Craig Henderson (Unattached FC)

He's been selected for Oct games............. remembering he is a wide player Marto... (not a big target man}

Fitzgerald, Keat, Butler, CHRISTIE, PEVERLEY, Fallon,

Fitzgerald, Keat, Butler, CHRISTIE, PEVERLEY, Fallon,

Henderson, Keat, Fitzgerald....yeah..... excellent!!!!!!  

 Christie, Fallon, Peverly....facepalm NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

22 player squad apparently so it explains some of the above names being included.

And with Fitzgerald being called up it hopefully will stop all those individuals who still seem to question his eligibility to play for us.

Point is you can't compare a wide player with a target man. Smeltz, Killen and Wood out. He's hardly a filler 

CHRISTIE

85 mins for Craig in 2-3 home loss against fourth place AIK . Mjallby now 11th on table in 16 team league with three games left.

 http://int.soccerway.com/matches/2013/10/04/sweden/allsvenskan/mjallby-aif/allmanna-idrottsklubben/1446689/

Mjallby playing 6 am tomorrow morning away to Halmstad if anyone wants to watch a live stream.

Swedish league seems to have many live streams available...

Full game in 1-0 away loss to fourteenth-placed Halmstad this morning:

http://int.soccerway.com/matches/2013/10/21/sweden/allsvenskan/halmstads-bollklubb/mjallby-aif/1446698/

Mjalby eleventh on 16 team table with two games left in season.

just scored a goal for mjallby in addition of getting a yelloiw card

http://espnfc.com/us/en/gamecast/statistics/id/381345/statistics.html?soccernet=true&cc=5901

Scored what turned out to be the decisive goal and created the first one in a 2-1 home win v mighty Goteborg, third on the table & one of the biggest clubs in Sweden who play in a 19,000 capacity stadium:

http://int.soccerway.com/matches/2013/10/27/sweden/allsvenskan/mjallby-aif/ildrottsforeningen-kamraterna-goteborg/1446705/

Sounds like Craig is on fire with the Mexico games on the horizon:

http://www.maif.se/

"...Football-wise, they saw an entertaining match. Even after 6 minutes broke Craig Henderson past his defender and sent the ball at the ground in front of IFK case where John Alvbåge got his fingers on it, but dropped it to return as Kristian Haynes could broadside it in. The management was expanded in first half stoppage here a failed Gothenburg passing ended up with Andreas Blomqvist who could put a butter pass to Craig Henderson who in turn bombed the ball inside the post, goalie no chance. The management at halftime could have been both 2 and 3 goals more after a failed neutral by Haynes, the crossbar of Blomqvist and a misdirected header after a corner of Pearl...." 

The first win under new head coach Lasse Jacobsson.

One game left Sunday (3 am Mon NZT) v Kalmar 

10th on 16 team table but a win on the weekend could take them up to 8th or 9th if other results go their way...

not in the squad for the final game of the season.. Hope it was a precaution and that he is not actually injured!!

With Rojas doubtful with injury you would think that Craig would have the attacking left side locked in for the AW's. He's really impressed me in the games I have seen this season. Scoring goals and linking play very well. We need guys like him who are match fit and playing at a good level.

1st game of the preseason is next week for mjallby and Craig Henderson.

http://ca.soccerway.com/teams/sweden/mjallby-aif/2466/

Busy schedule of pre-season friendlies and Swedish Cup games coming up for Mjallby. They are in the Group Stage of the Svenska Cupen and play games March 2, 9, 16 NZT:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314_Svenska_Cupen#Group_8

A long gap between Cup games - Mjallby's last Svenska Cupen game was August 2013. They avoid playing in the worst of the winter.

Sweden's knock-out Cup runs continuously May to May with Premier League sides joining in August- September Round Two and the surviving 32 clubs playing in the Group Stage in March ( eight groups of four - play other group members once and group winner makes the quarter-finals).

Full Mjallby match schedule February - March:

http://www.maif.se/

2014-02-01 12:00 MJäLLBY AIF - KALMAR FF Träningsmatch  0-1

2014-02-17 15:00 SEONGNAM FC - MJäLLBY AIF  Träningsmatch

http://uk.soccerway.com/teams/sweden/mjallby-aif/2466/matches/

I heard he  signed with another club in Finland or Norway.. 

Interesting! 

Some reports just coming out of Sweden and Norway have Craig signing for Stabaek in Norway, who have a new coach, high-profile former US national team coach Bob Bradley who was Egyptian national coach until November last year:

http://www.nettavisen.no/sport/fotball/article3752889.ece

BÆRUM / OSLO: Newly promoted Stabæk  has secured a reinforcement before coming season in New Zealander Craig Henderson.

26-year-old has played for Allsvenskan club Mjallby recent seasons, and an agreement is already in the box. It will probably be signed Friday or one of the next few days.

It confirms the Sports Director Stabæk , Inge André Olsen, facing online newspaper Thursday.

- The agreement is in order, yes. I've been away for a few days, and that's the only reason it has not been finalized yet. It could happen as early as tomorrow, says Olsen to online newspaper.

Also Stabæk  coach Bob Bradley considered the agreement as ready as online newspaper visited Thursday's Stabæk  training in Bærum Idrettspark.

The fresh Stabæk  coach is confident that Henderson may be an important contributor to a young Stabæk  team next season.

- He's had a couple of seasons in Sweden, has done well and will provide quality in our team. He can play both left and right, are good with both legs and work hard, says Bradley to the online newspaper.

Henderson played college football for Darmouth Big Green for three years before he signed for Mjallby in 2010.

In October last year he made his debut for New Zealand's national team in a friendly against Trinidad & Tobago. He was also on the field in a World Cup qualifying match against Mexico a month late

http://translate.google.co.nz/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&u=http://www.fotbolltransfers.com/site/news/38746&prev=/search?q%3Dcraig%2Bhenderson%2BStabaek%26rlz%3D1C1AFAB_enNZ468NZ468%26espv%3D210%26es_sm%3D93

http://translate.google.co.nz/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&u=http://klacksparken.com/category/spelaretranare/craig-henderson/&prev=/search?q%3Dcraig%2Bhenderson%2Bmjallby%2Baif%26start%3D20%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1C1AFAB_enNZ468NZ468%26espv%3D210%26es_sm%3D93%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D667

January 29, 2014 at 11:14

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab%C3%A6k_Fotball

New manager is Bob Bradley, former US and Egypt national teams coach, Chicago Fire (MLS title 1998) coach. His son Michael has played in recent seasons for AS Roma in Serie A until signing last month for Ryan Nelsen at Toronto FC in MLS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34IfsPpIfd0

Someone please change the title of this thread to "Craig Henderson Stabæk"

Has played in five pre-season friendlies for Stabaek, including a 3-2 away win over mighty Rosenborg (Norway's best team of the last twenty years and lots of Champions League experience) last weekend:

http://www.altomfotball.no/element.do?cmd=player&personId=211860&tournamentId=990&seasonId=336&teamId=312&useFullUrl=false#video

Details of friendlies at bottom of page ("Quotes" is Google Translate's translation of "Stabaek")

Click on "Summary" and you get a video of highlights of each friendly. Henderson very involved vs. Rosenborg.

First game of new Norwegian season: Sunday (Monday NZT) vs. Sogndal

Henderson score in first game in new season in Norwey.

Goal for Craig on 14 mins and subbed off on 67 mins in 3-0 home win vs. Sogndal:

http://int.soccerway.com/matches/2014/03/30/norway/eliteserien/stabak-idrettsforening/sogndal-idrettslag/1605610/

Stabak have picked up former Parma and Argentinian Primera (Tigres) centre-back Pablo Fontanello on transfer deadline day who has fled the Ukrainian troubles at Odessa and has Europa League experience in the Ukraine.

One thing I've found with internet searches for "Stabæk Fotball" (the Norwegian name of the club) is since there is no English equivalent for the letter "æ" it's better to search for "Stabak" rather than "Stabaek" for example.

FIRST TEAM SQUAD 2014

Back row from left: 
7 Enoch Adu, 5th Jørgen Hammer, 28 Luc Kassi, 6 Fredrik Brustad, 21 Daniel Granli, 16 Morten Thorsby, Tomek Kaczmarek

Middle: 
Jan Peder Jalland, Alexander Cooper, Frederick Birkemo, 14 Jon Inge Høiland, 2 Timmi Johansen, 15 Would Jalasto 10 Emil Dahle, 4 Nicolai Naess, 81 Anders Trondsen, 30 Mike Stephens, Espen Granli, Bob Bradley, Toni Ordinas

Front: 
8 Stian Sortevik, 11 Franck Boli, 1 Mande Sayouba, 22 Jonathan Rasheed, 13 Eirik Haugstad, 18 Craig Henderson

This was a very smart move recently promoted club should ensure solid game time.I would put Norway ahead of Sweden in terms of competition quality as well. Swedens national team is much better but there competition weaker. We should be looking at a midfield diamond of

    Thomas-Wood-Rojas

   Henderson-McGinchley

               Keat

At least until Tuiloma can crack the starting XI or get regular bench spots

I think its touch and go but Norways teams in total are valued at a total of 145 million pounds with each player worth an average 385 000 pounds Vs 100 million pounds for swedens teams combined and then per player 270,000. This is going of transfermarket

Norway: http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/tippeligaen/startseite/wettbewerb_NO1.html

Sweden: http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/allsvenskan/startseite/wettbewerb_SE1.html

Transfermarket update player values at least twice a year so it is pretty accurate. Some number of team per comp as well 50 million difference in competition value I would say is enough to ateast have each competition on par with the other. Just my opinion anyways.

But it also has Brockie valued at 500K euros.

And Jeremy Christie at 150K euros.

Thats true but those values are given to all players whom are in similar situations as those mentioned above. Anyway all I was trying to say is that the quality is similar in the most part Sweden Vs Norway

Can't rely on those transfer values on transfermarkt.com - they are just guess work and speculation.
 

Other stats:

Sweden: One club made the European Cup Final (Malmo 1979), one other the semis, six times in the 1/4 finals of Euro Cup / Chmps Lge.

Norway: Only once has a club made it to the 1/4 finals of the European Cup / Chmps Lge.

"In Norway by television viewership football comes third, behind biathlon and cross-country skiing."

Such a detailed response cheers big pete. Yeah may have been wrong on that one. I think if he can get more game time it may turn out to be for the better otherwise it is looking like a step back

Henderson in starting 11 against Brann Bergen. Played houer and he is punisch yellow card.