Jan Eriksson (soccer player)

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Jan Eriksson
Personnel
Surname Jan Jonas Jacob Eriksson
birthday August 24, 1967
place of birth Sundsvall ,  Sweden
size 183 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1974-1980 GIF Sundsvall
1980-1984 IFK Sundsvall
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1984-1986 IFK Sundsvall 51 (2)
1987-1990 AIK Solna 73 (2)
1991-1992 IFK Norrköping 39 (3)
1992-1994 1. FC Kaiserslautern 47 (4)
1995 AIK Solna 7 (0)
1995 Servette FC Genève 6 (0)
1996 Helsingborgs IF 28 (3)
1997 Sunderland FC 1 (0)
1998-1999 Tampa Bay Mutiny 35 (2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Sweden U-21 15 (0)
1990-1994 Sweden 35 (4)
1 Only league games are given.

Jan Eriksson (born August 24, 1967 in Sundsvall ) is a former Swedish football player . Known by the nickname “Janne”, the defense and midfielder played several times for the Swedish national team , with which he took part in a World Cup and European Championship final .

His younger brother Patrik Eriksson-Ohlsson was also a professional footballer.

Career

Career start and breakthrough in Sweden

Eriksson started playing football in his hometown at GIF Sundsvall . In 1980 he moved to local rivals IFK Sundsvall , who were known for their better youth teams. There he played in the youth national teams of Svenska Fotbollförbundet and came to 15 missions in the Swedish U-21 team .

When before the first division season in 1987 Nils Andersson left the association to train AIK in the Allsvenskan , he signed Eriksson for his new club. In his first season, the defensive player came to seven missions. When Sven Dahlkvist switched to league competitor Örebro SK before the following season , he was able to inherit the position in the defense center. As a regular player who was in the starting line-up in all 22 games of the season in the 1989 season, he recommended himself for the national team. On the occasion of a preparatory training camp for the 1990 World Cup , for which the national selection had qualified for the first time since the last participation in the final tournament in 1978 , in early 1990 in the United Arab Emirates national coach Olle Nordin nominated him for the selection. On February 17th of that year he made his international debut in a 2-0 win over the national team of the United Arab Emirates through goals from Stefan Rehn and Klas Ingesson . As a result, he was able to establish himself in the team and was part of the squad at the World Cup tournament in Italy, but remained without tournament participation.

At AIK, Eriksson was still one of the regulars. On the last day of the 1990 season he scored his first goals in the Allsvenskan when he scored the two goals for AIK in the 2: 4 away defeat at IK Brage . After the end of the season he moved from the club from Solna, who had regularly placed in midfield of the league, to the reigning runner-up IFK Norrköping . Here, too, he established himself as a regular player and reached the championship finals with the team after finishing sixth in the regular season. Although the team got the most points in the final round, thanks to the fact that they took half of the points from regular time due to the high backlog there, it was only enough for the runner-up again.

Since Eriksson had now established himself as a regular in the national team, national coach Tommy Svensson nominated him for the 1992 European Championship in his own country. There he drew international attention when he scored headed goals against France and England respectively . With his two goals he contributed to the group victory before the eventual title holder Denmark and to reaching the semi-finals. There he and his team lost to the German national team, despite goals from Tomas Brolin and Kennet Andersson, when Thomas Häßler and the two-time goalscorer Karl-Heinz Riedle scored 3-2. Not least because of his good performance, the daily newspaper Aftonbladet and the Swedish Association awarded him the Guldbollen as football player of the year.

In Europe and America

By participating in the tournament, Eriksson had attracted international attention. The German club 1. FC Kaiserslautern signed the defensive player after the finals. He crowned his debut in the Bundesliga in a 1-0 win over 1. FC Köln on matchday one with the decisive goal. Despite a break due to injury, he was able to establish himself as a regular player and made 20 league appearances for the Palatinate Club. After the Czech Pavel Kuka was signed in the following year , his deployment time was also reduced due to the restrictions of the then valid foreigner regulations. Nevertheless, in the summer of 1994 he was initially part of the national team for the World Cup finals in the United States , but after another injury he had to cancel his participation.

In the spring of 1995 Eriksson returned to AIK on loan. For the Swedish club, he played seven more appearances in the Allsvenskan until the summer. He then moved to Switzerland for Servette FC Genève . For the team around players like Oliver Neuville , David Sesa and Carlos Varela , he only played half a year before returning to Sweden. This time he went to Helsingborgs IF . For the club from southern Sweden , he ran in 23 first division games and reached the team in the 1996 season third in the table behind champions IFK Göteborg and Malmö FF .

In the spring of 1997 Eriksson moved abroad again. The Premier League promoted Sunderland FC signed him for £ 250,000 in January . For the English club, which had also strengthened in the relegation battle with Chris Waddle , he only came to a league use. He then moved to Tampa Bay Mutiny in the United States , where he met his compatriot Thomas Ravelli . In 1999 he ended his active career there after 35 games due to a knee injury.

Eriksson has worked for the Swedish insurance company Skandia since 2000 .

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ findarticles.com: "Swedish ace set for Roker" (accessed July 17, 2009)
  2. ↑ a-love-supreme.com: "ALS One hit wonders XI" (accessed on July 17, 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Eriksson, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Sundsvall , Sweden