Lazlo78 Posted 13 May, 2014 Share Posted 13 May, 2014 Just want to share a little football story. Since 1995, my local team, Aalborg BK, has been just about the only one to really challenge FC Copenhagen and Brøndby's dominance in the league with championships in '95, '99, and '08. The last few seasons have been an economical and sporting disaster with last day survival, administration scare, selling of profiles etc. This season, the star striker, Helenius, was sold to Aston Villa, and in January the star defender was sold to Nijmegen in Holland. Kids were brought in from the academy to plug the holes and try to stave off relegation. After 18 of 33 rounds (long winter break) the team was surprisingly 2nd in the league, 4 points after the leaders FCM. The kids were delivering entertaining football and scoring lots of goals! After the winter break, the team amazingly won against FCK, Brøndby and twice against FCM meaning that after 25 rounds they were suddenly 1st! After a wobbly finish from all the top teams, AaB went into the 32nd round 3 points ahead of FCM but with inferior goal difference. A drab 0-0 was played out against a newly promoted team with a tiny stadium, meaning that the focus was on FCM's match; would they gain 2 points on AaB before the last round? Home against FCK they went ahead 1-0 but then fell behind 2-1 (a goal from Cardiff FLOP Cornelius! ). AaB on course to take gold. Then FCM found an equaliser and after 75 minutes disaster struck: Margreitter (on loan from Wolves) gave away a penalty and was sent off. A chance for FCM to grab a vital win. However the penalty was missed and a draw seemed to be on the cards. This would leave FCM 3 points behind on the final day but with superior goal difference. While FCM were looking to snatch all three points in extra time, a disappointed AaB player was involved in a post-match interview that got... interesting: In spite of the Danish gibberish you probably guessed it: 10 man FCK scored deep into stoppage time sending the championship to Aalborg. The AaB players only learned about it when they heard it from the fans. Party time! Next Sunday I really look forward to the game against already relegated rivals Aarhus GF - should be one huge party at the stadium :D (combined with Saints' results and development it's been one heck of a footy season for me!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goatboy Posted 13 May, 2014 Share Posted 13 May, 2014 Quality! Thanks for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 13 May, 2014 Share Posted 13 May, 2014 Yes, thanks for sharing. I have actually been to Aalborg many years ago, to the shipyard back in the days when they still built them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 13 May, 2014 Share Posted 13 May, 2014 Good video. Thanks. Nice red and white striped shirts as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 14 May, 2014 Share Posted 14 May, 2014 That is brilliant! Congratulations to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo78 Posted 14 May, 2014 Author Share Posted 14 May, 2014 (edited) Thanks for the comments. Tomorrow we have a chance to record our first ever double in Danish football when we take on FC Copenhagen in the cup final. AaB have lost the last 7 cup finals they have appeared in since winning the cup in '66 and '70, so expectations are low. But all in all it certainly has been a great season! Edited 16 May, 2014 by Lazlo78 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo78 Posted 16 May, 2014 Author Share Posted 16 May, 2014 This season just gets better and better. In front of 27.000+ fans - 12.000 from Aalborg - AaB won the cup with a resounding 4-2 victory over FCK in the national arena. AaB fell behind, but dug deep and dragged themselves ahead before the break. In the second half they kept their structure and scored two great goals before FCK pulled back a late consolation goal. What a party. The first double for AaB since the cup was introduced in 1955 and with a team of youngsters. [video=youtube_share;eigDyugDiKQ] Saints have three players at the WC so I will cheer for England. No matter how they fare, my season of football will be almost impossible to top. Wow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo78 Posted 6 August, 2014 Author Share Posted 6 August, 2014 We lost the home game in the 2nd CL qualification round 1-0 against Dinamo Zagreb, but today AaB went to Croatia and recorded a 2-0 win. Next round opponents are one of: Steaua Bucharest, APOEL Nicosia, BATE Borisov, Red Bull Salzburg, and Ludogorets Razgrad. A win and AaB is in the CL groups. A loss and we are in the EL groups. Still with a young team that hasn't changed much since last season... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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