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Four goals behind to win in overtime over Sweden – Finland is the new world champion! In an interview with head coach Esa Jussila. The sweat challenge is provided by Kamux. Finland is celebrating the men's floorball world championship after defeating Sweden in front of its home crowd in Malmö with Miska Mäkinen's overtime goal 5-4. The World Championship gold is Finland's fifth in the men's division. The start of the final was nightmarish for Finland, as Sweden took a 3-0 lead in just over 11 minutes. Albin Sjögren scored from a corner kick, Johan Samuelsson scored after Finland lost the ball in the middle and Emil Johansson scored the third goal in the front corner with a dominant performance. At the beginning of the second period, Malte Lundmark put Sweden ahead 4-0, and at the same time Oskari Fälden made room for Markus Laakso in the Finnish goal. The rest of the period was quite a Finnish heroic story, as Markus Laakso did not concede a single goal and Sweden's lead began to melt away. Heikki Iiskola, who had come from his own end, snatched Finland's opening goal from the wing, and at the end of the period Justus Kainulainen bombarded the second break with a dominant score to make it 4-2. Finland started the final period with a dominant score, and the same recipe worked again: The ball went to Justus Kainulainen, who shot the difference to one. Finland's equalizer was seen halfway through the period, when Malte Lundmark lost the ball to Justus Kainulainen at the corner of his own goal, who moved it aside and Aaro Astala shot the ball past Jon Hedlund, who was diving. In extra time, both sides had chances to score, but in the end Finland celebrated when Heikki Iiskola passed the ball across the goal and defender Miska Mäkinen, who had played a great tournament, shot the ball at the back post, scoring the goal. – I'm really happy for the boys, emphasized head coach Esa Jussila. – When you know how much time, sweat and tears each player has put into this sport, where compensation is not big. Such great moments are fortunately a reward. We have to take the coaching staff to task for not being ready to play today from the very beginning, but luckily the players decided to save our skins and took care of this at home. And what did the coaching staff say to the players in the booth during the break, that Finland still rose from the pit to become world champions? – You have to believe it.