Andreas Isaksson

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Andreas Isaksson
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Isaksson (2014)
Personnel
birthday 3rd October 1981
place of birth Smygehamn ,  Sweden
size 200 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
Trelleborgs FF
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1999 Trelleborgs FF 11 (0)
1999-2000 Juventus Turin 0 (0)
2001-2004 Djurgårdens IF 75 (0)
2004-2006 Rennes stadium 62 (0)
2006-2008 Manchester City 20 (0)
2008–2012 PSV Eindhoven 123 (0)
2012-2016 Kasımpaşa Istanbul 104 (0)
2016-2018 Djurgårdens IF 60 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2002-2016 Sweden 133 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Andreas Isaksson (born October 3, 1981 in Smygehamn ) is a former Swedish football player . The goalkeeper , who has been under contract outside of his home country in England, France, Italy and the Netherlands in the course of his career so far, has participated in several World Cup and European Championship finals with the Swedish national team. The two-time Swedish champions have been named Goalkeeper of the Year in Sweden seven times, and between 2002 and 2016 he made 133 appearances for the national team.

Career

Career start in Sweden and Italy

Isaksson started playing football at Östra Torp GIF before joining the youth department at Trelleborg FF . There he moved up to the professional squad in the 1999 season and made his debut in the Allsvenskan at the age of 17 . The talent scouts of the traditional Italian club Juventus Turin discovered the talent of the 1.99 meter tall goalkeeper and brought him to Italy as a young perspective player for around 1.5 million euros. Although he was not used as the club's third goalkeeper in Serie A during his one and a half year stay in southern Europe , he took the opportunity to learn from Gianluigi Buffon in training .

In January 2001 Isaksson returned to Sweden and signed a contract with Djurgårdens IF . There he ousted Rami Shaaban between the posts and established himself alongside Stefan Bärlin , Niclas Rasck , Abgar Barsom and Stefan Rehn as the goalkeeper of the Stockholm club. As a result, he moved into the circle of the national team, in which he made his debut in March 2002 on the occasion of an international match against the Swiss national team. Due to his good performance in the league, he stayed in the squad and was included in the squad determined by the national coaching duo Lars Lagerbäck and Tommy Söderberg for the 2002 World Cup , in which he acted as the third goalkeeper behind Magnus Hedman and Magnus Kihlstedt .

2002 was a successful year for Isaksson not only because of his participation in the World Cup. At the end of the 2002 season he won the Lennart Johansson Cup for the Swedish national championship with his club . In addition, he reached the final of the Swedish National Cup on the side of Louay Chanko , Babis Stefanidis and Kim Källström , in which he won the double with a 1-0 win over local rivals AIK . Ultimately, he was also named goalkeeper of the year.

In the 2003 season , Isaksson successfully defended the championship title with his club. He also benefited from Hedman's bad luck with injuries and established himself as the goalkeeper of the national team. Once again named Goalkeeper of the Year at the end of 2003, he went to the 2004 European Championship as “Number 1” in the summer of the following year . After completing the tournament, in which he failed in the quarter-finals with his team around Olof Mellberg , Christian Wilhelmsson , Zlatan Ibrahimović and Erik Edman on penalties at the Dutch national team , he left Djurgårdens IF.

In other European countries

In the summer of 2004 Isaksson signed a contract with the French club Stade Rennes , where he inherited Petr Čech , who had moved to England . Driven by the top scorer Alexander Frei, he helped as a regular goalkeeper in all 38 Ligue 1 games of the season to reach fourth place in the table and thus to move into the European Cup . After a seventh place in the following season, the now solely responsible national coach Lagerbäck nominated him as a regular between the posts for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. With Freddie Ljungberg , Marcus Allbäck , Teddy Lučić and Niclas Alexandersson he reached the round of 16 of the finals, in which the German national team prevailed after two goals from Lukas Podolski and a penalty missed by Henrik Larsson and Isaksson prevented a major defeat.

Isaksson again changed employers after a tournament and accepted an offer from the Premier League club Manchester City . There he was considered as the successor to England goalkeeper David James , but due to an injury break he ousted Nicky Weaver . It was not until February of the following year that he was permanently between the posts for the English club. At the beginning of the 2007/08 season he again lost the place between the posts and had to give way to Joe Hart and Kasper Schmeichel , the son of former world goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel . He only played four season games in the Premier League until the winter break, which is why a move to Galatasaray Istanbul was considered in January 2008 , which ultimately failed due to different transfer ideas between the two clubs. After Isaksson's failed move, Schmeichel was loaned to Cardiff City in the second-rate Football League Championship . Still, Isaksson only had the place on the bench, as Hart was able to establish himself in goal. It was not until May 11, 2008, the last game day, that he was used against FC Middlesbrough , but conceded eight goals. Despite the short playing time in the league, Lagerström stuck to him as a regular goalkeeper. At the 2008 European Championships in Switzerland and Austria, he played in all three games. At the side of Mellberg, Ibrahimović, Fredrik Stoor and Daniel Andersson , he retired early in the group as third.

For the 2008/09 season, Isaksson moved to the Dutch club PSV Eindhoven to replace the Brazilian goalkeeper Gomes who had switched to Tottenham Hotspur . With the reigning national champions, he moved into the group stage of the 2008/09 UEFA Champions League , in which only the 2-0 victory over Olympique Marseille managed to win a point and he with the team around Dirk Marcellis , Ibrahim Afellay , Jason Culina and Timmy Simons thus eliminated as bottom of the table. As fourth in the table, he moved with the club again in the following year in the European Cup.

Andreas Isaksson as the Swedish national goalkeeper during the European Football Championship 2012.

Even after Fred Rutten was signed as a new coach in the summer of 2009, he stayed with his club as a regular goalkeeper. With the national team he was denied the fifth participation in the final round in a row in autumn 2009, because as third in the qualifying group behind Denmark and Portugal, participation in the World Cup tournament was missed. The Dutch championship, dominated by the club, was all the more successful at this time. Up to the 25th matchday the team was unbeaten leader of the table, in the remaining nine games they only got 13 points and in the end they were well behind champions FC Twente Enschede and second in the table Ajax Amsterdam . In the following season there was again a three-way battle between the clubs, again Isaksson moved with his club as third in the table in the European Cup.

In qualifying for the 2012 European Championship , Isaksson played nine of the ten games. Behind the Dutch national team , the selection was second in the table, thanks to the 3-2 win in the game against Elftal in the last qualifying game, they qualified directly for the finals as the best group runner-up. First he was permanently between the posts at his club, before Rutten conceded ten goals in two consecutive games - a 2-4 defeat in Europe against the Spanish club Valencia and a 2-6 home defeat in the Dutch championship against the FC Twente - replaced at the beginning of March by the previous goalkeeper Przemysław Tytoń . Although he was no longer used in the honor division until the end of the season, national coach Erik Hamrén nominated him in mid-May of that year as “number 1” for the European Championship finals. At the tournament, he played all three games in the preliminary round, the Swedish team missed the entry into the knockout phase.

Shortly before the end of his contract with PSV, he managed to win the KNVB Cup in the final against Heracles Almelo (3-0), even if Isaksson was not used in the final. For the new season he moved to the Turkish first division promoted Kasımpaşa Istanbul . With the club he established himself in the Süper Lig and placed himself near the European Cup places in the first two years . At the same time, he was still the undisputed goalkeeper of the national team, for which he played his 100th international match on October 12, 2012 in the qualifying game for the 2014 World Cup final against the Faroe Islands . In qualifying for the World Cup, the Swedish national team, which finished second in their group behind Germany, failed in the play-offs with a 1-0 and a 3-2 defeat to Portugal for Cristiano Ronaldo , who scored all Portuguese goals the runners-up. After a 13th place in the table in the 2014/15 season , Kasımpaşa returned to the front half of the table in the following season. However, Isaksson had lost his regular place to Ramazan Köse during the season. Nevertheless, he remained the "number 1" for the 2016 European Championship finals , for which Sweden had qualified via the play-offs. In all three group matches against Ireland, Italy and Sweden he was in goal, then the team was eliminated. After the last game, Isaksson, who had announced this in March, as well as Zlatan Ibrahimović , who had also announced it a few days beforehand, and Kim Källström ended their national team careers . With 133 internationals he has played the third most internationals for Sweden.

Return to Sweden

Isaksson returned to Sweden in the summer of 2016 and rejoined his former play station Djurgårdens IF. At the Stockholm club he signed a two and a half year contract. After a total of 60 league games for Djurgårdens, Isaksson played his last competitive game on May 10, 2018 in the Swedish Cup final against Malmö FF , where he celebrated the second Swedish Cup victory after 2002 with a 3-0 win and thus ended his career with a title win.

Achievements and Awards

  • Swedish champion: 2002, 2003
  • Swedish Cup Winner: 2002, 2017/18
  • Johan Cruyff bowl : 2008
  • KNVB Cup 2011/12
  • Sweden's Goalkeeper of the Year: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

Web links

Commons : Andreas Isaksson  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dif.se: "Isaksson till Djurgården" ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 23, 2010)
  2. ↑ manchestereveningnews.co.uk: "Isaksson and Weaver battle for No 1 spot" (accessed March 23, 2010)
  3. ↑ goal.com: "Isaksson dreigt plaats te verlzen aan Tyton" (accessed on May 17, 2012)
  4. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "EM troops uttagen" (accessed on May 17, 2012)
  5. ↑ Andreas Isaksson Paşada !!! ( Memento from August 7, 2012 on WebCite ), Kasımpaşa SK's website from July 9, 2012
  6. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: Isaksson snart med i hundraklubben ( Memento from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "EM troops uttagen" (accessed on June 12, 2016)
  8. ↑ expressen.se: "Bekräftat: Isaksson slutar i landslaget" (accessed on June 12, 2016)
  9. ↑ Tre enastående spelare att sakna
  10. ↑ PLAYERS → played for Sweden national team
  11. ↑ dif.se: "Andreas Isaksson tillbaka i Djurgården" ( Memento from August 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 8, 2016)
  12. ↑ Djurgården cupmästare , dif.se
personal data
SURNAME Isaksson, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Trelleborg , Sweden