Alexander Axén

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Alexander Axén
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Axén in March 2015
Personnel
birthday October 15, 1970
Juniors
Years station
Örebro SK
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Rynninge IK
BK Forward
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2000-2007 Rynninge IK
2007 IK Start (Co-Trainer)
2008 Örebro SK (assistant coach)
2009–2012 GAIS
2013-2014 Örebro SK (assistant coach)
2014-2017 Örebro SK
1 Only league games are given.

Alexander Axén (born October 15, 1970 ) is a former Swedish football player . Occasionally he worked as a trainer for the Allsvenskan , among others , and now works as an expert on Swedish television.

Career

Axén grew up in Örebro and started playing football at Örebro SK . In the men's area he ran for Rynninge IK and BK Forward in the lower class, for the latter he played temporarily in the second class.

After the end of his active career, Axén took over the coaching position at Rynninge IK in 2000 . With the third division , he initially reached top positions in the league, in 2002 the team was five points behind BK Forward vice-champion of Division 2 Västra Svealand . In 2004, Axén rose with the club in the fourth division and managed there as a season winner the qualification for the new, now fourth-class Division 2 Västra Svealand .

In 2007 Axén went to Norway in the Tippeligaen to protect IK Start from relegation with his compatriot Benny Lennartsson . When the company failed, he returned to Sweden and was hired by his youth club Örebro SK in the 2008 season as assistant coach to the newly signed Sixten Boström .

In December 2008 GAIS announced the engagement of Axén as the new head coach after the previous coach Magnus Pehrsson had left the club for Aalborg BK . He signed a three-year contract with the Gothenburg club. Under his leadership, the team was placed in the lower middle of the table, initially placed twice, before they surprised in the 2011 season and temporarily played for a place in the European Cup . As a result, the club extended his contract in September 2011. On July 22nd, 2012 he resigned at his own request, the previous assistant coach Kjell Pettersson subsequently took over his duties on an interim basis.

In June 2013 Axén returned as an assistant coach to his youth club, the first division club Örebro SK. There he inherited the previous head coach Per-Ola Ljung, who had resigned from his position, the following summer . While he placed himself with the team in the middle of the table, he moved into the final with her in the 2014/15 national cup . Although there brought Ayanda Nkili they lead, Lasse Vibe and Søren Rieks but turned the game in favor of the final opponent IFK Gothenburg . In August 2017, he announced that he did not want to extend the contract that expired at the end of the season. After the club had decided on the previous assistant coach Axel Kjäll as his successor, he took over as head coach after the following game against GIF Sundsvall .

A few days after he left his coaching position at ÖSK, the media company C More hired Axén as an expert in reporting for Swedish professional football. Shortly after the end of the 2017 season, he extended the agreement to 2019. In March 2018, TV4 also hired him as an expert for the upcoming 2018 World Cup in Russia . He then stayed with C More as an expert on the national championship. In September 2019 he announced his departure at the end of the current season. In November of that year, his move to the Swedish branch of Discovery became known, which, among other things, looked after the broadcaster Eurosport and had taken over the broadcasting rights to Allsvenskan from the 2020 season .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Alexander Axén ny huvudtränare i GAIS" - article on the website of GAIS ( Memento of December 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 25, 2008)
  2. ↑ "Boström och Axén tar över Örebro SK" - Article on the website of Nerikes Allehanda ( Memento from December 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 25, 2008)
  3. ^ "Officiellt: Alexander Axén tar över Gais" - article on the website of Fotbollskanalen.se (accessed on December 25, 2008)
  4. ↑ Alexander Axén ny tränare i Gais ( Memento of December 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Axén förlängde med GAIS ( Memento from April 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ gais.se: "Axén lämnar GAIS" ( Memento from January 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on July 26, 2012)
  7. ↑ oskfotboll.se: "Per-Ola Ljung lämnar - Alexander Axén ny huvudtränare" (accessed on July 17, 2014)
  8. ↑ aftonbladet.se: "Axén lämnar ÖSK:" Har nått målen "" (accessed on April 13, 2019)
  9. ↑ aftonbladet.se: "Axel Kjäll ny Örebrotränare - Axén lämnar på söndag" (accessed on April 13, 2019)
  10. ↑ expressen.se: "Här är Alexander Axéns nya jobb" (accessed on April 13, 2019)
  11. ↑ fotbollskanalen.se: "Alexander Axén förlänger avtalet med C More" (accessed on April 13, 2019)
  12. ↑ aftonbladet.se: "Avslöjar: Han blir ny VM-expert i TV4" (accessed on April 13, 2019)
  13. ↑ aftonbladet.se: "Alexander Axén lämnar TV:" Slakten av Tankovic gjorde mig orolig ... "" (accessed on June 3, 2020)
  14. ↑ fotbolldirekt.se: "AVSLÖJAR: Här hamnar Axén Nästa år" (accessed on June 3, 2020)

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personal data
SURNAME Axén, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1970