Klas Ingesson

Klas Ingesson
1994 FIFA World Cup
Personnel
birthday	20th August 1968
place of birth	Ödeshög ,  Sweden
date of death	October 29, 2014
Place of death	Ödeshög ,  Sweden
size	190 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1987-1990	IFK Gothenburg	53 0(9)
1990-1993	KV Mechelen	99 (28)
1993-1994	PSV Eindhoven	12 0(1)
1994-1995	Sheffield Wednesday	17 0(2)
1996-1998	AS Bari	94 (11)
1998-2000	Bologna FC	64 0(4)
2000	Olympique Marseille	13 0(0)
2001	US Lecce	19 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1989-1998	Sweden	57 (13)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2013-2014	IF Elfsborg
1 Only league games are given.

Klas Ingesson (born August 20, 1968 in Ödeshög ; † October 29, 2014 there ) was a Swedish football player and coach . The midfielder took part in two world and one European championship finals with the Swedish national team and scored 13 goals in 57 international matches between 1989 and 1998 . After starting his career at Allsvenskan at IFK Göteborg , he played as a professional footballer in Belgium, the Netherlands, England, Italy and France. As coach of IF Elfsborg , he won the Swedish national cup .

Career

Career start in Sweden and national team debut

Ingesson played in his youth at Ödeshögs IK in his birthplace. In 1986 he joined IFK Göteborg . Under coach Gunder Bengtsson he was initially mainly used as a substitute. So he watched the two final games of the 1987 UEFA Cup against Scottish club Dundee United , which the team won 2-1 on aggregate from the stands. Even when he won the championship in the 1987 season , he was only a supplementary player on the side of Glenn Hysén , Thomas Wernersson , Roland Nilsson , Stig Fredriksson , Stefan Pettersson and Lars Zetterlund .

In the following season Ingesson established himself as a regular player under the new coach Kjell Pettersson . He was also able to convince in the European Cup of National Champions in 1988/89 and reached the quarter-finals with the team, in which they failed to Steaua Bucharest . With his performances he had drawn the attention of national coach Olle Nordin to himself. On May 31, 1989, he made his debut on the occasion of a friendly against Algeria in the Swedish national team, when he came on in the 26th minute of play for Robert Prytz . Seven minutes later he scored his first international goal, which he followed in the second half with the goal to make it 2-0. While he had missed an international competition at club level with the club as seventh in the table at the end of the season, he established himself in the national team and was on the pitch in the decisive qualifying games for the 1990 World Cup . The following summer he was number 10 in the squad at the final tournament and was used in all three tournament games when the selection team was eliminated from the bottom of the group.

Between Belgium, the Netherlands, England and Italy - years abroad

Following the World Cup tournament, Ingesson left Sweden and joined the Belgian club KV Mechelen . At the side of players like René Eijkelkamp , Marc Wilmots , Bruno Versavel and Philippe Albert he finished second in the Belgian championship with his new employer behind RSC Anderlecht . He also moved into the cup final with the team, which Club Brugge won 3-1. In the following year, the team reached the cup final; this time Royal Antwerp prevailed on penalties . In the same year he took part with the national team at the 1992 European Championships in Sweden. At the first European Championship participation of the Swedish selection he was one of the top performers and won the group with the team in front of England , France and the later European champions Denmark . In the semi-finals, his fourth tournament appearance, he was eliminated with the team against the then world champion Germany .

After another season at KV Mechelen, which Ingesson ended with the club as third in the table, he moved to the Netherlands. At PSV Eindhoven , he did not really gain a foothold alongside Peter Hoekstra , Erwin Koeman , Jan Wouters , Jan Heintze and Gheorghe Popescu . Nevertheless, he stayed in the national team with which he took part in the 1994 World Cup. There he used national coach Tommy Svensson in all seven finals when the team reached the semi-finals for the first time since the 1958 World Cup finals. In the quarterfinals he converted a penalty in a penalty shoot-out against Romania . After the elimination against Brazil , he won the bronze medal with the selection by a 4-0 victory in the game for third place against Bulgaria . Due to the success he was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet gold medal with the team .

Already during the tournament there were first reports that Ingesson would leave PSV Eindhoven. It was not until the end of August, however, before the midfielder , who was no longer considered by Aad de Mos, came to England with Sheffield Wednesday . However, his time in England was just as unsuccessful as his stay in the Netherlands. In the team around players like Mark Bright , Des Walker , Peter Atherton , Dan Petrescu or Chris Waddle , he was unable to establish himself permanently.

In November 1995 Ingesson moved to Italy after four league appearances at the beginning of the 1995/96 Premier League season . With the AS Bari he played against relegation in the Serie A . Although his teammate Igor Protti was the top scorer in the top Italian division, the club was relegated. Ingesson remained loyal to the club in Serie B and made it back to the table in fourth place. The team strengthened with the new signings Phil Masinga , Gianluca Zambrotta and Francesco Mancini held the class as eleventh in the table. As a professional in Italy, he continued to run for the national team. With the team, however, after qualifying for the European Championship in 1996, he had also missed participation in the 1998 World Championship finals . In the spring of 1998, he finally came to his last international match in a World Cup preparation game against Spain . After his 57th international match, which ended in a 4-0 defeat, he resigned from the national team.

Ingesson left AS Bari in the summer of 1998 and moved on to league rivals FC Bologna , where he met his compatriots Kennet Andersson and Teddy Lučić . As a regular player, he reached the main round of the 1998/99 UEFA Cup with the club via the UEFA Intertoto Cup . There he reached the semi-finals of the competition with the team after successes over Sporting Lisbon , Slavia Prague , Betis Seville and Olympique Lyon . Against the French representative Olympique Marseille he was eliminated from the competition on the side of Giuseppe Signori , Giovanni Bia , Giancarlo Marocchi and Francesco Antonioli after a 0-0 win in France and a 1-1 draw at home due to the away goals rule . When after a ninth place in 1999 and an eleventh place in the table in the following season, the return to the European Cup was missed, he turned his back on the club. He signed a contract with Olympique Marseille. In the French Ligue 1 , he could not establish himself as a regular player and soon returned to Italy. He ended his career with US Lecce in 2001.

After active sport

After his career ended, Ingesson returned to Sweden. In 2004 he worked briefly as an assistant coach at IF Elfsborg . In May 2009 he announced that he had a myeloma disease. He later returned to IF Elfsborg as a youth coach.

On September 30, 2013 Ingesson, up to then U-19 coach, took over the position of head coach at IF Elfsborg as the successor to the dismissed Jörgen Lennartsson in the role of a manager based on the English model. The following May he led the team to win the Swedish National Cup - sitting in a wheelchair because of his cancer . In the final, Helsingborgs IF was defeated 1-0 by a goal from Lars Nilsson as league rivals . Still, his time on the sidelines was marked by cancer; In mid-October 2014 he announced his departure from IFE at the end of the season.

Ingesson, who left behind his wife and two children, died on the night of October 29, 2014 as a result of cancer diagnosed in 2009.

Web links

• Klas Ingesson in the database of weltfussball.de
• Edition of Epilepsia with interview with Ingesson (PDF; 2.6 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sorg efter beskedet om Ingessons död. In: Svenska Dagbladet , October 29, 2014 (Swedish, accessed October 29, 2014).
2. ↑ Sweden is for sale. In: Berliner Zeitung , July 14, 1994.
3. ↑ Ingesson represents to Engeland, Kieft is to loopbaan. In: Trouw , August 29, 1994 (Dutch).
4. ↑ Klas Ingesson sjuk i cancer. In: Dagens Nyheter , May 14, 2014 (Swedish).
5. ↑ Tränarbytet - en del i satsningen inför 2014. ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: elfsborg.se , September 30, 2013 (Swedish). 
6. ↑ fotbolldirekt.se: "EXTRA: Ingesson lämnar Elfsborg: 'Det känns bittert'" (accessed on October 29, 2014)
7. ↑ IF Elfsborg och fotbolls-Sverige har cares. ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: elfsborg.se , October 29, 2014 (Swedish). 
8. ↑ Former Swedish international Ingesson died of cancer. In: Focus , October 29, 2014.