Mikael Lustig

Never mind he can play next week.

 

Fresh as a daisy

 

Sory my bad.

 

**eye twitch**

 

That's the idea.

 

I'm conflicted because I love Lustig and think he deserves to play at the World Cup but I'm a mark for Buffon and want him at the World Cup one last time.

 

The World Cup without the Italians would be weird..

 

Although he's not Scottish he absolutely gets what it means to play for us loves to GIRUT. Love his passion and commitment. Even when he's becomes too slow he's defo the right kind of character we need around the club in the backgrounds for younger players. I'd imagine he'd be a great mentor.

 

I've missed him this week

 

Looks a bit rapey there

 

Umeå Glasgow. He aimed at the stars and dreamed of Juventus.
Mikael Lustig , 30, went methodically from Sandåkern, Umeå FC, Gif Sundsvall and Rosenborg to star status in both the national team and Celtic.
A unique triple in Scotland and strong efforts in Blågult during the past year are about to erase what the right back has become most famous for the 2012 Euro 2012 championship.
It will be difficult for me to top what I've been up to during that last year, says Lustig.

The editorial staff at Rødängsskolan in Umeå can not help but laugh at the kind of low-school game with the great football interest and the small-scale spectacle.

During the breaks and after the school day there is football that applies - at the schoolyard, on the grass plot in the residential area or at the gravel plot at Rödäng. The twin sister Malin is almost as sporty, in addition.

The recreation leader has played with Crystal Palace, shortly iconic at Djurgården, and is now a celebrated star in the big city of Västerbotten, but the ten-year-old has Alessandro Del Piero as his great idol and therefore the future is outdated. It is not difficult to provoke from the young goalkeeper what he is aiming for:
- I will be a professional in Juventus! says Mikael Lustig.

Steve Galloway laughs happily when sitting at his workplace at Umeå airport and tells about some of the first meetings in the mid 1990's with the school life as the 15th century later the Swedish national team's right-backed back.

Equally pleased is Galloway with his description of the player as he later became coach, first in Sandåkerns SK and then also in Umeå FC:
- Micke wants to take care of everything. If he hits a corner, he wants to run in and pin it.
"In addition, he has the energy and the energy to cope with it," said Galloway with a laugh.


He is happy to talk about Mikael Lustig after another successful year for the defender.
But in just one second, the 54-year-old gets a completely different voice.
Did you see Mickes picture somewhere here at the airport? In something else you read about Umeå?
- No, just that. What are we saying here in Sweden? It's hard to be a prophet in his own hometown.
"I think Lustig deserves more cred for what he has done for the football from here. Who is bigger? Jesper Blomqvist maybe, says Galloway.



Sand Skerns SK's chancellor's office in the northern part of Grubskogen in Umeå, looks out to the outside, not much for the world. Ten years ago, housing was built on the ground where Sandåkern had a chancellor, and most of the activities and the club were forced to move.

Sandåkern received 400,000 SEK to rebuild the new premises. The money did not go well and a few years later, the municipality said no to a new contribution or interest-free loan to a new clubhouse.


Here, there have been no tens of millions of kronor as in a VNL transfer to Manchester United.

The inside of the premises is glaring of a society where there is order and finding out. The website does not have the most modern design, but describes the pedagogical Sandåkern Sports Club's vision, business idea and value base.

There is also no doubt about the pride of one of the big clubs.
Chance list Alexander Lindgren has received pictures from a young Mikael Lustig through parents in the old P86 team.


On the couch, one of the former coaches, Roland Sundelin, 58, looks curious at the photographs:
"There we are at the old facility. There was the surface of sandy grass. We stayed there or at the little gravel road on the edge of the residential area Rödäng where many of the boys, including the Lustig family, lived, says Roland Sundelin.



When did these guys start playing in organized form?

"When we collected the nine-year-olds into one team, there were twelve guys in the team where Micke was one of them. Micke's father Mats was with as a coach and mom Ulla was a dedicated spectator.



- Outstanding, says Roland Sundelin.
- He was the youngest of them, born in December. Spikig som tusan. When he was kidding burgers he only ate the meat none of the other.
He sprinted in goals. He made half of our goals. We wanted us to play good football, good passport. We could nudge broadsides for an hour. We got Micke to subordinate and almost, but only almost, feel the same joy to fit a goal. He could actually fix the last defender and did the goal himself.




Sandåkern's joint-wound P86 team won the most of them.
Gimonäs had two good players, foreign boys. We went there against them in any match, but the series won us all the time. In any cup we could go on some nicks too, and then Micke ran away, crying. He disappeared for a while and then returned after a while when he had calmed down.


But the player with the great talent suddenly became just one in the crowd.
"When we switched to playing 11-manna, Micke's chaos began to grow in the long run. He was like a calf, he did not get the sinking as he ran. Our goalkeeper, Erik Wännström, had the same problem, "said Roland Sundelin.
"Micke got stupid, he was going to Juventus and he got a problem with his knees."

In the summer of 2001, Sundelin as district federation for Västerbotten had to take out the 15-year-olds who had to go to the elite youth club in Halmstad.

Several of the players from Sundelins and Sandåkern's P86 team came along, but not Mikael Lustig.
- Micke was very disappointed, but took it the right way. The following year he escaped physically and past all the peers again. Then he was as dominant as when we had played a silly football, "said Roland Sundelin.



Mikael Lustig was born in December 1986. A few months later Björklöven won SM gold, but Hockeyn has never tried Lustig seriously.

"Both me and my twin sister Malin played soccer and playing in early age. I do not know if it was about motherhood that she was afraid that I never tried to practice and play matches in hockey. I've never been around. In my mate there were only two of the guys who were hockey, Mikael Lustig tells us when we settled into a logs inside the mythical Celtic Park.

"Immediately when I was free, I went out with the friends and played football on the green where we lived or down the gravel at Rödäng where we also played matches later. When we got older we rode to Sandåkern's plane, which was five minutes away from home. It was natural for me to start playing soccer with Sandåkern belonging to the area where I grew up in Umeå.


"In the shaman we went well for a year and won all matches when we were in the 9-10's. When we fought a match, it was the fall of the earth for us. Everyone laughed. We were really superior.






How much did Mikael Lustig cry?

- Hahaha. I was probably one of the hardest ones.

Being an extremely bad loser is no exaggeration?

- No, that's right. That is enough with many athletes who have reached far. If you succeed, you have to swim when you lose.

Your mother, Ulla, has said in an interview that you could not even play soccer games at home.

- That might be correct. Fortunately, I've been better with this over the years. But in the football I still think it's hard to lose.




The first major contradiction came in 2001 when Lustig was either taken in the district team or handpicked to Umeå FC's new start youth team.
"I was better at inside bandy and it felt more fun then. Being seven, eight in a local football team was not that high for me then.




What made it turn?

- There is so much going on in that age. There were guys who had zero talent when we played the Shumans football. Then they suddenly came across the breakout a lot earlier, became big and strong. I catched up when I was 15-16 years old and then I felt my talent that was in the top was in phase with my physique.

In 2002, Mikael Lustig, the former ruthless striker and goalkeeper, was allowed to debut in Sandåkern's A team in Division Four as the 15th.
- There was no right back in that match. On that road it is, says Lustig.

Trainer for Sandåkern's A team then, Steve Galloway, who a few years earlier himself completed his active career in the city's big team, Umeå FC. Galloway knew Lustig earlier. As a school pupil, a young Mikael Lustig had explained to Galloway's free-time guide how he aimed at the stars and would be a professional in Italian Juventus.



After the success of the senior football with Sandåkern's A-team in Division Four, Umeå FC Lustig took over. One year later, Galloway also joined Umeå FC coach in northern divisions.
"I continued on Micke as the right back. He covered the whole edge, he ran up and down all the time. There was nothing I needed to tell him, he just drove on, "said Galloway.

- We had two amazing edges - Micke to the right and André Ghanbari as the left back. Two superoffensive backbones. The opposing team's coach came after the matches and said they could not handle "those two who ran up and down the edges all the time".

"Micke was still very young, not the best in the team, but had great development potential. He took care, did not get away and worked hard on the exercises, says Galloway, adding a laugh:

"He would still be a professional in Juventus just as he told me at leisure.

After two seasons in Umeå FC, Mikael Lustig was ready for the next step and moved to allsvenska Gif Sundsvall.
"Micke Dahlberg had the season before going to Giffarna and they knew each other well. It was natural to go to Giffarna when you were from here. I was glad that Micke moved. He would play at a higher level, "said Steve Galloway.




Roland Sundelin do not believe their eyes. He has settled down on the tv-couch at home in Umeå, as usual to check out the Svt program Landet Runt. In a competition, the viewers will name a famous person using different clues.

In the first part, reporter Tobias Johansson is sitting on a swap bench at a soccer field and says that the person seeking "started the career in the club Sandåkern".

Fun! Roland Sundelin thinks, Micke Lustig is the correct answer.

But when the next hint is played in the popular Svt program, the mood becomes different.


The Svt reporter hugs a lantern pole and says: "Many are the ones who made themselves a little fun at Umeåbons expense, and to be a little playful and playful, it's actually like keeping a pole."
- Now, I'm * *, Roland Sundelin nuts on the tv-couch.
"It's so * ridiculous that it's not true. One thing, Micke has missed a lot during a career. But all the players at that level have made more mistakes than Micke Lustig has done and now it's been more than five years since that freaking ballot.




Bset from the Västerbotten district team 2001, the career continued for Mikael Lustig.

Högerbacken was one of Giffen's best players and after returning to Sweden, he debuted as 21-year-old in the A-national team during the January tournament. Lustig takes the next step in the club career and moves to Norway Rosenborg during the summer.

In 2009, he will be able to win a breakthrough with the Swedish people at the U21-EM in the home team together with his contemporaries Marcus Berg, Ola Toivonen, Rasmus Elm and Pontus Wernbloom.


Mikael Lustig takes home his first heavier titles when his Rosenborg two years in succession becomes Norwegian champion. Högerbacken is ready for another club change, to the big team Celtic in Scotland.



"It feels like I had some luck on the road in connection with the clubs. Each team needs a right back where their previous right back has been one of the team's best players. Umeå FC failed to go up in the superette but the right back went to Friska Viljor. There was a free seat in the UFC when I got there and I got to play right away.

"When I went to Giffarna, Fredrik Lundqvist was Sundsvall's best player and he moved to Viking Stavanger. It was the same in Rosenborg. I've always had a good time when I moved.

Has it been conscious?

- No, I would have chosen those clubs anyway.

Has any club change been more important than anything else?

- No, everyone has been important. I think I've taken very big steps in all clubs when I got there. I've been playing in significant roles, despite being young and new. It has been a good step all the time, says Mikael Lustig.

But in the summer of 2012, Mikael Lustig is popularly popular with Swedish football's big scapegoat when he releases Andrej Sjevtjenko's corner kick in the gap between himself and the post in the Euro Premiere against Ukraine.


THE MISTAKE CAUSED LUSTIG TO BE MOCKED
The back was looked after his corner miss in the European Championships
Lustig's mistakes are scorned under the vinjetten # pillar of social media.

Lustig and I stand in Celtic Park, the heights are desolate, down the plane, the plankers work with the lawn, and when I remind Mikael Lustig about the match at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, his sense of mind is as crying as the autumn weather over Glasgow.





"From time to time it was extremely tough. It's something I'm still wearing with me, he says about the aftermath of the stupid post.

Is it a tag?

- Everything was so extremely big. When I leave with the football, it's unfortunately one of the stuff that's stuck.

Do you continue in a good way?

- Well, I kept it for myself quite a bit. Most people thought it would be quite okay with me. The best thing about football is to play a new match and do something good instead. It was the best medicine.

Did you get it bad?

- Yes of course. Sometimes you felt a bit sorry for yourself, sometimes you became a bit * and sometimes you want to blame for something else. Now it has been so long, now I have released it. But then it was tough for a few weeks.

Was there anyone who helped you when you saw what it looked like in the watch, in social media?

- No. I kept it for myself and most people thought it was calm.

How did your nearest environment react?

"That was probably part of what I thought was hard. I can take *. But there were many others who suffered from me.


The football around the situation - explain again.

"It was an outwardly screwed corner and then I would step out in the first zone. Had it been inwardly screwed, I would stay at the post.

"I'm not the one who wants to blame me, but it might have been in my place to tell me what I really would do.

Should Erik (Hamrén) have told it?

"He had a thousand other things to think about. Had he known that it would be such a big thing he would have been able to pick it up, says Lustig with a sigh.



In the year after EM, Mikael Lustig also receives problems with injury. By the end of 2013 he is forced to operate the hip and afterwards there will be consequential damage.

"It was two seasons that I had tough. Occasionally, it felt like it was over. That the body did not hold to play so many matches.

"I was injured for three weeks, came back and played two games since I went on a new injury and left for two weeks. I never got a good rhythm. It's not fun to drive rehab either and miss so many fun games and country matches.



What was the rescue?

"I went back to what I did in Rosenborg when I was there. I did not miss a match under 3.5 years. What did I do after the matches, what did I drive for strength? Now I've started to drive a lot of my own here in Celtic, both before and after the games in the gym.

What are you building then?

- Not muscles anyway ... hahaha.

"It's very preventive: loins, back thighs and so on," says Lustig.


Mikael Lustig looks into the locker room in Celtic Park's interior. To the right, he has the Frenchman Odsonne Edouard, closest to the left Englishman Kundai Benyu. The manager Brendan Rodgers is smart. The two 19-year-olds have a lot to learn and can benefit from sitting next to one of the team's best players, one of the most experienced and leader Mikael Lustig.


The cloak of the doubles against the tile floor is increasingly drowned by the audiences when the players leave the dressing room with the classy wooden wooden benches and wooden cupboards, turn left and enter the game tunnel, where the walls are decorated with thousands of living and deceased support names, engraved in white tiled bricks.

In a poll among football supporters, Fifa selects Celtic fans for the best in the fall of 2017.

60,000 spectators are unanimous in You'll never walk alone.

Despite over 200 games for Celtic, Mikael Lustig can not be unmoved.

"It's a powerful mood.

On the stands, eight Umeåkompisar - Anton Ahlgren, Markus Westberg, Joakim Vikström, Gustav Broadhall, Erik Wännström, Nils Bylund, Gustaf Persson and Christoffer Routledge - took place.

The whole companionship lives at Mikael Lustig, the wife Josef and the daughters Lucia, 6, and Lexie, 3.

"My family thinks it's pork when they're greeted. They have been to Sundsvall and Trondheim as well. We in the Rödäng League are together. It's great for all of us to experience this, "says Lustig.

Although it is not Allianz Stadium in Turin.



The 2015/16 season won Mikael Lustig and Celtic double in Scotland. When Janne Andersson took over as the corporation of Erik Hamrén, Lustig took another step forward as he had taken step by step step by step earlier in his career. In Blågult he wins strong World Cup qualifiers with three goals in the national team tie over the past year.




The season 2016/17 wins the Lustig trip (league, cup and league match) with Celtic and the team passes through the series game undefeated and sets a record in the number of points scored and goals scored.

When the right back is one of the few that reaches the normal standard in the loss match against Bulgaria in the World Cup qualifiers, Sportbladet Erik Niva writes on twitter:

"Apart from Z, I assume that Mikael Lustig has been the best player of the national team in the last five years."



"I feel that I have maintained a stable national team for a long time. I think it's incredibly fun to play in the national team, "says Lustig, as we look out over Celtic Park.

Have you done your best year in your career?

- Club, absolutely. We took home the trip, did not lose a match in Scotland, we hit the mass of record. It's hard to spice it up.

What would it mean for you to get the Gold Ball?

"It had been something extreme. It had felt surreal. Something I have never even dreamed about. I have never even thought about that idea, he says, striking his arms.




What has the last year meant for you personally?

"It has been extremely instructive with a new manager, a new way to play. I've gone from being an offensive backback to becoming a more defensively important player - I've played midback or in a three-back line. I've got a different role in which I was doing a lot of the play.

"Keep running up and down for an edge tearing your body when you grow older. Should you play over 50 matches a year, it's healthy to charge you differently. I know that I have a good fit and can contribute in several ways. Our left back, Kieran Tierney, is a young guy who is extremely talented and he is forwarding very much.

What has Brendan Rodgers meant for you?

- Much. It's a great coach. Certainly the best I had. He knows exactly what he wants.

"We are so good that we can change tactics and ways to play from match to match or during matches. We have played with three-line, five-or four-line and Rodgers says what to do and why. I have learned a lot of him last year.



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From the interview above


“The more I play for Celtic, the more I think of finishing my career here. "We are so happy here. After six years here I love the club, my family thrives and it is it working well with schools for our daughters. "It would take a lot for me to leave Celtic.”

 

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My * I love him with all my heart.

 

Is their anything more frustrating than the fact that no one managed to get a close up HD picture of him with the beachball on his head?