Written by Smithy on August 5th, 2010
The Sweden V Scotland International Challenge match has been confirmed as being on TV.
SPORT: Football Friendly
On: ESPN (529)
Date: Wednesday 11th August 2010 (starting in 5 days)
Time: 19:00 to 21:00 (2 hours long) VideoPlus: 62985
Sweden v Scotland.
Scotland's last friendly before the Euro 2012 qualifiers begin next month is this tough test against Sweden at the Rasunda Stadium. See how Craig Levein's men get on, here on ESPN.
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Posted in: Away Games
Written by Smithy on April 9th, 2010
A special T-shirt for the Sweden friendly in August is now available to pre-order. The image below is an artist's impression only. The T-shirt will be in grey marl with the image in black on front, and match details in Swedish on reverse.
Sizes available are Small to XXLarge. Anyone interested in buying this unique souvenir please go to www.loonyalba.com to pre order. The t-shirts are £10 reach with p+p £2.50. Paypal is available or send a cheque to Lunnainn Albannaich, PO Box 28230, London N21 1DO. Make the cheques payable to Lunnainn Alba and state the size required. T-shirts expected to be available for despatch in late May.
There will also be a match badge available featuring the split flag design currently seen on the website. These should also be available in around the same time.
Posted in: Sweden
Written by Smithy on March 4th, 2010
The SFA have finally confirmed that the full international between Sweden and Scotland will take place on the 11th August 2010. The venue will be decided in the coming few weeks.
Possible venues include Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo.
Scotland last played Sweden in 2004 in a friendly at Easter Road where we lost 4-1. Previous to that we played them away in Gothenburg during 1997 as part of the 1998 World Cup Qualifiers where we were beaten 2-1.
Match stats -
- Played - 11
- Won - 5
- Drew - 1
- Lost - 5
- Gols For - 14
- Against - 16
The full stats between Scotland and Sweden can be found on Scotland Football Stats here
The news release can be found on the SFA website here
On eBay at the moment
Posted in: Sweden
Written by Smithy on March 4th, 2010
Craig Levein has won his first game as gaffer of the Scotland International squad. This breaks a 14 years dry spell for Scotland wins at friendly matches at Hampden.
Attendance was 26,530. The east stand and south stand upper were closed for this match with the North and West stands reasonably full.
Scott Brown scored the winning goal after 60 minutes.
Scotland Squad - Gordon, Hutton, Caldwell, Webster, Wallace, Dorrans, Fletcher, Brown, Thomson, Robson, Miller. Substitutes - Marshall, Alexander, Iwelumo, Boyd, Kenneth, Whittaker, Adam, Hartley, Berra, Dixon.
Czech Republic Squad - Drobny, Kusnir, Hubnik, Sivok, Kadlec, Plasil, Holek, Hubschman, Rosicky, Necid, Sverkos. Substitutes - Danek, Rajnoch, Papadopulos, Skacel, Pudil, Blazek, Moravek.
On eBay at the moment
Posted in: Friendlys
Written by Smithy on February 22nd, 2010
Craig Levein announced his first Scotland squad today which will face the Czech Republic on Wednesday 3rd March.
Forwards
Kris Boyd - Rangers
Steven Fletcher - Burnley
Chris Iwelumo - Wolverhampton W
Kenny Miller - Rangers
Midfield
Charlie Adam - Blackpool
Scott Brown - Celtic
Graham Dorrans - West Bromwich Albion
Darren Fletcher - Manchester United
Paul Hartley - Bristol City
Lee McCulloch - Rangers
James McFadden - Birmingham City
Barry Robson - Middlesbrough
Kevin Thomson - Rangers
Defenders
Alan Hutton - Tottenham Hotspur
Christophe Berra - Wolverhampton W.
Gary Caldwell - Wigan Athletic
Paul Dixon - Dundee United
Garry Kenneth - Dundee United
Lee Wallace - Heart of Midlothian
Andy Webster - Rangers
Steven Whittaker - Rangers
Goalkeepers
Neil Alexander - Rangers
Craig Gordon - Sunderland
David Marshall - Cardiff City
Posted in: Friendlys
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