Alexander Farnerud

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Alexander Farnerud
Alexander Farnerud during a test match in Wernau.JPG
Farnerud in the VfB Stuttgart jersey during a test match
Personnel
birthday May 1, 1984
place of birth Landskrona ,  Sweden
size 182 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
0000-2001 Landskrona BoIS
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2001-2003 Landskrona BoIS 75 (13)
2004-2006 Racing Strasbourg 81 0(6)
2004-2006 Racing Strasbourg B 4 0(1)
2006-2008 VfB Stuttgart II 4 0(1)
2006-2008 VfB Stuttgart 20 0(0)
2008-2011 Brøndby IF 73 (18)
2011-2013 BSC Young Boys 82 (16)
2013-2016 Torino FC 50 0(5)
2016-2017 BK hooks 24 0(5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2002-2006 Sweden U-21 35 (12)
2003-2010 Sweden 8 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2017

2 As of the end of the 2017 season

Alexander Farnerud [ alɛksandɛr farnɛrʉːd ] (born May 1, 1984 in Landskrona ) is a former Swedish football player . The midfielder , who has worked in his home country, France, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy throughout his career, made his debut for the Swedish national team in 2003 .

Career

Farnerud made his debut in 2001 for Landskrona BoIS in the Superettan . The midfielder rose with the club at the end of the season in the Allsvenskan . After the end of the 2003 season he left the club and joined Racing Strasbourg in January 2004 . With the club he won the Coupe de la Ligue , the French league cup , in 2005 .

Farnerud made his debut on February 16, 2003 for the Swedish national team . In a team consisting mainly of players from the Allsvenskan, which on the occasion of a game for the King's Cup against the national team of Qatar, a 3-2 win, he was in the starting line-up and was replaced in the 68th minute by Stefan Ishizaki . His first goal scoring in the national jersey came in the further course of the tournament, when he made it 3-0 in a 4-1 win over the Thai national team on February 20 . He then had to wait more than two years for his next appearance, the fourth international match of his career, before coming on for Mikael Nilsson on June 8, 2005 in the 78th minute in the 2: 3 international defeat against Norway . Subsequently, he was not called into the selection for a while.

In the summer of 2006, Farnerud moved to the German Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart for a transfer fee of around 2.6 million euros , where he was only a reserve player due to minor injuries. He scored his first goal in a preparatory game against Lazio . With this goal, VfB was able to end the game 1-1. In the Bundesliga he remained without scoring in two seasons, the greatest success was winning the championship title in the 2006/07 season . He had contributed to this in nine games of the season.

On July 8, 2008 Farnerud moved to Denmark to Brøndby IF . Here he was a regular player for long stretches and distinguished himself as a dangerous midfielder. Twice in a row he finished with the club at the end of the 2008/09 and 2009/10 seasons of the Superliga as third in the table and thus reached the qualifying rounds for the UEFA Europa League , where each participation in the group stage was missed. However, he had thus played his way back to the national team in 2009, in January 2009 who played his fifth international match when a team consisting mainly of players active in northern European countries and the national team of the United States met . After another assignment a few days later, he played two more international matches in a similar context in 2010.

At the beginning of 2011, Farnerud moved to BSC Young Boys in Switzerland and quickly became a crowd favorite. As third in the 2010/11 season , he had qualified with the team for the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League , after two wins against Belgian representative KVC Westerlo , the team was eliminated in the play-offs despite Farnerud's goal to make it 2-2 Minutes before the end of the game in the second leg against Portuguese club Sporting Braga after a 0-0 draw in Portugal due to the away goals rule from the competition. With the same result in the championship of the following year again represented in the qualification, he reached the group stage with the club in the 2012/13 UEFA Europa League . There the team missed the knockout phase in a head-to-head race with Liverpool FC and Anzhi Makhachkala with ten points each due to the poorer results in a direct comparison.

Farnerud had a contract that was valid until the summer of 2016, but after good performances within the Super League and in particular the UEFA Europa League, he also attracted attention outside the Swiss national borders. On June 19, 2013 it was announced that he was moving to Torino for 2.5 million Swiss francs. In Serie A , however, he only temporarily got beyond the role of substitute player. In the 2013/14 and 2014/15 seasons he was in the starting line-up for just under two-thirds of his season games, each with 15 appearances ; in the 2015/16 seasons he only made five appearances as a substitute throughout the season. In the meantime, he had once again played himself in the focus of the selection now overseen by Erik Hamrén , who called him to the selection in March 2015 for a possible comeback. Ultimately, however, he had to cancel due to an injury and was replaced by Marcus Rohdén , who was almost seven years his junior , and there was no further appointment.

After Farnerud was temporarily without a club in the summer of 2016, he returned to Sweden in August. He signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with Gothenburg club BK Häcken . Here he was a regular player straight away, but suffered a knee injury the following summer. In autumn, the club and the players decided to terminate the contract.

successes

  • German champion with VfB Stuttgart in the 2006/07 season
  • Coupe de la Ligue with RC Strasbourg in the 2004/05 season

Others

Alexander Farnerud's brother Pontus Farnerud is also a Swedish international.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Farnerud, Alexander - svenskfotboll.se
  2. ↑ blick.ch: For 2.5 million - Farnerud changes to Torino
  3. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "Farnerud skadad - Rohdén ersätter"
  4. ↑ fotbolltransfers.com: "Officiellt: Alexander Farnerud klar för BK Häcken" (accessed on September 5, 2016)
  5. ↑ bkhacken.se: "Farnerud och BK Häcken bryter kontraktet" (accessed on August 28, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Farnerud, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Landskrona