Helsingborgs IF took the lead at Örjans Vall through Loeper in the 32nd minute before Samuel Kroon equalized for HBK seven minutes later. But in the 84th minute, HIF regained the lead through Anthony van den Hurk before Rasmus Karjalainen fixed the final score to 1-3 in the 90th minute.
After 3-2 in the doubles meeting, HIF is again all-Swedish in 2022.
How was the feeling after the final signal?
– It is indescribable. It’s such an out-of-body feeling, you can hardly believe it’s true. We have fought so hard for this all year and for a personal part it feels like the biggest day in one’s career. It is impossible to describe, says Wilhelm Loeper.
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What is it that makes you perform today, after a not entirely straightforward season?
– We have had damn high peaks and a little too deep valleys during the season. We have an extremely high maximum level and this is not least seen today. We have players, a strategy and a group that can easily play at an all-Swedish level. We got it out today, and that is probably what we have been missing in the absolutely critically important matches. Getting it out and getting it right – it just felt so damn nice that we could get all the pieces right today.
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Loeper’s goal was a real treat. With his back to the goal, the right rider lobbed the ball into Brandur Hendriksson’s delicate deep lead pass.
– It is the most beautiful and important goal I have ever made. I have not scored so many goals this year, but I would rather score zero goals in one season and score in a match like this than score 20 in one season, says Loeper.
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– I was just so incredibly happy and proud. After the last match, it has been so fucking hard mentally. You felt that you had to give so damn much for the boys and for the group, for the team and for the city – then you do not manage to get it out and everything was put on its head today. It was the last chance, it felt like proving that we belong in the Allsvenskan. I have longed for this match extremely much and have only hoped to be involved and decide and contribute. I had to do that today.
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Loeper celebrated wildly, pointed to the club badge and ran forward and hugged coach Jörgen Lennartsson at the sideline. Then he pointed up at the sky and fell to the grass. Last week, the Djurgården product told Helsingborgs Dagblad that his mother died in the suites of cancer five years ago.
– It is of course that you want to make your mother proud … you had to do that today. This is the first time I feel really proud to do something good with football actually. It’s unbelievable, I’m so fucking happy and proud, Loeper says as the tears flow.
Wilhelm Loeper was recruited from AFC Eskilstuna before the season and has for the second time in a row won the Superettan’s assist league. But the future looks set to lie in Scania.
– I have said that I really want to play the Allsvenskan with HIF, and I will have to do that next year, says Loeper.
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