Henrik Larsson Tells Us The Most Gifted Footballers He's Played With

Henrik Larsson picks his all-star eleven dream team from the players he's played with for club and country.
Henrik Larsson is a Swedish professional football coach, manager, former player and formerly an assistant manager of Barcelona. In this episode, Larsson chooses his European dream team made up of the best footballers of all time that he played with and against throughout his career.
Timecodes:
0:00 Edwin Van Der Sar (Ajax) was the best goalkeeper of all time
0:30 Roland Nilsson (Sweden) and Ronald Koeman (Feyenoord)
1:06 Marc Rieper (Celtic FC)
1:36 Giovanni Van Bronckhorst (Barcelona FC), Xavi (Barcelona FC) and Wayne Rooney (Man United)
2:10 Ludo Moravcik (Celtic FC) and Zlaten Ibrahimovic (Sweden)
3:02 Ronaldinho (Barcelona FC) and Chris Sutton (Celtic FC)
About Henrik Larsson:
Playing as a striker, Larsson began his career with Högaborgs BK. He moved to Feyenoord in November 1993, staying for four years before leaving in 1997. During his time in the Dutch Eredivisie, he won two KNVB Cups with Feyenoord. He also broke into the Swedish national football team and helped them finish in third place at the 1994 World Cup.
Manager Wim Jansen signed Henrik Larsson for Celtic FC in July 1997. Larsson played an important role in Celtic winning their first league title in ten years but later suffered a broken leg in a UEFA Cup tie against Lyon in 1999.
Larsson came back stronger, scoring 53 goals in a 2000-01 season that saw him win the European Golden Shoe. He also helped the team reach the 2003 UEFA Cup Final against Porto, scoring both goals in a 3-2 defeat in extra time. Larsson's 242 goals in 315 matches saw Celtic fans nickname him The King of Kings.
Larsson joined Barcelona in 2004, where he won two league titles and the 2005-06 UEFA Champions League, providing the assists for both goals in the final. Following the expiration of his contract at Barcelona, Larsson returned to Helsingborg, although he also had a brief spell on loan at Manchester United in early 2007. He announced his retirement from football on 20 October 2009.
Larsson played for Sweden in three FIFA World Cups and three UEFA European Championships, winning a bronze medal at the 1994 World Cup, and is a former captain of the national team. He ended his international career with 37 goals in 106 matches.
He also won the Golden Ball (Guldbollen), the annual Award for the best Swedish footballer twice, first in 1998 and again in 2004, while in 2003 he was named the Greatest Swedish Footballer of the Last 50 Years as part of the UEFA Jubilee Awards. He is also the all-time leading goalscorer in the UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup.
In 2010, Larsson began his career as a manager at the Superettan club Landskrona BoIS, where he stayed for three seasons. He later managed Falkenberg in Allsvenskan, and he took over at Helsingborg in 2015, where his son, Jordan was one of his players. Helsingborg was relegated to Superettan in 2016 and Larsson left the club.
Three years later he made a brief return in the same role at the club before moving to Barcelona as assistant to Ronald Koeman from August 2020 until October 2021.