Par Zetterberg

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Par Zetterberg
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Zetterberg during training
Personnel
birthday October 14, 1970
place of birth Falkenberg ,  Sweden
size 174 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1978-1986 Falkenbergs FF
1987-1991 RSC Anderlecht
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986 Falkenbergs FF 7 0(0)
1990-1991 RSC Anderlecht 2 0(0)
1991-1993 Sporting Charleroi 62 (11)
1993-2000 RSC Anderlecht 193 (49)
2000-2003 Olympiacos Piraeus 61 0(7)
2003-2006 RSC Anderlecht 89 (23)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1993-1999 Sweden 30 0(6)
1 Only league games are given.

Pär Zetterberg (born October 14, 1970 in Falkenberg ) is a former Swedish football player . The midfielder , who played for the Swedish national team in 30 international matches in the 1990s , played his career almost exclusively outside his home country. During his time in Belgium he was named Belgium's Footballer of the Year twice, and in 1997 he was also named Sweden's Footballer of the Year . A participation in a major tournament was denied to him, who won the national championship nine times in Belgium and Greece together.

Career

Club career

Career start and breakthrough at RSC Charleroi

Zetterberg began playing football at Falkenbergs FF in 1978 . In 1986 he made his teenage debut for the club's competitive team, for which he played seven competitive games. In January of the following year he switched to the Belgian club RSC Anderlecht as a junior player . Initially only active in the youth teams, he was promoted to the competitive team in 1989 under coach Aad de Mos . However, he was initially denied the breakthrough, after his debut against Germinal Ekeren in October 1990, there were only two league appearances to book until the summer of 1991. Therefore, he joined league rivals Sporting Charleroi on loan in 1991 . There he established himself as a regular player with 29 league appearances and was in his first season, when the club finished 13th in the championship, with five goals this season tied with Dante Brogno , the second-best club scorer. Only Marc Wuyts had been more successful with seven goals. Under the new coach Robert Waseige , he developed in the following season to the "little prince of Mambourg " ( petit prince du Mambourg ) when he reached the final of the national cup with the club - which was ultimately lost to Standard Liège . He also played his way into the national team. In the 1-0 win over Austria in May 1993 with a goal by Jan Eriksson, who was under contract with 1. FC Kaiserslautern in qualifying for the 1994 World Cup , he made his debut as a substitute for Johnny Ekström in the national jersey . Since the lending club could not take the option, he returned to RSC Anderlecht at the end of the season and was replaced by Tibor Balog .

Successful years at RSC Anderlecht and Olympiacos Piraeus

At the reigning champions RSC Anderlecht, Zetterberg was a regular after his return. While he had reached the group stage of the 1993/94 UEFA Champions League with the club after successes over HJK Helsinki and Sparta Prague , he was named Footballer of the Year in Belgium at the end of the year. In January he was still involved in winning the Belgian Supercup with a 3-0 win over Standard Liège after goals by John Bosman and two-time goalscorer Luc Nilis , but was sidelined in mid-1994 after a serious injury. Thus, on the one hand, the club defended the championship without his further support - he came to a total of 22 season games - on the other hand, he also missed a participation in the World Cup finals in the summer in the United States, in which his compatriots around Tomas Brolin , Thomas Ravelli , Klas Ingesson and Henrik Larsson won third place, the best result since the runner-up at the 1958 World Cup .

After his recovery, he was again a regular player in the 1994/95 season and led the club to another championship title. After winning the Supercup with a 2-1 win against Club Bruges , he remained without a title win in the following years. Although the club was regularly in the front of the table, a new championship win did not succeed. There was also no success with the national team, neither for the 1996 European Championship nor for the 1998 World Championship did the Swedish team qualify. Only 1997 brought him personal success when he scored twelve goals in the 1996/97 season and again received the Golden Shoe for Belgium's Footballer of the Year at the end of the year.

In 2000 Zetterberg moved to Olympiacos Piraeus before signing again with RSC Anderlecht in 2003. He ended his career at RSC Anderlecht after the 2005/06 season and has been working as a talent scout in the youth field ever since.

Pär Zetterberg was voted Belgium's Footballer of the Year twice and Sweden's Footballer of the Year once. He became both Belgian and Greek champions and cup winners.

After football

Zetterberg now plays floorball for the Waterloo Lions , one of the most successful teams in Belgium. In 2006 Zetterberg played in Match , the Swedish edition of " The Match ".

Achievements and Awards

  • Belgian champion: 1991, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2004, 2005
  • Belgian cup winner: 1994
  • Greek champion: 2001, 2002, 2003
  • Greek Cup Winner: 2001, 2002
  • Belgian football player of the year: 1993, 1997
  • Swedish football player of the year: 1997
  • Belgian Fair Play Cup: 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b sporting-charleroi.be: "Sporting News" (page 8) (accessed on November 7, 2012; PDF; 2.3 MB)
predecessor Office successor

Philippe Albert
Franky Van der Elst 		Belgium's Footballer of the Year
1993
1997
Gilles De Bilde
Branko Strupar
personal data
SURNAME Zetterberg, Par
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkenberg , Sweden