Kennedy Bakircioglu - Free Kick Legend 2014

A film about the Hammarby IF legend Kennedy Bakircioglu, focusing on his free kicks both old and new excluding 2015.

Kennedy Bakircioglü, then 19, first came to Hammarby as a huge talent from Assyriska FF during the 1999 season - Hammarby won a tug of war with several other clubs involved with the man with technique and game-reading out of the ordinary. After he made five fabulous seasons in the green-white sweater and a starring role when Hammarby took the national championship, Kennedy ended up in Greek Iraklis. A year after the move the midfielderwas voted the fourth largest Hammarby profile of all time. There was only one season in Greece, but a little longer sojourns in the Dutch Twente and Ajax, and the northern Spanish Racing Santander. It was also in Holland that he amassed 14 caps for Sweden.

End of time in Cantabria, however, was less successful when the club ended up in hefty turbulence and fell out of La Liga. Kennedy, who had to stay in shape, began training with Hammarby down at Årsta. Just before the summer window close he signed a contract for a return to Hammarby, again in competition with others (and this time much larger) clubs. Autumn appearances became, after a somewhat tentative and match-unfit start, collectively splendid success, including five goals.

Even in 2013 Kennedy decided most matches and was the club's leading scorer with seven goals in his 23 played Superettan rounds. And in 2014 Kennedy accounted an incomparable season, with top scorer victory in Superettan on 17 goals - his sharpest note so far in his career (15 goals became the Twente 2006/07). With seven assists, he also clearly had the most points in the series. Kennedy was the deciding force in quantities of tight matches, and not least he let the free kick foot talk with the series goalkeepers. on his 34th birthday Kennedy crowned by scoring both 1-0 and 2-0 against Jönköping Södra, in the match that decided the top battle. 13 years after the gold Kennedy hence shot his beloved Hammarby back to the big league.