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Markus Rosenberg

Nils Markus Rosenberg (born 27 September 1982) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a forward. He spent the majority of his career with his boyhood club Malmö FF, as well as a notable five-year stint with German Bundesliga side Werder Bremen. Rosenberg served as captain of Malmö from 2015 to 2019. Rosenberg won 33 caps for the Sweden national team, scoring 6 goals, and represented them at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2008, and UEFA Euro 2012.

Rosenberg began his career at hometown club Malmö FF and became the Allsvenskan top scorer while on loan at Halmstads BK during the 2004 season. Rosenberg's Allsvenskan success attracted interest from abroad, and ultimately he ended up playing for football clubs all across Europe, including Werder Bremen in the German Bundesliga, Ajax in the Eredivisie, Racing de Santander in La Liga, and West Bromwich in the English Premier League. After returning to Malmö FF in 2014, Rosenberg scored several key goals in the club's UEFA Champions League run and helped the team win the league title. The following year, Rosenberg once again played a pivotal role in securing consecutive group stage qualifications for Malmö FF in the Champions League. He was also involved in winning two more consecutive league titles in 2016 and 2017, as well as advancing past the 2018–19 and 2019–20 UEFA Europa League group stage levels with Malmö. His second spell at Malmö FF proved to be successful, as he was named the club's greatest footballer in the 21st century.

Malmö FF
Rosenberg began his playing career at Malmö FF at age five, having started to play football at a young age. He was successful in the youth team, where he started playing as a right-back before becoming a striker at age 16. Rosenberg made an impact playing for the club's reserves in the 2000 season, scoring 26 times and earning him promotion to the first team. While progressing through the Malmö FF youth system, he earned a nickname "Sillen", due to "being so small and witty".

2001–2003 seasons
Rosenberg made his league debut on 10 May 2001 against AIK, coming on as a 78th-minute substitute in a 2–0 win. He then made his first start for the side, as they won 1–0 against Hammarby on 26 May 2001. On 2 July 2001, Rosenberg scored his first Malmö FF goal, in a 2–0 win against GIF Sundsvall, However, he struggled to become a first-team regular with strong competition from Niklas Skoog and Peter Ijeh, resulting in him being placed on the substitute bench, as well as, his own injury concern. Despite this, Rosenberg signed a three–year contract with the club. Until the end of the 2001 season, he made 15 appearances scoring once in all competitions.

In the 2002 season Rosenberg found his first-team opportunities limited by strong competition and injury problems. As a result, he found himself playing for the reserve side. But towards the end of the season, Rosenberg made a number of starts for the side. He finished the 2002 season with 13 appearances in all competitions.

Rosenberg started the 2003 season well scoring in the opening match of the season, a 2–0 win against Örebro. On 5 May 2003, he scored his second goal of the season, in a 2–1 loss against Hammarby. On 29 May 2003, in the third round of the Svenska Cupen against IFK Luleå, Rosenberg scored a brace for the side, as they won 4–0. Three months later, on 17 August 2003, Rosenberg scored his third goal of the season, in a 6–0 win against Hammarby. Despite being involved in the first team, Rosenberg mostly featured from the substitute bench and continued to be overshadowed by the likes of Skoog, Ijeh and Andreas Yngvesson. But he often received playing time in absence of Skoog. Rosenberg made his European debut in a 1–0 loss against Sporting CP in the second leg of the UEFA Cup first round, coming on as a substitute in the 62nd minute. Until the end of the 2003 season, Rosenberg went on to make 21 appearances scoring five times in all competitions. Following this, he signed a three–year contract with the club, keeping him until 2006.

Loan to Halmstads BK
When the club purchased strikers Afonso Alves and Igor Sypniewski ahead of the season, Rosenberg opted to go to Halmstads BK on loan in 2004.

Rosenberg quickly made an impact on his Halmstads debut, scoring the club's third goal in a 5–2 win against Örebro in the opening game of the season. After making his debut for the club, he quickly established himself in the starting line–up as a striker. On 25 April 2004, Rosenberg scored his second goal for the club, in a 3–2 win against Helsingborg. After adding three more goals for the next five months, he scored twice for the side, in a 2–2 draw against his parent club, Malmö FF on 14 September 2004. By the end of September, Rosenberg scored five more goals, scoring a brace against Trelleborgs and then a hat-trick against Örebro. A month later, on 25 October 2004, he scored twice for the side, winning 2–1 against Helsingborgs. Playing at Halmstad, he became the top goalscorer of the 2004 season and just missed out on becoming the league champion after Halmstad finished two points behind Malmö. He finished the 2004 season with 29 appearances and 17 goals in all competitions.

2005 season and departure
After his loan spell at Halmstads BK ended, Rosenberg returned to his parent club, Malmö FF, at the start of the 2005 season. He made his return to the starting line–up against IFK Göteborg in the opening game of the season and played the whole game, as they lost 2–1. In the following match against Landskrona BoIS, Rosenberg scored his first goal of the season, in a 1–0 win. On 19 May 2005, he scored his second goal of the season, in a 3–1 win against Landskrona BoIS in the Svenska Cupen. Rosenberg then scored three goals in three consecutive matches between 16 June 2005 and 27 June 2005. After the start of the 2005 season, he retained his first team place and formed a partnership with Afonso Alves. In his last match back in Malmö, he also topped the Royal League 2004–05 scoring list as well as leading Allsvenskan in assists before joining Dutch club Ajax. By the time Rosenberg departed from the club, he had made 13 appearances and scored 5 goals in all competitions.

Ajax

Rosenberg joined Eredivisie side Ajax at the start of the 2005–06 season for a €5.3 million transfer fee. He previously rejected a multi-million contract from Russian side Lokomotiv Moscow, saying: "With such a salary, I could provide for my entire family for several decades. At the same time, money isn't everything. I also want to feel that I come to the right country and the right league."

2005–06 season
Manager Danny Blind showed his faith in Rosenberg by immediately inserting him into the starting 11. He quickly made an impact for Ajax, scoring on his debut, in a 2–2 draw against Brøndby in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League qualifying round. In the return leg, Rosenberg helped the side go through to the group stage with a 3–2 win. He then scored on his Eredivisie debut as well as setting up the club's first goal of the game, in a 2–0 win against RBC Roosendaal in the opening game of the season. A month later, on 27 September 2005 (his 23rd birthday), Rosenberg scored against Arsenal in a 2–1 loss in the UEFA Champions League. As the 2005–06 season progressed, his performances dropped until Blind decided to play in a 4–4–2 system, with Rosenberg and Angelos Charisteas as strikers instead of the 4–3–3 system, with Rosenberg as the only central striker, as was played before. Rosenberg scored four more goals until the end of 2005. With the new system, Ajax were still underachieving in that period, and during the winter break, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar joined them for a €9 million transfer fee. Consequently, Rosenberg was moved from central forward to the left wing in a 4–3–3 the club reverted to. Despite this, he went on to score five consecutive goals between 15 January 2006 and 8 February 2006. A week later, on 19 February 2006 against RBC Roosendaal, he scored twice for the side, in a 6–0 win. Playing in this line-up for the second half of the season, Ajax performed better and were able to reach the newly born Eredivisie play-offs after finishing in the fifth position in the regular competition. In the play-offs, they defeated Feyenoord and Groningen to claim a spot in the Champions League preliminaries for the following season. Ajax also won the KNVB Cup that season. Until the end of the 2005–06 season, Rosenberg went on to make 48 appearances scoring 15 times in all competitions.

2006–07 season and departure

When the 2006–07 season began, Rosenberg played the whole game, as they beat PSV Eindhoven 3–1 to win the Johan Cruyff Shield. However, he was no longer a regular first team player, mostly backing-up Klaas-Jan Huntelaar. He scored three goals in two UEFA Cup appearances against Start. Despite being involved in the first team, Roseneberg still could not take Huntelaar's place as the main striker under new coach Henk ten Cate. By the time Rosenberg departed from Ajax, he had made 14 appearances and scored three goals in all competitions.

Werder Bremen

Having been linked a move away from Ajax, it was announced on 26 January 2007 that Rosenberg moved to Bundesliga club Werder Bremen on a four–year contract, keeping him until 2011 for an undisclosed fee. Upon joining the club, he was given a number nine shirt for the side.

2006–07 spring season
Two days after signing for Werder Bremen, Rosenberg made his debut for the club, coming on as an 83rd-minute substitute, in a 2–0 win against Hannover 96. On 11 March 2007, he scored his first goal for the club, with the back of the head, as they drew 1–1 against Bayern Munich. After adding only two goals in April in Bremen's fight for the Bundesliga title, Rosenberg scored his first hat-trick for the club in a 4–1 win over Hertha BSC on 6 May 2007. Despite setting up the club's only goal of the game against Eintracht Frankfurt on 12 May 2007, the club, however, lost 2–1, thereby putting Werder Bremen out of the title race. In the last game of the season, scored twice in a 2–0 win over VfL Wolfsburg on 19 May 2007. By the end of the 2006–07 season, Rosenberg had scored eight goals in 14 starts in his first Bundesliga season, five of them as a substitute, making him the most effective substitute in the league.

2007–08 season

At the start of the 2007–08 season, Rosenberg's goal scoring form began to dip, leading to criticism from manager Thomas Schaaf, who was not satisfied with his performance in the club's pre–season tour. Despite this, he continued to regain his first team place for the Werder Bremen, appearing in and out of the starting line–up. On 29 September 2007, he scored his first goal of the season as well as setting up the club's eighth goal of the game in an 8–1 win against Arminia Bielefeld. After adding only two goals throughout October, Rosenberg then scored the club's first goal of the game and set up a goal for Boubacar Sanogo, in a 3–2 win over Real Madrid in a UEFA Champions League group stage match on 28 November 2007. He then scored three goals in two matches between 8 December 2007 and 15 December 2007, including a brace against Hannover 96. Rosenberg, once again, scored four goals in three matches between 16 February 2008 and 8 March 2008, including a brace against Borussia Dortmund. Later in the 2007–08 season, he added five more goals, as his further goal scoring form contributed in helping Werder Bremen qualify for the UEFA Champions League next season. At the end of the 2007–08 season, Rosenberg made 42 appearances and scoring 16 times in all competitions, making him Bremen's top goal scorer in the league with 14, ahead of Diego with 13 goals, though he scored 18 in all competitions, himself.

2008–09 season
Rosenberg started the 2008–09 season well when he scored four goals and set up Hugo Almeida twice in a 9–3 win over Eintracht Nordhorn in the first round of the DFB-Pokal on 9 August 2008. Seven days later, on 16 August 2008, Rosenberg scored a brace on his debut of the season in a 2–2 against Arminia Bielefeld. A month later, on 20 September 2008, he scored twice in a 5–2 win over Bayern Munich, marking the first time Bremen defeated Bayern at the Allianz Arena. This was followed up by scoring his ninth goal of the season, in a 2–1 win against Erzgebirge Aue in the second round of the DFB-Pokal. After the start of the 2008–09 season, Rosenberg continued to remain involved in the first team despite the new arrival of Claudio Pizarro. Despite a muscular injury sustained while on international duty, Rosenberg later added two more goals by end of 2008, scoring against Hertha BSC and Inter Milan (despite a 2–1 victory, Werder Bremen were eliminated from the group stage and demoted to the UEFA Cup). On 15 March 2009, Rosenberg scored twice in a 4–0 win over VfB Stuttgart, ending his ten matches without scoring a goal. Despite being sidelined later in the 2008–09 season, he started in the 2009 UEFA Cup Final against Shakhtar Donetsk and played 78 minutes before being substituted, as Werder Bremen went on to lose 2–1 at extra time. While not winning the UEFA Cup, the club, nevertheless, won the DFB-Pokal after beating Bayer Leverkusen 1–0. By the end of the 2008–09 season, he had made 47 appearances scoring 13 times in all competitions, making him the club's third highest goal scorer, behind Claudio Pizarro and Diego. However, his goal scoring form came under criticism, due to performance expectations in the first two seasons at Werder Bremen.

2009–10 season
Ahead of the 2009–10 season, Rosenberg suffered an injury that kept him out of action with knee problems for three months. On 20 September 2009, he made his first appearance of the season, coming on as a 68th-minute substitute, in a 0–0 draw against Bayer Leverkusen. Due to strong competition in the striker position, Rosenberg was placed on the substitutes' bench for large parts of the season. Despite this, he managed to score first and only league goal of the season in a 6–0 win over SC Freiburg on 21 November 2009. Unable to produce goal scoring form, Rosenberg only managed to score three goals in the UEFA Europa League, scoring a brace in a 4–1 win over Nacional and then in a 3–1 win over Athletic Bilbao. Following a poor performance in the Bundesliga against VfL Bochum, Rosenberg was not included in the squad for the subsequent semi-final match of the DFB-Pokal, against FC Augsburg. He subsequently said to German tabloid Bild, "I wasn't the only one to play badly against Bochum. It is not good that I was immediately removed from the squad. I'm frustrated. Obviously, I'm thinking about what happens in the summer. I'm not here to sit in the stands. I want to play football." By the end of the 2009–10 season, Rosenberg had made 24 appearances scoring four times in all competitions.

2010–11 season
Just prior to the 2010–11 season, Rosenberg stated that he wanted to stay with Bremen after being reportedly unhappy over the contract stall. In the second leg of their play-off round of the UEFA Champions League against Sampdoria on 24 August 2010, with Bremen trailing 0–3, Rosenberg scored in injury time helping Bremen to make it into extra time before Claudio Pizarro scored the decisive goal to reach the group stage of the Champions League. This turned out to be his only appearance of the 2010–11 season. It was announced on 31 August 2010 that he signed a one–year contract extension.

Loan to Racing Santander
On the day Rosenberg signed a contract extension with Werder Bremen, he was loaned out to Spanish La Liga club Racing Santander for the rest of the 2010–11 season. Upon joining the club, Rosenberg said it was a dream to play in Spain.

Rosenberg made his debut for Santander in a 1–0 defeat against Valencia on 11 September 2010. Despite suffering from a knee injury, he quickly recovered and came on as a 64th-minute substitute, in a 2–0 win against Real Zaragoza on 19 September 2010. However, in a follow–up match against Getafe, Rosenberg was sent–off after picking up two yellow cards and served a one-match ban. He returned to the starting line–up on 17 October 2010, helping the side win 1–0 against UD Almería. Rosenberg then followed up by scoring his first goal for Santander in a 6–1 defeat to Real Madrid. He scored a brace in another follow–up match, in a 4–1 win against CA Osasuna. After making his debut for the club, Rosenberg quickly became a first team regular for the side, playing in the striker position. He then scored two goals in two matches between 28 November 2010 and 5 December 2010 against Deportivo de La Coruña and Málaga. After serving a two match suspension, Rosenberg returned to the side, coming on as a 60th-minute substitute, in a 1–0 win against Getafe on 20 February 2011. He then scored his fifth goal for the club, in a 3–1 loss against CA Osasuna on 13 March 2011. However, Rosenberg suffered a knee injury while training and was sidelined for two weeks. On 17 April 2011, he returned from injury, coming on as a 56th-minute substitute, in a 2–0 loss against Deportivo de La Coruña. Rosenberg then followed up by scoring two goals in the next two matches, coming against Málaga and RCD Mallorca. He then scored his ninth goal for the club, scoring in a 2–1 win against Atlético Madrid on 10 May 2011. At the end of season, Rosenberg lead the club's scoring chart at nine goals in 35 appearances in all competitions, making him the top scorer. On 23 June 2011, he expressed his wish to continue playing in Europe for a couple of years before finishing his career at his hometown club, Malmö FF.

2011–12 season
Ahead of the 2011–12 season, it was announced that Rosenberg would be returning to Werder Bremen following his loan spell at Racing de Santander. Rosenberg started the season well he scored the club's first goal of the season, losing 2–1 against 1. FC Heidenheim in the first round of the DFB–Pokal. This was followed by scoring a brace in a 2–0 win over 1. FC Kaiserslautern on the opening day of the 2011–12 Bundesliga season. Three weeks later on 27 August 2011, Rosenberg scored his second goal of the season, in a 2–1 win against 1899 Hoffenheim. After the start of the 2011–12 season, Rosenberg regained his first team place, playing in the striker position. He then scored two goals in two matches between 3 December 2011 and 10 December 2011 against Bayern Munich and VfL Wolfsburg. Following this, Rosenberg went three months without scoring a goal and this ended on 11 March 2012 when he scored his sixth goal of the season, in a 3–0 win against Hannover 96. The following month, Rosenberg scored four more goals for the side. By the end of the 2011–12 season, he had made 34 appearances scoring 11 times in all competitions.

It was announced on 3 May 2012 that Werder Bremen opted not to extend Rosenberg's contract. Because of his aerial ability and his strength, Rosenberg was considered a dangerous header of the ball, but he was also dangerous when having the ball at his feet. Rosenberg soon became fan favourite and earned the nickname "Rosi". Rosenberg struggled to perform in the league, but proved to be a very efficient goal scorer in both the European and domestic cups. He established himself in the starting eleven and formed a partnership with strikers such as Hugo Almeida and Boubacar Sanogo.

West Bromwich Albion
On 7 August 2012, Premier League club West Bromwich Albion announced they had secured Rosenberg on a three-year contract. He wore the number 8 for the 2012–13 season.

2012–13 season
Rosenberg made his West Bromwich Albion debut coming on as a 78th-minute substitute in a 1–1 draw against Tottenham Hotspur on 25 August 2012. Four days later, on 29 August 2012, he made his first start for the side, in a 4–2 win against Yeovil Town. However, Rosenberg found his first team opportunities limited, due to strong competition in the striker position and mostly came on as a substitute. Despite this, he played a role of assisting two goals, once coming against Wigan Athletic on 4 May 2013 and another came against Manchester United on 19 May 2013. At the end of the 2012–13 season, Rosenberg played 24 Premier League matches for the club during his first season at the club, but failed to score any goals.

2013–14 season and departure
Ahead of the 2013–14 season, Rosenberg stayed at West Bromwich Albion despite being told that he could leave the club. Amid the transfer speculation, Rosenberg made his first appearance of the season, coming on as an 83rd-minute substitute, in a 1–0 loss against Southampton in the opening game of the season. However, he found his first team opportunities limited once again. As a result, Rosenberg said in October 2013 that he wanted to leave West Bromwich Albion. Having only appeared in four league matches, Rosenberg and the club reached a mutual agreement to terminate his contract on 1 February 2014. When he left West Brom, Rosenberg donated all contents in his house to charity.

Return to Malmö FF

On 1 February 2014, Malmö FF confirmed they had agreed on a three-year contract with Rosenberg, who returned for the first time in nine years. On 3 February 2014, the transfer was confirmed after the medical examination had been performed, and Rosenberg subsequently travelled to Bradenton, Florida, where the club was engaged in a pre-season training camp.

2014 season
Rosenberg made his first appearance after returning to the club and set up the club's goal of the game before suffering an injury in the 13th minute, in a 7–1 win against Degerfors in the Svenska Cupen. After missing one match, he returned in a match against Hammarby in the Svenska Cupen, scoring and setting up the club's third goal in a 3–2 win. Rosenberg scored his first league goal after returning to the club on 7 April 2014 in a 3–0 away win against rivals IFK Göteborg. This was followed up by scoring in a 1–0 win against Gefle. Following the absence of captain Guillermo Molins, he then captained the side for the first time, helping Malmö FF win 1–0 against Mjällby on 22 May 2014. After Molins suffered an injury, it was announced on 1 July 2014 that Rosenberg would be taking over as captain for the rest of the 2014 season. Shortly after, on 6 July 2014, he scored the club's only goal in a 1–1 draw against Brommapojkarna. Rosenberg went on a scoring spree scoring against Kalmar, Falkenbergs, Sparta Prague (twice), IFK Göteborg and Örebro (twice) from 26 July 2014 to 13 August 2014. Around the same month, Rosenberg announced his retirement from the Sweden national team in order to fully concentrate on Malmö FF, having become a first team regular back at the club. The following day, he scored a brace as Malmö FF defeated Red Bull Salzburg in a 3–0 win to qualify for the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League. Rosenberg, once again, went on a scoring spree when he scored against Mjällby, Olympiacos (thereby securing Malmö's first win in the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League), AIK, Elfsborg and Brommapojkarna. He then scored his UEFA Champions League goal of the season, on matchday 6, losing 4–2 against Olympiacos. Overall, Rosenberg scored 15 goals and made 14 assists in the league, proving to be a vital part of the team as they defended their league title. This was also the first time in Rosenberg's career he won a league title. With 15 league goals and 24 goals in all competitions, 2014 became Rosenberg's most successful season to date in terms of goals. After the successful season, Rosenberg was named Allsvenskan Forward of the Year and Allsvenskan Most Valuable Player of the Year. He was also nominated for Swedish Forward of the Year at Fotbollsgalan.

2015 season
Ahead of the 2015 season, it was announced that Rosenberg was the new captain for Malmö FF, succeeding Molins. Rosenberg started the season well scoring two goals in the four Svenska Cupen matches. In a 4–1 win against GIF Sundsvall in the opening game of the season, he scored and set up the club's second goal of the game. Having been linked a move away from Malmö FF earlier in the season, Rosenberg put the transfer rumours aside when he signed a contract extension with the side, keeping him until 2017. From the start of the 2015 season, Rosenberg retained his first team place as well as his captaincy of the side. He only scored two goals in the next three months, which came against Hammarby on 20 April 2015 and another came against Åtvidabergs on 31 May 2015. Between mid–July and August, Rosenberg began a goal scoring spree, adding eight goals to his tally. One of the goals came in Malmö's 3–0 return leg win over Red Bull Salzburg in the third qualifying round for the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League on 5 August 2015. Thanks to an aggregate score of 3–2, Malmö eliminated Salzburg for the second successive season, contributing to Salzburg's run of eight unsuccessful attempts to qualify for the Champions League since being purchased by the Red Bull company in 2005. In their home match on 25 August 2015, Rosenberg scored the first goal as Malmö defeated Celtic 2–0, winning 4–3 on aggregate and thereby qualifying for the Champions League group stage for the second consecutive year. He later scored four more goals later in the 2015 season, including a brace against Kalmar on 17 October 2015. After serving a one-match suspension, Rosenberg returned to the starting line-up in the last game of the season against IFK Norrköping, only to be sent off in the 5th minute of the match, as Malmö lost 2–0. Malmö FF were unable to follow up their success in European qualifying with a league title in 2015, disappointingly finishing in fifth place. Having been out of the first team on three occasions during the 2015 season,  Rosenberg finished the season with 42 appearances and 16 goals in all competitions.

2016 season

At the start of the 2016 season, Rosenberg kept his first team place as well as his captaincy of the side. He scored his first goals of the season in a 3–2 win against Kalmar in the semi–finals of the Svenska Cupen to send Malmö FF through to the final. Rosenberg then scored the club's only goal in a 1–0 win against Elfsborg on 18 April 2016. After missing one match due to a thigh injury, he returned to the first team in a match against BK Häcken on 1 May 2016, coming on as a 70th-minute substitute, but was sent off in the last minutes for an unprofessional foul. While serving a two-match suspension in the league, Rosenberg started in the Svenska Cupen Final against BK Häcken and scored the opening goal of the game before being substituted in the 64th minute, as Malmö FF lost 6–5 in a penalty shoot–out following a 2–2 draw. After the suspension, he returned to the first team, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 3–2 win against Hammarby on 18 May 2016. Rosenberg followed up by scoring in the next two matches, against Falkenbergs and Östersunds. On 1 August 2016, he scored his seventh goal of the season, in a 3–0 win against Örebro. A month later, on 12 September 2016, Rosenberg scored twice for the side, as Malmö FF won 3–1 against IFK Göteborg. However, during a 2–0 win against Helsingborgs on 25 September 2016, he suffered a groin injury and was substituted in the 39th minute, leading him to be out for a month. With Rosenberg sidelined, the club was able to bounce back and Rosenberg won his second league title with Malmö FF after beating Falkenbergs 3–0 on 26 October 2016. In the last game of the season against Hammarby, he returned from injury, coming on as a 71st-minute substitute in a 3–0 win. By the end of the 2016 season, Rosenberg had made 28 appearances scoring 11 times in all competitions.

2017 season
At the start of the 2017 season, Rosenberg retained his first team place as well as his captaincy of the side. He scored his first goal of the season, scoring the club's second goal of a 2–0 win against GIF Sundsvall on 11 April 2017. Rosenberg then scored three more goals throughout May. However, during a 3–2 win against AFC Eskilstuna on 1 July 2017, he suffered an injury and was substituted in the 10th minute. As a result, Rosenberg was sidelined for three weeks. On 17 July 2017, he returned to the starting line-up in the return leg of the UEFA Champions League second round against FK Vardar, scoring the club's only goal of the game, as they lost 3–1, thereby being eliminated from the tournament. During a 1–0 win against Djurgården on 7 August 2017, Rosenberg received a straight red card in the 86th minute for an unprofessional foul. After serving a two-match suspension, he scored his sixth goal of the season, in a 2–2 draw against IFK Göteborg on 27 August 2017. Following this, it was announced that Rosenberg had signed a one–year contract extension with the club. After serving another suspension, Rosenberg returned to the starting line-up and scored in the next two matches against Elfsborg and Halmstads. In a follow–up win against IFK Norrköping, he helped the side win the league title with Malmö FF three matchdays before the end of the season. Rosenberg finished the 2017 season with 25 appearances and 8 goals in all competitions.

2018 season
At the start of the 2018 season, Rosenberg kept his first team place as well as his captaincy of the side. Rosenberg started the season well when he scored his first goal of the season, in a 1–0 win against Dalkurd in the Svenska Cupen match. Two weeks later on 6 March 2018, Rosenberg reached a milestone in his Malmö FF career when he scored twice to add up his tally to 101 goals in his time at the club, in a 2–2 draw against FC Nordsjælland in a friendly match. Rosenberg then scored three more goals throughout April, including a brace against Brommapojkarna on 23 April 2018. In the Svenska Cupen Final against Djurgården, he captained and started in the match, as the side lost 3–0. His goal scoring spree continued throughout July, scoring five times despite missing one match through suspension along the way. He helped Malmö FF advance past the 2018–19 group stage after scoring in both legs in a 4–2 win on aggregate against FC Midtjylland. Rosenberg then scored four more goals in the following two months. He scored two goals in two matches in the remaining two league matches of the season against IFK Göteborg and Elfsborg. Until the end of the 2018 season, Rosenberg went on to make 46 appearances and scoring 19 times in all competitions. It was announced on 9 November 2018 that he had signed another one–year contract extension.

2019 season and retirement
At the start of the 2019 season, Rosenberg retained his first team place as well as his captaincy of the side. On 14 April 2019, he scored his first goal of the season and set up the club's first goal in a 2–0 win against Östersunds. A week later, on 22 April 2019, Rosenberg scored his second goal of the season, in a 4–1 win against Hammarby. He then scored two consecutive braces between 5 May 2019 and 12 May 2019, in wins against Falkenbergs and Elfsborg. On 30 June 2019, Rosenberg said he was going to retire from professional football at the end of the 2019 season. He then scored a hat–trick and set up the club's sixth goal in a 7–0 win against Ballymena United in the first leg of the UEFA Europa League first round. Rosenberg, once again, helped Malmö FF advance past the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League group stages, having scored two more goals in the play–offs round. Shortly after the club's qualification to the Group Stage qualification, he scored twice, in a 5–0 win against Kalmar. Rosenberg later scored two more goals in the following two months. In the last game of the season against Örebro, he scored twice in a 5–0 win; Malmö FF finished second place in the league trailing league winners Djurgården by one point. In his last ever home game for Malmö FF, Rosenberg scored two goals in a 4–3 Europa League win against Dynamo Kyiv including the game-winning 4–3 goal in the 96th minute. Prior to the match, he was given a lap of honour with his former teammates and managers attending his last home match at the Stadion. In addition, Rosenberg had his bronze shoes placed at the stadium as for his contributions, dedication and commitment to Malmö FF. He finished the 2019 season with 42 appearances and 21 goals in all competitions.

Post-playing career
Shortly after announcing his retirement from professional football, Rosenberg pursued a new career by becoming a football agent alongside former teammate Behrang Safari.

In 2018, Rosenberg opened a padel center, Padelcourt No 9, in the Swedish town Höllviken.

Sweden U21
In February 2002, Rosenberg was called up to the Sweden U21 squad for the first time. He made his Sweden U21 debut coming on as a second-half substitute in a 3–0 loss against Greece U21 on 13 February 2002.

Two years later, Rosenberg was called up to the Sweden U21 squad for the UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Germany. He scored his first goals of the tournament, in a 3–1 win against Switzerland U21 on 2 June 2004. In the semi–finals against Serbia and Montenegro U21, Rosenberg was one of five Swedish players to successfully convert the shootout, as they lost 6–5 on penalties following a 1–1 draw through extra time. Three days later in the semi–finals against Portugal U21, he scored the national side's second goal of the game, as Sweden U21 lost 3–2 after extra time, thereby finishing fourth place in the tournament. Rosenberg made nine appearances scoring three times for the U21 side.

Sweden

In December 2004, Rosenberg was called up to the Sweden national team for the first time in his career. He made his debut in a match against South Korea on 22 January 2005. Later in the year, he scored two more international goals for Sweden.

On 9 May 2006, it was announced that Rosenberg had been chosen to be in the Sweden squad for the FIFA World Cup. He was featured on the substitute bench and did not play a single match throughout the 2006 World Cup finals, as Sweden were knocked out in the round of 16 by Germany. Despite this, Rosenberg then scored his fourth international goal in a 3–1 win against Liechtenstein on 6 September 2006.

In the Euro 2008 qualifier fan attack, Rosenberg was punched in the stomach by Christian Poulsen. Sweden was given a penalty kick as a result of Poulsen's punch, which resulted in a Danish supporter attacking the referee and the match being abandoned, with Sweden being awarded a default victory by UEFA. Four days after the incident, he scored and then set up Sweden's fifth goal in a 5–0 win against Iceland. Three months later, on 12 September 2007, Rosenberg scored his sixth international goal for the national side, in a 2–1 win against Montenegro. After Sweden qualified for the UEFA Euro 2008, he was chosen to be in the Sweden squad in May 2008. Rosenberg played two times in the tournament, as they were eliminated in the group stage. His performance in the tournament received criticism. For the next two years, he made six more international appearance for Sweden.

After a two-year absence from the squad, Rosenberg was called up to the Sweden squad, appearing as an unused substitute against Moldova on 29 March 2011. In May 2012, he was called up to the Euro 2012 squad. Prior to the start of the tournament, Rosenberg made his first Sweden appearance in three years, starting a match and playing 45 minutes before being substituted at half time, in a 3–2 win against Iceland on 30 May 2012. He later made two appearances in the tournament, as they were eliminated in the group stage once again. Following the Euro 2012, Rosenberg lost his place with the national team. After a successful season in 2014, he was once again eyed by Sweden head coach Erik Hamrén, but chose to declare his retirement from international football to focus on his club career at Malmö FF. In total, he made 33 appearances and scored six goals for Sweden before retiring from international duty in August 2014.

Personal life
Rosenberg was born in Malmö, Sweden, to father, Paul, self-employed salesman and mother Marie. He has two younger siblings, Patrick and Linda. Rosenberg revealed that his family often moved a lot around the areas of Malmö.

Rosenberg attended Geijerskolan during primary school, then at Munkhätteskolan during the fourth and fifth grade and Tångvallaskolan during the sixth and ninth grade. Rosenberg then attended Malmö Borgarskola and studied at a football gymnasium, where he earned a top honour as the best student.

Rosenberg is married to Maria, and together, they have two children. During his playing career, his agent was Martin Dahlin.

On 25 February 2019, Rosenberg was awarded the "Andreas Nilsson Memorial Award 2019 for his many years of commitment as a player and team captain at "Malmö FF". In June 2018, he opened "Padelcourt No 9", a paddle center in Höllviken.

International

 * Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Rosenberg goal.

Honours
Ajax
 * KNVB Cup: 2005–06
 * Johan Cruyff Shield: 2006

Werder Bremen
 * DFB-Pokal: 2008–09

Malmö FF
 * Allsvenskan: 2014, 2016, 2017
 * Svenska Supercupen: 2014

Individual
 * Allsvenskan Top goalscorer: 2004
 * Allsvenskan Forward of the year: 2014
 * Allsvenskan Player of the Year: 2014
 * Allsvenskan Top assist provider: 2014

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I have observed a formatting problem with this template. As can be seen in the screenshot, the letters of the text to the left appear glued to the border of the box - to my eyes, this looks kind of ugly. The problem occurs both in Firefox and Opera, it not as strikingly in Internet Explorer, where it is noticable, but still acceptable. I have tried various things with the template to get rid of this effect, but to no avail. Maybe someone with more knowledge of wiki syntax would like to look into this some time? --Thorsten1 19:27, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Problem solved. Halibutt 19:42, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

 * Great, thanks a lot! I actually tried changing various parameters, including this one (or so I think), but it didn't work... --Thorsten1 20:21, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Template width and general appearance
Halibutt, regarding your edit of 31 May - I like the smaller, less obtrusive bullets and admit that your version is overall sleeker. However, due to the longish full names of the parties each occupying a line of their own, I feel that the template is now definitely too wide. 290 pixels are way too much, considering that all articles with this template in them will also contain the Politics of Poland box, and some people are still using screen widths of 800 pixels or less. Something needs to be done here. In my opinion, there are only two options: Either we restrict ourselves to the parties' acronmys, leaving it to the individual party articles to cite their names in full; or we break up the party names into two lines. Personally, I would go for the second option. For the time being, I'm going set the fixed width to 200 pixels. I am aware that the look can still be improved. --Thorsten1 21:42, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, generally such infoboxes are 300px wide, but I agree that this thingie could be made a little smaller. On the other hand, now that we have the "politics of Poland" template, we could as well delete this one and simply turn it into a category... Halibutt 21:25, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

 * First, it's good to see you returned to useful editing, even though I do feel slightly uneasy about your new Black Book, to put it mildly. I'm probably going to end up there sooner or later...
 * Anyway, I think that the party templates have to be less than 300px wide because they complement the "politics of Poland" template on the other side. If these boxes are too wide, the actual article text tends to get squashed between them, especially with screen widths of 800 pixels and less or when the browser window is not maximised.
 * I do not agree at all with your idea to replace the party templates with categories. The post-1989 Polish party landscape is constantly evolving, to put it nicely. Less nicely, it is extremely confusing, not only for non-Poles, by the way; I wouldn't be surprised at all if there were Polish politicians who do not even remember all the parties, coalitions, or electoral committees they belonged to over the years. Some kind of Ariadne's thread is sorely needed to find a way through this labyrinth, especially as with the Sejm election drawing nearer, there is bound to be an increased interest in articles on Polish politics in Wikipedia. "Politics of Poland" includes all parties that currently have a realistic chance of entering the Sejm, but it does not show the historical dimension, which is very important in a party landscape as unstable as Poland's.
 * Let's assume that an uninitiated reader is wondering what the difference is between the Social Democracy of Poland and the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland; or between the Unia Wolno& and the Unia Demokratyczna. The timeline templates allow for instant orientation in such cases, even if they cannot cover all related parties, account for all changes of affiliation, and inevitably ignore overlaps between the socialist/social-democratic, liberal and conservative fields. (Btw, the conservative field is the most complex of them - I'm still figuring out which parties to include and which to leave out.) Categories can be a useful extra, also for absorbing parties that are/were too small to justify a mention on a party timeline template - but they are not a good substitute. --Thorsten1 18:49, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Prema Sai Baba
non notable 198.214.51.1 19:30, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep for now. This article DOES need to be re-written however to make it less about an event that has yet to happen and more about the prediction made and its social consequenes which seem notable. -CunningLinguist 22:35, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Cunninglinguist, I don't think that anybody has written about the social consequences of the prediction so I cannot write about them in Wikipedia. I found something that can be added Andries 08:47, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Merge with Sathya Sai Baba, possibly under "teachings" --Xcali 23:58, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and Redirect per Xcali. Alone, this is crystal ball and rumor stuff, but contained in the parent, it would be a coherent part of a faith.  -- Un  focused  04:15, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Anon is placing numerous articles in VfD. Seems a POV warrior causing troll havoc.≈ jossi ≈ 04:44, May 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Abstain Reasons for keeping are
 * There is a problem with so many Sai Baba's that is likely to confuse the readers. There are several other persons who call themselves Sai Baba i.e. Bala Sai Baba, Sai Baba, Sathya Sai Baba, Prema Sai Baba. And somehow this should be made clear to the readers quickly and I think this article helps with this. I created this article because one editor was confused about the different Sai Babas. It does not bother me when this article is merged into Beliefs and practices in the Sathya Sai Organisation
 * I cannot merge this with teaching and at the same time write about social aspects. Andries 08:47, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

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Noel Field

Noel Haviland Field (23 January 1904 – 12 September 1970) was an American diplomat who was accused of being a spy for the NKVD. His name was used as a prosecuting rationale during the 1949 Rajk show trial in Hungary, as well as the 1952 Slánský show trial in Czechoslovakia. Much controversy surrounds the Field story. In 2015, the historian David Talbot reignited claims that Field was set up by Allen Dulles in order to create paranoia designed to undermine the Soviet Union.

During World War II, Field worked in France and Switzerland to support Jewish and anti-fascist refugees. During this time, he also had contact with the U.S. intelligence service OSS. Arrested in Prague in 1949 by the Czechoslovak secret police, handed over to the Hungarian secret police and subsequently imprisoned in Hungary, he served as the pretext for show trials of Communist functionaries in Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Hungary, where it was claimed that he had served as their American spymaster. The purpose of the show trials was to replace indigenous communist party members with others more aligned with Moscow. After his release in 1954, he stayed in Budapest.

Early life
Field was born in south London in 1904, the first son of Brooklyn-born zoologist Herbert Haviland Field, who directed an international scientific bibliographical institute in Zürich, and his English wife. After Herbert Field's death in 1921, his wife took Noel Field, his brother Hermann, and two sisters to the U.S., where the boys attended Harvard University. Upon completion of his studies, Noel married his childhood sweetheart from Switzerland, Herta Katharina Vieser.

Career
Noel Field began his career at the State Department in the late 1920s. In the 1930s, he was an antifascist and sympathised with Soviet peace initiatives, as did many Western progressives at the time. In 1933 (1934 per Hede Massing's later testimony), Field met the German anti-Nazis Paul and Hede Massing, who had come to the U.S. from Moscow to build a network of Soviet agents among influential left-wing circles. Marguerite Young recommended Field to Massing.

Peter Gutzeit, the Soviet Consul in New York City, was also an officer in the Soviet NKVD which was tasked with espionage. In 1934 he identified Noel Field and his friend, Laurence Duggan, as future Soviet spies. Gutzeit wrote on 3 October 1934, that Duggan "is interesting to us because through him one will be able to find a way toward Noel Field... of the State Department's European Department with whom Duggan is friendly." Iskhak Akhmerov decided that Boris Bazarov should be the one to work with Hede Massing on this project.

In 1935, Hede Massing, who was an NKVD operative, tried to sign Field up for the NKVD. Field agreed to work for the NKVD. However, in 1936, Field accepted a post in Geneva with the League of Nations. Massing arranged for Field to make contact with Ignatz Reiss and Walter Krivitsky, who was in charge of Soviet intelligence in Switzerland. Based on this account, recent biographer Tony Sharp has determined that Field engaged in espionage for about a year in 1935.

Field was deeply moved by the Spanish Civil War and became involved in efforts to aid victims and opponents of fascism. As a League of Nations representative in Spain from 1938 to 1939, Field helped to repatriate foreign participants from the Republican side. During the Civil War, Noel Field and his wife Herta became friendly with a German medical doctor named Glaser who worked in a hospital attached to the International Brigade. When the Brigade retreated during the final collapse of the Loyalist forces, Glaser's daughter, Erica, became ill and was separated from her parents. The Fields found her in a receiving camp on the French-Spanish border and brought her with them to Switzerland, where they treated her as their own child. They intended to reunite her with her parents who had fled to England, but the outbreak of World War II in September 1939 made that difficult, and Erica became a permanent member of the Field home, in effect their foster child.

World War II

In October 1940, Field resigned his post in Geneva and in 1941 became director of the American Unitarian Universalist Service Committee's relief mission in Marseilles, providing relief for endangered Jewish refugees including antifascists and leftists, and helping many to flee to Switzerland. Field began a major collaboration with the Organization to Save the Children (OSE), a French Jewish humanitarian organization, and its Marseilles director, Joseph Weill. The two organizations later shared the same offices in Marseilles and Noel Field, with help from his wife, set up kindergartens in the Camp de Rivesaltes. The Fields worked with a number of French Jewish women and collaborated with OSE to liberate Jewish children from French internment camps both openly if possible and covertly if the camp director would not cooperate. Also beginning in early 1941, Noel Field established an extensive medical program to provide aid to Jewish refugees in hiding, those waiting to emigrate, or those held in internment camps. Drawing on the medical expertise of some of the Jewish refugees, Field developed a team of about 20 medical doctors, dentists, and nurses, some with international reputations. From his contacts in Switzerland, he acquired medicines and nutritional supplements that were extraordinarily hard to obtain. With the American Friends Service Committee, and his lead doctor, Rene Zimmer, Field implemented a nutritional survey of many thousands of the refugees interned in French camps and provided additional food for those in greatest need.

During this period, Field worked with the Nîmes Committee, a network of about 30 relief organizations in Vichy France, and maintained congenial ties with Varian Fry and other relief workers who viewed him as a dedicated humanitarian who seemed to be working himself into exhaustion and nervous collapse. Field developed a roster of several hundred refugees whom he attempted to help emigrate. Unlike some members of the Unitarian Service Committee and Fry, Field did not face hostility from the staff at the U.S. Embassy in Marseilles for his activities, possibly because he sent many of his refugee clients to Switzerland, rather than to the U.S. In 1942, Robert Dexter, director of the Unitarian Service Committee, recruited Field to pass information to the U.S. intelligence service Office of Strategic Services (OSS). When the Germans occupied the rest of France in November 1942, the Fields escaped from Marseilles and re-established a refugee program in Geneva. In 1944, Field returned to southern France, traveling with the French guerrilla, the Maquis, and with the approval of Allen Dulles before the area was fully liberated. He arranged for a colleague, Herta Tempi, to establish a small office in Paris as a relief project for the Unitarian Service Committee.

In his relief activities, Field came into contact with a number of communist and antifascist refugees and exiles from Germany and elsewhere and used his position to relay information to various groups. During the war years, Field, based in Switzerland, continued to work on behalf of refugees, including antifascists and communists who, after the war, would assume positions of power in Eastern Europe. Field served Allen Dulles, then head of the OSS and later of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as liaison to Communist resistance fighters when they were needed for OSS operations. Dulles had first met Field in Zürich in 1918 at the home of Field's father. The two had often seen each other in Washington D.C. when both worked at the State Department. Dulles hoped Field could use his Communist connections in Switzerland and Germany to shed light on Stalin's postwar objectives in Europe.

Post-war arrests
On 3 August 1948, Whittaker Chambers appeared under subpoena before HUAC. Among the former Federal officials in Washington, DC, whom he named as Soviet spies was Alger Hiss. Hiss warned Field in letters that he should not return to the United States. Two months later, as this affair distilled down to the Hiss(-Chambers) Case, Chambers named Field, whose name appeared in newspapers on 15 October 1948. Field's double-life ended effectively that day.

Between March and May 1949, Field moved from Switzerland to Prague, in Communist Czechoslovakia and Franz Dahlem helped him obtain asylum.

Arrest of Noel Field
On 11 May 1949, Field walked out of his hotel accompanied by two unidentified men. He left his papers, luggage, and traveller's cheques in his room as if he expected to return.

Arrest of Herta Field
Field's wife Herta became increasingly worried about the lack of word from Field. She believed her husband had been kidnapped by the CIA in connection with the Massing and Hiss cases. In the hope of getting information from Czechoslovak authorities, she traveled to Prague and met with members of the StB, the country's secret police. She described her husband's involvement with Soviet intelligence to them. Her account matched Field's confession to the Hungarian secret police (ÁVH), which had been made available to the Czechoslovaks. On 28 August 1949, in Bratislava, she was handed over to the Hungarians, who arrested her and took her to Budapest.

Arrest of Hermann Field
Meanwhile, Field's brother Hermann wrote to two Polish friends, Mela Granowska and Helena Syrkus, and asked for help getting a visa to visit Warsaw. The two women passed the letter on to the Polish secret police, the Bezpieka, whence they were ordered to ensure that Hermann traveled to Warsaw, where he was arrested while on his way to the airport to leave the country. Like his brother, Noel, Hermann had for a time worked to help endangered refugees and had shown a preference for communists and antifascists. In 1939, Hermann had served in the Kraków office of the Czechoslovak Refugee Trust Fund to help persecuted refugees, who were preponderantly Jewish, to emigrate to Great Britain.

Arrest of Erica Wallach
After the war, the Fields' adopted daughter Erica moved to the American Zone of occupied Germany and got a job with the American Office of Strategic Services. She left to join the postwar German Communist Party and worked as secretary to the communist representatives in the Hesse state legislature. She met and fell in love with U.S. Army Captain Robert Wallach. When her party superiors objected to the relationship, Erica broke her connections with the party and the couple moved to Paris. In 1947, she was refused admission to the U.S. because of her communist past. In June 1950, Erica decided to search for the Fields, her foster parents. From Paris, she called on Leo Bauer, an old friend from the Swiss exile group, then editor-in-chief of East German radio. The call was monitored by the Soviet Ministry for Internal Affairs, and Bauer's Soviet superior ordered him to invite Erica to East Berlin, where she was arrested. Erich Mielke at one point offered her immediate release if she revealed the members of her spy network. She was condemned to death by a Soviet military court in Berlin and shipped to Moscow's Lubianka prison for execution. After Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, her sentence was reduced to hard labor in Vorkuta, north of the Arctic Circle. She was released in October 1955 by Khrushchev

Show trials
Noel Field had in fact been arrested – reportedly on the personal order of Lavrenti Beria – and had been handed over to the Hungarian authorities, who began to prepare the trial of László Rajk, the first of the postwar Eastern European show trials. The trial was held in September 1949, its premise being that Field and his agents had worked to undermine the development of indigenous resistance, especially in Germany, to strengthen the Western influence and create a divided postwar Germany. "Noel Field," stated the prosecutor was "one of the leaders of American espionage," who "specialized in recruiting spies from among left-wing elements." Field was tortured and held in solitary confinement for five years, often at the edge of death. A matter of interest to students of the Cold War came to light years later when records from Field's interrogations were found in the Hungarian Interior Ministry archives. In those records Field named U.S. government official Alger Hiss as a fellow Communist spy: "Interrogator: What was the essential point of the Alger Hiss case? Field: In the Fall of 1935, Hiss requested that I undertake intelligence work for the Soviet Union... I informed him that I was already conducting such work. Interrogator: So you revealed to Alger Hiss that you did intelligence work for the Soviet Union? Field: Yes."

In East Germany, in August 1950, six Communist functionaries, including Willi Kreikemeyer, the director of East zone railroads, and the boss of Radio Berlin, were accused of "special connections with Noel Field, the American spy." All were either imprisoned or executed.

In Czechoslovakia, in November 1952, Rudolf Slánský, the Secretary General of the Communist Party, and 13 highly placed co-defendants confessed to high treason, conspiracy, murder, espionage, Titoism, and Zionism on behalf of "foreign imperialist agents." "The well-known agent Field" was named as their spymaster.

Release of the Fields
No trial of the Fields themselves was ever held. Noel, Herta, and Hermann Field were released in October 1954. Hermann returned to America, later publishing an account of the case, "Trapped in the Cold War: The Ordeal of an American Family". Noel and Herta Field, however, opted to settle in Budapest, where, despite the torture inflicted on them, they did not condemn the Communist regime, leading some to dub them apologists. In Field's own words, written while he was imprisoned: "My accusers essentially have the same convictions that I do, they hate the same things and the same people I hate – the conscious enemies of socialism, the fascists, the renegades, the traitors. Given their belief in my guilt, I cannot blame them. I cannot but approve their detestation. That is the real horror of it all."

- Mainstream magazine, Jan. 1961 Historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., who had blocked Field's bid for OSS funds for a German communist front group during World War II, later commented, "Field's simple-mindedness was indestructible".

In October 1955, Erica Glaser Wallach was released from Vorkuta, the Soviet labour camp, under an amnesty declared by Nikita Khrushchev that year but was unable to join her husband and daughters in the U.S. because of the State Department's concern over her earlier Communist Party membership. It took the personal intervention of Allen Dulles to reunite her with her family in 1957. Her account of her experiences, "Light at Midnight", was published in 1967.

Hypotheses regarding Field's role in the show trials
Field was ideally suited to the Communists' show trials; he had known and assisted many highly placed officials, including resistance fighters and members of the Spanish International Brigades with whom he had maintained contact after the war. In addition, he had contact with Allen Dulles which allowed the Communists to construct a scenario of cooperation with the U.S. directed against the Soviet bloc. It could even be argued that Field had turned his friends into a spy network penetrating Central Europe. Moscow could thus counteract the ongoing uncovering of its own network in the U.S. with the bogus uncovering of an extensive network of American spies headed by the same Field whom the U.S. had charged with being a Soviet agent.

The journalist Drew Pearson maintained that the Soviets, encountering resistance to demands for grain and for military support from nationalist Communist leaders in Eastern Europe who had spent the war outside the USSR, used the myth of a Field-led spy network to purge them all. Pearson speculated that Field was arrested and incarcerated to prevent him from discrediting the trumped-up charges of disloyalty.

It has been suggested that Allen Dulles, informed that Noel Field was on his way to Prague, saw an irresistible opportunity to create havoc among his Cold War adversaries and lit the fuse by instructing Józef Światło, his Polish agent within East European counterintelligence, to alert his colleagues to the impending arrival of Dulles's master spy, coming now to activate the network of traitors he had put in place during the war years. However, it is more likely that CIA officials saw a chance to sow discord once the Fields had been arrested and fanned the blaze of paranoia and Stalinist terror. It is undisputed that Allen Dulles was delighted by the chaos caused by the Field case and did not express any sympathy for the plight of the Fields or the harsh treatment they received. He even refused all efforts by Field's sister Elsie to help rescue Noel and Herta.

Later life
Noel Field remained a staunch communist; his final testament, written in Budapest and published in an American political journal, was entitled "Hitching Our Wagon to a Star."

Noel Field died in 1970, and his wife Herta in 1980.

His story became the subject of a 1997 documentary by the Swiss film producer Werner Schweizer, Noel Field - Der erfundene Spion (Noel Field, the Fictitious Spy).

Works
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External sources
Biographies:

Other:
 * Schmidt, Maria (December 2004) "Noel Field—The American Communist at the Center of Stalin's East European Purge: From the Hungarian Archives," American Communist History, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 215-245, American Communist History . Retrieved 1 December 2019.
 * Schmidt, Maria (December 2004) "Noel Field—The American Communist at the Center of Stalin's East European Purge: From the Hungarian Archives," American Communist History, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 215-245, American Communist History . Retrieved 1 December 2019.
 * Schmidt, Maria (December 2004) "Noel Field—The American Communist at the Center of Stalin's East European Purge: From the Hungarian Archives," American Communist History, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 215-245, American Communist History . Retrieved 1 December 2019.
 * Schmidt, Maria (December 2004) "Noel Field—The American Communist at the Center of Stalin's East European Purge: From the Hungarian Archives," American Communist History, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 215-245, American Communist History . Retrieved 1 December 2019.
 * Schmidt, Maria (December 2004) "Noel Field—The American Communist at the Center of Stalin's East European Purge: From the Hungarian Archives," American Communist History, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 215-245, American Communist History . Retrieved 1 December 2019.

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Spanner Films

Spanner Films is a small London-based documentary company founded by film director Franny Armstrong in 1997.

Productions
The company's earliest production was McLibel (1997/2005), a documentary film about David Morris and Helen Steel, a postman and a gardener, who took on McDonald's and won the case, with courtroom reconstructions by Ken Loach. Drowned Out (2002) follows an Indian family who decide to stay at home and drown rather than make way for the Narmada Dam.

The Age of Stupid, a drama-documentary-animation hybrid film about anthropogenic climate change, was released in 2009. The film was crowd funded via a bespoke website which raised £1.5m.

Pie Net Zero, a comedic short film about climate change and biosequestration efforts in South West England written by Armstrong and comedian Tom Walker and featuring Walker’s character Jonathan Pie, was released in 2020.

Future productions
In March 2014 Spanner Films announced their new project Undercovers, a television drama series about the undercover police officers who infiltrated the British activist scene for 50 years, and the women who unknowingly had long term relationships and children with the spies. The series is being written by Simon Beaufoy, Alice Nutter, and Franny Armstrong, and executive produced by Tony Garnett.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Skull cap

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Skull cap
This was apparently transwikied to Wiktionary nearly two months ago. Nothing has been done to it since: it remains a one-line dictdef. ( Delete Redirect to Yarmulke). — Asbestos | Talk  19:33, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
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Category:Second-generation video game consoles

 * Second generation of video game consoles — and   generally introduced between 1976 and 1984.
 * It was affected by the North American video game crash of 1983−1985.


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Super Dragon

Daniel Caine Lyon (born June 8, 1980),  better known by his ring name Super Dragon, is an American professional wrestler. Beginning his career in 1997, he has worked for companies such as All Pro Wrestling, Chikara, Combat Zone Wrestling, Ring of Honor, World Championship Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Guerilla (PWG) and Xtreme Pro Wrestling.

Super Dragon is one of six founders of the Southern California-based promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla. He is a former PWG World Champion and a record six-time PWG World Tag Team Champion, having held the title twice with B-Boy and Davey Richards, and once with Excalibur and Kevin Steen.

Early career (1996–1999)
Super Dragon started training in 1996 in World Power Wrestling's wrestling school, where he was trained under owner Martin Marin. He had his first match in 1997 against Tiger Joe. Super Dragon became friends with Blitzkrieg, who during a tour of Mexico caught the eye of local wrestlers, such as Psicosis and Juventud Guerrera, who were also performing for World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Afterwards Blitzkrieg and Super Dragon were granted a dark match for WCW with the help of American Wild Child, who was friends with Konnan.

Revolution Pro Wrestling (1999–2004)
Super Dragon joined Revolution Pro Wrestling in 1999 and was part of the New Generation that hit Rev-Pro along with Disco Machine, TARO, Excalibur and Shogun. However, it was not long after that when Dragon tore his ACL and was forced to go for a reconstructive surgery in July 2000. Dragon made his return in January 2001 and reached his first real peak on September 28, 2001, when he defeated B-Boy in the finals of a sixteen-man tournament to win the Revolution J Tournament. During this time Dragon, along with other Rev-Pro stars were featured on a few Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW) shows. On October 25, 2002, at Pride of the Mask II, Super Dragon and Shogun defeated TARO and El Gallinero Tres in a tag team match, with the stipulation being that the two winners would later face each other in a Mask vs. Mask match. Super Dragon beat Shogun and claimed his mask. Throughout his Rev-Pro run, Dragon changed his wrestling style from high flying to brawling and his attire from various bright colors to darker colors. His feud with TARO was especially a heated one. After nearly a five-year battle in both Revolution Pro Wrestling and All Pro Wrestling the feud culminated in a Mask vs. Mask match at Rev-Pro's fourth anniversary show on November 11, 2003. Dragon defeated TARO, who after the match unmasked, announced his retirement and embraced Super Dragon. On May 12, 2004, at Revolution Pro's final show, Super Dragon was defeated by Mr. Excitement.

Combat Zone Wrestling (2002–2006)
Super Dragon started wrestling for Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) in 2002 at Best of the Best 2 against longtime rival B-Boy. When he returned in 2004, he wrestled many tag team matches with partner Excalibur, and challenged Chris Hero for the Iron Man championship. In 2005, he was involved in a feud against BLKOUT. At Cage of Death 7, Dragon beat Ruckus for the CZW World Heavyweight Championship. This win made Super Dragon the first masked wrestler to hold the title. During the match, he gave BLKOUT manager Robbie Merino, who had already been injured previously by Super Dragon, a Curb Stomp onto the stage. At the next show, An Afternoon of Main Events, Dragon teamed with the Kings of Wrestling (who were also feuding with BLKOUT) in a six-man tag team match against BLKOUT, which they lost. Super Dragon lost the title back to Ruckus in February 2006 in a match also involving Kevin Steen.

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (2003–present)
In May 2003 Super Dragon along with Disco Machine, Excalibur, Joey Ryan, Scott Lost and Top Gun Talwar, collectively known as the "PWG Six", founded Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, SoCal's largest wrestling promotion. At PWG's debut show on July 26, 2003, he defeated M-Dogg 20. The next two PWG shows featured the Badass Mother 3000 tournament to determine the first PWG Champion. Super Dragon got to the semifinals, but was then eliminated by Joey Ryan.

In PWG Super Dragon re-formed the faction known in Revolution Pro as Team Chismo with Excalibur and Disco Machine, under the new name S.B.S. At PWG...The Musical, held on April 17, 2004, Dragon and Excalibur won the PWG tag team titles from Chris Bosh and Quicksilver. They became the first team to successfully defend the titles, but later lost them to the X Foundation of Joey Ryan and Scott Lost. On November 13, 2004, at Free Admission (Just Kidding), Super Dragon beat Frankie Kazarian to win the PWG Championship. He defended the title against Homicide, Samoa Joe, Kevin Steen and others, before finally losing it to A.J. Styles on April 2, 2005, at All Star Weekend - Night Two.

On December 18, 2004, at Uncanny X-Mas after Dragon's match with Jonny Storm, a second Super Dragon came to the ring and attacked the real Super Dragon by delivering him some of his signature moves. This man attacked again on February 12, 2005, at All Nude Review, and on May 13, 2005, at Jason Takes PWG Excalibur turned on Dragon, revealed himself as the mastermind of the attacks and then defeated him in a Guerrilla Warfare match with help from Kevin Steen, who revealed himself as the second Super Dragon. This began a feud between Steen and Dragon. On June 11, 2005, at Guitarmageddon Super Dragon teamed up with his S.B.S. partner Disco Machine to take on the team of Kevin Steen and Excalibur. However, in the end Disco Machine also turned on Dragon and aligned himself with Steen and Excalibur as the new S.B.S. During his feud with the S.B.S. on October 1, 2005, Super Dragon was forced to team with Davey Richards to challenge for the tag team titles against El Generico and Human Tornado, known as the "2 Skinny Black Guys", at After School Special. Working well together as a team, Dragon and Richards managed to win the titles. On December 3, 2005, at Chanukah Chaos (The C's Are Silent), after Dragon had gotten a small measure of revenge on Excalibur and Disco Machine by defeating them in a tag team title match, he attacked the PWG Champion Kevin Steen during his title match with Joey Ryan and gave him two Psycho Drivers, causing him to lose the title. The feud ended on December 16, 2005, at Astonishing X-Mas in a Guerrilla Warfare match, in which Super Dragon came out victorious.

Super Dragon and Davey Richards continued their tag title reign defeating teams such as Cape Fear (El Generico and Quicksilver), Los Luchas (Zokre and Phoenix Star), The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli), Roderick Strong and Jack Evans, and A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels. During their reign, Dragon and Richards also turned the titles into World Tag Team Titles, by defending them in Germany and England. On May 20, 2006, however, Arrogance, the team of Scott Lost and Chris Bosh, defeated them for the titles at Enchantment Under The Sea.

Super Dragon returned to PWG on September 2 as a participant in the 2006 Battle of Los Angeles tournament. On the second night, he defeated Necro Butcher, and on the third, he defeated Frankie Kazarian and Jack Evans to advance to the finals, but was unable to compete due to injuries he sustained the previous night. Davey Richards would go on to win the tournament, but instead of wanting a World title shot, he wanted a rematch for the tag titles. The match was set to take place on October 6 at Self-Titled, but a conflict prevented Richards from being at the show. Instead of waiting for Richards to return, Super Dragon chose B-Boy as his partner and they went on to defeat Chris Bosh and Scott Lost for the championship. On November 17, 2006, Richards won the PWG World Tag Team Championship for a second time, teaming up with Roderick Strong to defeat the champions, B-Boy and Super Dragon. The next night, in the main event of the show, the duo lost the belts back to the men they had won them from in a 4-way match which also included the Kings of Wrestling, as well as the team of Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin. Dragon won the match for his team by pinning Richards after a Psycho Driver. Less than a month later on December 2, 2006, at Passive Hostility Dragon and B-Boy lost the tag team titles to Cape Fear, and split afterwards as a tag team.

Since then, Dragon suffered defeats at the hands of newcomer Ronin in a singles match, and a pinfall by Los Luchas in a tag team match. Soon after that Dragon broke his ankle and eventually made his return on April 8, 2007, at All Star Weekend V - Night Two during a match between Arrogance and Roderick Strong and Jack Evans when he and Davey Richards came out and attacked everyone and announced that Super Dragon would be Richards' partner for the upcoming Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament. On May 20, 2007, however, the first night of the tournament, the reuniting Super Dragon and Davey Richards lost in the first round to the makeshift team of Roderick Strong and PAC, who would go on to win the whole tournament.

On October 27, 2007, Night 2 of PWG's European Vacation II Dragon and Davey Richards were able to defeat Kevin Steen and El Generico for the PWG World Tag Team Championships giving Richards his third and Dragon his fifth reign, with this being their second reign as a team. On the first weekend of January 2008 PWG held its sixth All Star Weekend, during which Dragon was scheduled to take on Susumu Yokosuka on the first night and TARO on the second night in a special "Return Grudge Match". Dragon, who had gained massive amounts of weight, took himself out of the Yokosuka match and replaced himself with CIMA and the next night defeated TARO in a lackluster match. On January 27, 2008, at Pearl Habra Dragon and Richards were stripped of their tag team titles after Richards no-showed the event.

After taking two months off Super Dragon returned to PWG on March 21, 2008, at 1.21 Gigawatts by attacking Jade Chung and giving her a Psycho Driver during a tag team match between the Dynasty (Joey Ryan and Scott Lost) and Kevin Steen and El Generico. On April 5, 2008, at It's a Gift...and a Curse Super Dragon continued his feud with the Dynasty by first attacking Scott Lost after his match with Claudio Castagnoli and then by brawling with Joey Ryan all over the building culminating in him giving Ryan a Psycho Driver off the stage through a table.

On May 17, 2008, Dragon and Richards teamed up once more for the 2008 Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament, where they were defeated by the team of Kevin Steen and El Generico in the first round in a tag team title match. During the match, Dragon received yet another concussion, which led to him taking a hiatus from in-ring competition, still maintaining his backstage role with the company.

Super Dragon made his return on October 22, 2011, by saving former rival Kevin Steen from The Young Bucks after the two had cost him the PWG World Championship and challenged him to a handicap Guerrilla Warfare match. Steen then named Dragon his partner for the match on December 10. On December 10, Dragon and Steen, known collectively as "Appetite for Destruction", defeated The Young Bucks in a Guerrilla Warfare match to win the PWG World Tag Team Championship, Dragon's record-breaking sixth reign with the title. After being sidelined in early 2012 with a heel fracture, Dragon and Steen vacated the PWG World Tag Team Championship on May 25.

On June 26, 2015, Super Dragon made a surprise return to PWG, turning heel and forming a new version of the Mount Rushmore stable with PWG World Champion Roderick Strong and PWG World Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks. Dragon wrestled his first match in three and a half years on August 29, when he and The Young Bucks defeated Andrew Everett, Biff Busick and Trevor Lee in a Guerrilla Warfare main event.

Ring of Honor (2004, 2006)
The first time Super Dragon appeared in Ring of Honor (ROH) was at Do or Die II on March 13, 2004, when he defeated Excalibur in a try-out match. He would reappear two years later in 2006 as a part of CZW, during the ROH/CZW feud. Dragon made his return to the company on March 11, 2006, at Arena Warfare by attacking B. J. Whitmer during his match with Necro Butcher. The show ended with the CZW wrestlers taking over the ring and attacking Whitmer and other ROH wrestlers. On April 22, 2006, at The 100th Show, Dragon was a part of Team CZW along with Chris Hero and Necro Butcher as they defeated Team ROH of Samoa Joe, Whitmer, and Adam Pearce, when Claudio Castagnoli turned on his ROH teammates. This match saw Dragon hit a Psycho Driver on Whitmer from the apron to the floor through a table. On April 29, 2006, at Weekend of Champions: Night Two Whitmer gained revenge on Dragon and defeated him after giving him an exploder superplex through a table on the floor, to win their feud. After the match Adam Pearce and Ace Steel carried Dragon out of the arena and he has not returned to the company since.

Championships and accomplishments

 * All Pro Wrestling
 * APW Worldwide Internet Championship (2 times)
 * Combat Zone Wrestling
 * CZW World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 * Jersey Championship Wrestling
 * Jersey J-Cup (2004)
 * Pro Wrestling Guerrilla
 * PWG Championship (1 time)
 * PWG World Tag Team Championship (6 times) – B-Boy (2), Excalibur (1), Davey Richards (2) and Kevin Steen (1)
 * Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 * PWI ranked him #213 of the top 500 wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2006
 * Revolution Pro Wrestling
 * Rev-Pro Mexican Lucha Libre Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 * Rev-Pro Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
 * Rev-Pro Pride of the Mask Championship (2 times)
 * Revolution J Tournament (2001)
 * Match of the Year (2000) vs. Ultra Taro Jr., July 7
 * SoCal Uncensored
 * Southern California Pro-Wrestling Hall of Fame (Class of 2010)
 * SoCal Wrestler of the Year (2001, 2003, 2004)
 * Match of the Year (2001) vs. B-Boy, November 3, Midwest Pro Wrestling
 * Match of the Year (2002) vs. Bobby Quance, December 14, Goldenstate Championship Wrestling
 * Match of the Year (2003) with B-Boy vs. Jardi Frantz and Bobby Quance, March 29, Goldenstate Championship Wrestling
 * Match of the Year (2004) vs. Joey Ryan, October 23, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla
 * Match of the Year (2006) with Davey Richards vs. Roderick Strong and Jack Evans, March 4, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla
 * Match of the Year (2011) with Kevin Steen vs. The Young Bucks, December 10, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla
 * Westside Xtreme Wrestling
 * Cruiserweight Tournament (2005)

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Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the fourth album released by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, released in 1993. It is the band's only release as a trio, after the departure of Howard Levy but before the arrival of Jeff Coffin.

Reception
In his Allmusic review, music critic Dan Cross wrote of the album "The Flecktones have stuck with the formula that made their previous records successful: complex, tight grooves wrapped in a very musical, user-friendly package. The Flecktones still suffer from the departure of keyboardist/harmonica player Howard Levy, who provided the band with needed additional musical colors and textures."

Track listing

 * 1) "Vix 9" (Victor Wooten) – 4:27
 * 2) "At Last We Meet Again" (V. Wooten) – 5:34
 * 3) "Spunky and Clorissa" (Béla Fleck) – 4:30
 * 4) "Bumbershoot" (B. Fleck) – 5:22
 * 5) "Blues For Gordon" (B. Fleck) – 5:16
 * 6) "Monkey See" (B. Fleck) – 3:16
 * 7) "The Message" (music: The Flecktones; lyrics: Joe Wooten) – 4:03
 * 8) "Interlude (Return of the Ancient Ones)" (Future Man) – 2:06
 * 9) "The Drift" (The Flecktones) – 3:30
 * 10) "A Celtic Medley: Meridian/Traveling Light/Salamander's Reel" (B. Fleck) – 6:39
 * 11) "Peace, Be Still" (V. Wooten) – 4:05
 * 12) "The Longing" (B. Fleck) – 5:25
 * 13) "For Now" (B. Fleck) – 2:40

Personnel

 * Béla Fleck – Acoustic (tracks 2, 3, 5–7, 10, 12) and electric banjos (tracks 1, 4, 9, 12), gut string banjo (track 11, 13), synth (track 4)
 * Future Man – Synth-Axe Drumitar (tracks 1-12)
 * Victor Wooten – Bass guitar (tracks 1, 4, 6, 9), fretless bass (tracks 10, 12), tenor bass (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 11), stereo effect (tracks 1, 2)

Guest musicians
 * Bruce Hornsby – piano (tracks 3, 7)
 * Branford Marsalis – soprano saxophone (track 9), tenor saxophone (track 7)
 * Roderick Ward – alto saxophone (track 10)

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