Ostersunds FK | On A Mission To Beat Modern Football, Not Just Arsenal

Ostersunds FK vs Arsenal in the Europa League. Can ÖFK, Europe's new giant slayers, do to the Gunners what they did to Galatasaray, Athletic Bilbao, and Hertha Berlin? Win or lose, this is another chapter in this tiny Swedish club's remarkable (& bizarre) fight against modern football. We travelled to Sweden to find out the unique way Österunds have been able to survive.

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[Jay-cxbh]

They just beat Arsenal at the Emirates. Well fucking played

[Travissaur]

Östersund has my respect. Doing something unbelievable is the greatest thing in football to me. Going from 4th division to the 1st division is incredible and THEN to get into Europa and slay teams like Hertha Berlin and Galatasaray. They deserve respect.

[samuellarsson]

3:53 Oh no that ladder is wrong. There is two tiers between "Superettan and Division 3 Norra". Division 1 and Division 2

[rea]

this is literally my favourite video right now... I've watched 3 times back to back and I'm convinced that those 3 dislikes were by accident.

[jimothypersson]

1:22 this guy is now serving a 3 year prison sentence for embezzling money to the club

[Mrchesda]

I hope graham potter can archive may thing in Chelsea just like what he did to the Ostersund.

[axelakerblom]

Well not really. The club was first of all founded in 1996, and after 8 years a swedish millionaire invested in the club. Although it's quite impressive to see what Graham Potter has done with the club, but they shouldnt be recognised as the ones to beat modern football.

[rokshok]

I knew Ostersunds FK was a Cinderella story, but i didn't realise the extent of that story until i watched this. Great video and great club. We all love what Potter is doing at Swansea (despite our American owners very evidently NOT providing him the support and backing, or illustrating they have any understanding of financial prudence or understanding of the game i.e. trying to quick cash in on Daniel James to Leeds). Anyway back to the OSK, inspiring video, hope the success continues and now i seen this i've been made to understand what we have brought into our club with Potter.

[Cupapet]

And in 2018 ostersunds captain's, brwa nouri, moved to Indonesia playing for bali united, and in 2019 we won the league, all i can tell, he is a very generous and smart person, a typical figure of a leader

[hoangkimviet]

Modern football can be beat, but old football can't be beat :0

[Iamshort]

Quality video. I love learning about some of the smaller teams and their history.

[theMad_Artist]

Wow this is an amazing story. Thank you for making this!

[noahmaddox]

They almost came back and beat Arsenal; I’m an arsenal supporter, and it was scary how real a chance they had when they were 2-0 up

[Alaniz]

Great video, keep them coming Pat!!!!

[guluturk]

I’m a Galatasaray fan and I went mental when we got knocked out to ÖFK.

[Weeela]

Rolling up to the game on your snowmobile. Nice. Great video!

[MrFKful]

Now I'm kinda sad they lot against arsenal.

[raidspadel]

Now we understand where they got their fighting spirit.

[copa]

What lesser known club do you support?

[LoxitudeGames]

So yeah, sorry to bust the myth but Östersund is not the good-guy club it is portrayed to be in this video.

1. It is owned by a millionire. Daniel Kindberg owns the biggest realestates company in the region, and he used his private money several occaisons to rescue the clubs economy.

2. Daniel Kindberg sacked the old board and employed his buisness allies. In return Kindberg got important positions in their companies.

3. He has risen the rent for many people through his realestates company, so he can invest more money in the club.

4. They were willing to take money (50 million euros) from Libiya in 2014. It was when Libya was in the height of its civil war with ISIS, and nobody could be sure that the money didnt have any connections with ISIS.

5. Daniel Kindberg (the head chairman) uses aweful tactics to deal with investigating journalists. Local journalist have tried to investigate the connections between his private buisness and Östersunds FK in more detail. As a result the journalist has been banned from all press-conferences and media gatherings.

6. The swedish state agancy for buisness competition has decided that there is clear reason to investigate Östersunds FK, but because of poor budget they cannot do this investigation yet.

Östersunds FK is not on a mission to fight modern football, it IS modern football. Had it not been for the 51%-rule Östersunds FK would be just as any other premier league team.