Kent Lundqvist

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Kent Lundqvist (born May 21, 1957 ) is a former Swedish football player .

Athletic career

Lundqvist comes from the youth of the Linköpinger club BK Derby , with whom he became Swedish junior champion in 1972. At the age of 15 he made his debut in the competition team, which at the time was successful in the second division. In early 1976 he moved to IFK Norrköping in the Allsvenskan , where he formed the club's offensive together with Leif Andersson and Pär-Olof Ohlsson . After 13 goals this season in his debut season, he was involved in the 1977 season with six goals in reaching fourth place in the table, which led to qualification for the 1978/79 UEFA Cup . There, however, the team was eliminated in the first round against Hibernian Edinburgh from Scotland, in both games he was in the starting line-up. In the 1980 season he scored eleven goals for the first time since his debut season in double digits, but it wasn't until the following year that he was third in the table again for the European Cup . While he had lost his regular place in the relegation battle in the 1982 season , the team reached the second round of the 1982/83 UEFA Cup against Southampton FC . There he came on as a substitute in the second leg against AS Roma when the game had already gone into extra time. The Swedish club failed on penalties , although Lundqvist was the first IFK Norrköping shooter to fail to convert his penalty .

After losing relegation to the Gothenburg club BK Häcken at the end of the 1982 season , Lundqvist went into the second division with the club. There he scored 15 goals in 20 games this season and was thus instrumental in the championship in the northern season in front of Djurgårdens IF . However, he left the club after 188 league games in which he had scored 65 goals, before returning to the Allsvenskan and returned to Linköping, where he joined the Linköpings FF , in which his youth club BK Derby had risen in the meantime.

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SURNAME Lundqvist, Kent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1957