Hatchlings

Hatchlings is back for the second leg after a fort-night a strong showing in the first was good enough for some nice plaudits lets see how she fairs the second time around. If you miss the tie it was a hell of a debut compose, elegant and taticaly brilliant. A replay is some compensation but it would only mar the brillance that was displayed but if you must I implore to check the first installment of Hatchlings on the blog. For those who do not know what I speak of or can not decipher the football analogies it is a series I like to call Hatchlings in an egg shell yet another reptilian based pun it is basically a profile of a young or "immature," player that is now starting out in his professional career sort of like my own writing career and stepping out of the writer's bias I hope the guys I display in this segment make it to the highest level me as well. With that Avanti.





Name: Alfe Inge Sebastian Larsson



D/O/H: 06/06/1985 (age 24)



Place of Hatching:Eskilstuna, Sweden



Position: Midfielder ( Central Midfielder/Right Midfielder/Left Midfielder)



Prefered Claw: Right



Height: 5'10 ft/inches



National Team: Sweden



Caps: 8



Club Teams: Eskilstuna City FK (Youth Level), IFK Ekilstuna (2000-01), Arsenal (2001-07), Birmingham City FC (2006-07) (loan), Birmingham City FC (2007- present)

Dead eyed dead ball specialist is just one acolade that can be labelled to this savvy Swede. Sebastian is a star in the making but with all stars it needs an origin. Alfe Inge Sebastian Larsson was born the 6th of June 1985 in the sleepy Swedish city of Ekilstuna. Sebastian Larsson began his footballing education in his hometown of Ekilstuna with there team Ekilstuna City FK as with most if not all young football prodigies Sebastian ploughed through the youth ranks. Here is where it gets a bit confusing young Larsson left the junior team dubbed Ekilstuna city FK to join their senior brigade dubbed IFK Ekilstuna in 2000 because appearantly their youth team is named separately from the full senior squad I'm guessing its like the Real Madrid FC and Real Madrid "B." If anyone knows different please let me know my Swedish translator is not the greatest. One year at the Swedish side was enough to convince Arsenal's famed scouts and at the age of 16 he traded Tunavallen for Highbury in 2001. A young "Gunner," but a gunner none the less Larsson wormed his way to the first team. Six years of learning the Arsenal way to play looked to be paying dividends a regular on the bench was his reward and on the faithful day of the 27th of October 2004 he made his debut of the bench against Manchester City in the completely alien role to him of left back. Young Larsson push on with his North London career and made a mind blowing, heart pumping and jaw breaking further two appearances for Arsenal before being loaned out to Birmingham City in 2006 like a cheap German porno. Aroused by the news the then at the time Birmingham City gaffer Steve Bruce inserted young Sebastian into the right postition where he started to to penetrate the opposition with his crafty balls.LOL. That's enough of the vulgarity. In his loan spell at St. Andrew's he was Birmingham's talisman in a season destined for relegation his six goals in 27 starts was not even to safe the Midlands club from the circus which is the Fizzy Pop League or better known as the Coca-Cola Championship. Impressed by the quality of the Swede the "Brummies," signed the Swede in 2007 from Arsenal for an absolute bargain of one million pound sterling money well spent, Larsson continued to shine and in his 89 apperances as a full Birmingham player he was netted ten times and played an integral role in getting his team back into the promise land which is Premiership in the 2008/09 season.
Internationaly is where Larsson got his break. The Arsenal scouts when they first saw him play, it was for the Underr 21s of Sweden where he made 12 apperances. He made his full national team debut for the Scandinavian side in Feburary 2008 against Turkey but merely booked passage on his nations Euro 2008 qualification but did saw some game time when the tournament rolled around before the Swedes dissappointing exit. To date Seb only has eight caps to his credit.
Alfe Inge Sebastian Larsson has very crafty balls. Had to sneek that in again but seriously I enjoy watching him play my only regret is that I see to far little of him. His accuracy from dead ball situations are superb and it brings me to ask the question, why did Monseiur Arsene Wegner sell and why so cheap? Looking around the Arsenal squad pre Samir Nasri and Andrei Arshavin Larsson would have been the perfect companion in the middle of the pitch for Fabregas, he has good vision and 75% of Beckham's passing accuracy and that is a lot. I personaly thought Wegner got it wrong there but the Professor knows the game better than I do so it seems. Faults I dear you to find one if discovered any leave a comment or call me and lets debate. Seb will be a legend.

Reptile