Daniel Sundgren landed in Israel today (Saturday) and after undergoing medical tests, he is expected to sign with Maccabi Haifa. The 31-year-old Swede has completed a contract with Aris Thessaloniki and will reach the Israeli champions on a free transfer, when he will hold his first training session tomorrow. The defender will take the place of Mikael Alphonse, who played for Maccabi Haifa for about half a season.
Sundgren is the son of former footballer Gary Sundgren – the Spanish ex-Real Zaragoza – who himself was a right-back, scored 32 appearances for the Swedish national team and played in Euro 2000, among other places. Won the championship before leaving for Greece) and some smaller teams in Sweden.
In total, Sundgren has made 90 appearances in the Swedish Premier League, 73 appearances in the Greek Premier League and also one game for the Swedish national team. In addition, he has 21 games in European factories, but with Maccabi Haifa he will play for the first time in the Champions League qualifiers.
Another Swedish player whose name is associated with Maccabi Haifa tonight is striker Alexander Jermaif, who leads the table of conquerors in the senior league in Sweden with 10 goals to the credit of the leader Hacken, in addition to three assists in 10 rounds. The 28-year-old Yarmeif returned to Haken in January 2021 after being sold from her a year and a half earlier to Dynamo Dresden, who loaned him out for several months at Dutch side Twente.
Although a report by the “fotbollskanalen” website states that “a number of teams, including Maccabi Haifa, have expressed a concrete interest” in the striker, Yarmife was also mentioned by quite a few Asian teams and one of them even offered him NIS 3.3 million per season, so if the player does have such an offer , Maccabi Haifa will have a hard time joining.