ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Sweden’s Kurdish football club Dalkurd FF suffered a 4-0 loss to IF Brommapojkarna on Sunday in their second league game of the Superettan season.
Brommapojkarna took the lead in the first half when striker Eric Johana Omondi scored in the 19th minute.
Dalkurd were forced into an early change in the 28th minute when captain Rawez Lawan went down injured unable to continue as his team went into the half-time break down 1-0.
Despite enjoying most of the possession in the second half, Dalkurd found themselves 3-0 down when Brommapojkarna’s Alexander Nilsson scored in the 72nd minute before Omondi added a third two minutes later.
Nilsson scored his second of the match and his team’s fourth on 88 minutes to seal the win.
Dalkurd’s next match is at away to J-Södra on April 12 at 8 p.m. Erbil time.
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Based in the Swedish city of Borlänge, Dalkurd was founded on Sept. 26, 2004, by nine Kurdish immigrants as a social project. The club has since built academies in both Sweden and the Kurdistan Region.
The team’s colors are symbolic of Kurdistan, with the Kurdish flag included in the crest on their shirts.
Dalkurd had bull-dozed its way up the ranks of Swedish football since its 2005 introduction in Tier Seven, winning five promotions in its first five seasons.
However, after a string of poor results in Sweden’s top division, Dalkurd were relegated on the last day of the 2018 season, finishing in 15th place with 24 points (6W-6D-18L).