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Swedish national team striker Henrik Larsson will leave the Spanish champions club after the season and return to his homeland. As the club officially announced today, the 34-year-old Swede has signed an eighteen-month contract with the club.
"It is obvious that we are unbelievably happy that we managed to bring Henrik back to Helsingborg," said the team's president Sten-Inge Fredin in the official club statement.
H. Larsson will join the club immediately after the World Cup in Germany, which will end in early July. By then, the Swedish championship will already be underway.
"I have been a fan of Helsingborg since the very beginning. There was no other option for me," said the striker quoted by one of the Swedish television channels.
Last month, H. Larsson himself stated that he would leave the Spanish champions club after the season.
The 34-year-old H. Larsson, who arrived at Barca in 2004 from Glasgow Celtic, missed most of last season due to a serious knee injury, and this year he has to be content with the role of Samuel Eto'o's most productive substitute in the Spanish championship.
