Andreas Andersson

Andreas Andersson
Personnel
Surname	Claes Andreas Andersson
birthday	April 10, 1974
place of birth	Nacka ,  Sweden
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1979-1990	Hova IF
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1991-1993	Hova IF
1994	Tidaholms GoIF	9 0(6)
1994-1995	Degerfors IF	40 (16)
1996-1997	IFK Gothenburg	39 (31)
1997-1998	AC Milan	12 0(1)
1998-1999	Newcastle United	21 0(4)
1999-2005	AIK	82 (25)
2006-2007	Hove IF
2010	FC Andrea Doria
2011	IFK Hallsberg
2012	Villastadens IF
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1995	Sweden U-21	3 0(3)
1995-1996	Sweden B	2 0(1)
1996-2003	Sweden	42 0(8)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2005	AIK (assistant)
2006-2007	Hove IF
2011	IFK Mariestad
1 Only league games are given.

Claes Andreas Andersson (born April 10, 1974 in Nacka , Sweden ) is a former Swedish football player . The striker , who took part in the 2002 World Cup with the Swedish national team , played in Sweden, Italy and England over the course of his playing career. He later took on tasks as a sport functional and trainer .

Career

Career start and breakthrough in Sweden

Andersson played at Hova IF during his youth , where he made his adult debut in 1991. In 1994 he joined the second division team Tidaholms GoIF , where he immediately drew attention to himself. In the summer he moved to Degerfors IF in the Allsvenskan . In the 1995 season he distinguished himself as a regular goalscorer alongside Henrik Berger , Ulf Ottosson and Daniel Tjernström . In all 26 games of the season on the field, he scored 13 goals this season and placed third behind Niklas Skoog and Jörgen Pettersson on the Allsvenskan's list of goalscorers.

IFK Göteborg recruited Andersson before the 1996 season , with the reigning champions the previous year no player had scored more than six goals. Before the start of the season, he also got its first use in the national team, as coach Tommy Svensson him on February 25 of the year in a Friendship international match against the Australian national team began. He crowned his debut with the two goals for a 2-0 win. In the following season here he kept his goal rate at a high level. At the side of Niclas Alexandersson , Magnus Erlingmark , Teddy Lučić and Jesper Blomqvist , he was also on the field at the club overseen by Mats Jingblad in all season games and was instrumental in winning the championship with his 19 goals this season. In addition, he crowned himself the top scorer of the Allsvenskan, as he clearly distanced the competitors Marino Rahmberg and Hans Eklund , who had each scored 13 goals.

Flying visit abroad and return to Sweden

As part of the 1996/97 UEFA Champions League , Andersson had made a name for himself outside the country when he distinguished himself as a goalscorer in the 2-4 defeat by AC Milan in San Siro, Milan in October 1996. In addition, he had established himself in the national team in the autumn of that year - initially only as a substitute player behind the seeded strikers Kennet Andersson and Martin Dahlin - and was also a regular scorer in the Allsvenskan in the first half of the season in 1997. Therefore, the newly signed coach Fabio Capello , who saw him as an optimal addition to George Weah and the newly hired Patrick Kluivert , brought him to the Milan club. After a failed start to the season, it was he who scored the first success of the season with a goal against FC Empoli on matchday five. Even in the duel with Maurizio Ganz for the role of the other storm force he could not prevail in the further course of the season, this goal remained his only one for the Italian club.

Milan Andersson was on the transfer list back in January 1998 . After Kenny Dalglish had watched him as a substitute in late January, he signed the striker for around £ 3.5million for Newcastle United . Since Alan Shearer was out for a long time after an ankle injury he suffered in preparation for the season, he was considered a new storm hope, especially since Faustino Asprilla had not convinced during the season. While Shearer played his way back into the starting line-up, the Swede was also unable to convince and found himself on the bench towards the end of the season, with only two goals this season in the Premier League . In the final of the FA Cup at the end of the season against Arsenal , he was only a substitute at the beginning of the game. After Marc Overmars and Nicolas Anelka gave the London club the lead, the coach replaced him with Stuart Pearce . Ultimately, however, it remained with the 0-2 defeat. In the following season he was only left with the role of supplementary player, in addition to Shearer, the newly signed Duncan Ferguson was set as a regular under the new coach Ruud Gullit in the storm. Only when this was temporarily canceled due to an injury, he was used more often in the middle of the season.

On August 5, 1999, the Swedish club AIK announced the commitment of Andersson for 20 million Swedish kronor and just six days later he made his debut for the reigning champions and cup winners in the Champions League when the team faced AEK Athens in the third qualifying round . In the group stage, the team around Nebojša Novaković , Thomas Lagerlöf , Mike Kjølø , Michael Brundin and Pontus Kåmark had no chance despite some narrow defeats and were bottom of the group behind FC Barcelona , Fiorentina and FC Arsenal . In the 2: 3 defeat at the end against the English representative, he shone as a double goalscorer in the home Råsunda stadium .

Andersson was a regular player until the end of the Allsvenskan season in 1999 , but a cruciate ligament ruptured him the following year . He also missed a participation in the European Championship 2000 after the national selection had qualified for a major tournament for the first time since 1994. After his return to the field, he distinguished himself as a regular goalscorer in the 2001 season . With nine goals this season he led the club to third place in the table behind local rivals Hammarby IF and Djurgårdens IF and was crowned the club's best internal goalscorer in front of Andreas Alm and Patric Andersson . Also dangerous at the beginning of the following season, he was part of the squad of the selection team at the 2002 World Cup . The coaching duo Tommy Söderberg and Lars Lagerbäck relied primarily on Henrik Larsson and Marcus Allbäck in attack , but Andersson regularly came on as a substitute. Considered an outsider before the start of the tournament, he surprised the team as the winner of the preliminary round group F, which was dubbed the “group of death” in the run-up to the finals, ahead of England , Argentina and Nigeria . Also in the round of 16 against Senegal as a substitute from the 65th minute of play for Allbäck on the field, he and the team were eliminated from the tournament after two goals from Henri Camara after a golden goal . In the aftermath of the tournament, the press brought him into contact with various international clubs, but there was no change.

In the summer of 2003, Andersson injured his knee again, causing him to be out for a long time. After a two-year injury period, Andersson decided in August 2005 to end his active football career and had himself declared a sports invalid, so that the club received a sum insured.

After active football

After the declaration of the end of his career, Andersson moved to AIK in the coaching staff of Rikard Norling and his assistant Nebojša Novaković. In 2006 he moved to the club's management as assistant to head of sport Ola Andersson , before returning to his hometown club Hova IF as a player- coach in the summer .

In November 2006 Degerfors IF announced the engagement of Andersson as the new head of sport from 2007. In the second division season 2008 , the team missed relegation in the Superettan , as a result, he left the club. A year later he announced his comeback on the football field and joined the seventh division FC Andrea Doria . In October 2010 Andersson signed a two-year contract as a trainer at IFK Mariestad . After only one season, however, he gave up his office again. At the same time, he returned to the field in the summer of 2011 and joined the IFK Hallsberg, which was also competing in the seventh division like his last play station . For the 2012 season he moved to the sixth division at Villastadens IF .

Web links

• Andreas Andersson in the AIK statistics database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tuttomercatoweb.com: "Andreas Andersson, il regalo di Capello al Milan" (accessed on March 9, 2011)
2. ↑ findarticles.com: "Kenny lines up a double swoop" (accessed March 9, 2011)
3. ↑ ^{a b c} svenskafans.com: "Andreas Andersson lägger av - blir tränare" (accessed on March 9, 2011)
4. ↑ aftonbladet.se: "Andreas Andersson borta resten av säsongen" from July 18, 2003, accessed on March 9, 2011
5. ↑ fotbollsverige.se: "Andreas Andersson klar som klubbchef" (accessed on March 9, 2011)
6. ↑ degerforsif.se: "Andreas Andersson lämnar DIF" ( Memento from August 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 9, 2011)
7. ↑ aftonbladet.se: "Andreas Andersson gör comeback" (accessed on March 9, 2011)
8. ↑ nlt.se: "Andreas tränar IFK Mariestad" (accessed on March 9, 2011)
9. ↑ lagsidan.se/ifkmariestad: "Andreas Andersson lämnar!" (Accessed on March 10, 2014)
10. ↑ fotbolltransfers.com: "Andreas Andersson gör comeback i IFK Hallsberg" (accessed on March 10, 2014)
11. ↑ fotbolltransfers.com: "Årets värvning i småserierna - Andreas Andersson till division 4" (accessed on March 10, 2014)