watch out euro 2008

sweden coach, lars lagerback, finally made a football decision that makes sense...replacing olof mellberg with freddie ljungberg as captain of the swedish national team ahead of their first post world cup friendly with germany. maybe now they can get past the first knock-out round of an international competition with lagerback.

in a related story, lagerback also named tobias linderoth vice-captain of the squad, replacing the retired henrik larsson.

i guess we will find out how all these changes really work out for the swedes when they begin their euro 2008 qualifying saturday, september 2 when they travel to latvia.