before the shot. After discussing with the Secretariat, they were right.
“illness”
– That’s totally sick, C More’s Jenny Lynell says of the drama.
The drama continued into the first overtime period as the team was followed up again. Skövde threw the ball wide when they could arrange a two-goal lead and when Ystad got a fresh attack for the gold with 30 seconds left, Skövde fought back again and that was a ten minute extension.
Decided to shoot
But even then it was not possible to separate the law. Skövde and Ystad both had the finish point 42-42 but missed, instead everything was decided by the new handball penalty shootout, a type of free kick.
Man of the match, Skövde’s 14-goal shooter, Viktor Hallen, immediately pulled out his ribs and then Ystad took a golden fist they didn’t let go. When Julius Lindskog Anderson took the 5th freestyle, the 30-year-old gold drought ended.
“You should be forever grateful”
Kim Anderson has been through a lot but even taken it all in.
– It’s indescribable, it’s too big. We get to win this way. We have one and two chances to decide early, it’s too big.
Oscar Carlin got to sing the victory song in front of a white sea in the stands.
– It is difficult to describe what this means, it means so much.
