Drømmeskiftet to Leeds ended up being a downright nightmare for the Swedish landsholdslegende Thomas Brolin.
“If it was someone else who had been treated, as I was, so I do not think that he or she had been alive today. So bad was it.”
It tells the 50-year-old swede, according to the Aftonbladet for Dplay in the programme ‘Superstars at home’, where he opens up about a difficult time in Leeds in the mid-1990s.
Here he was exposed to it, he even calls for voksenmobning, after having written the contract with the previous team in 1995.
He had just changed the lives of the Italian Parma with a life as the most expensive foreigner at that time in English football, but the adventure ended up being a horrible experience for the Swedish superstar.
“I had a long talk with Howard Wilkinson, who was coach at the time, about how he would use me. He believed that he had found the right player. It is hard for me to understand, that you can sit and lie in such a situation. But, unfortunately, he had lied to me, long before we signed the contract. Then the situation was weird,” says Tomas Brolin.
It was not so much playing time in the first season, and since the training was not something, Brolin was accustomed to, he could not help complaining to the team’s coach.
“I felt as if I traveled back in time, when I came to Leeds, in relation to the way they trained on, and the kind of. It said I might to coach. And he was not happy, for in England there is a hierarchy, which must be addressed.”
the Bullying continued, and therefore ended the Swedish footballer to be ill in her first season at the club. Then he was rented out to the swiss Zurich and Parma, before he switched to Crystal Palace to get his career back on an even keel again, but that was never.
Therefore, he stopped when his active career at the age of just 28 years, because he simply had lost the motivation and desire to play soccer:
“I could have continued if I had wanted it.”
Tomas Brolin had its heyday in Italian Parma from 1990 to 1995, where he in the meantime also helped lead Sweden to WORLD championship bronze in 1994.
