Lars Lagerbäck

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Lars Lagerbäck
Lars Lagerbäck in Jan 2014.jpg
Lars Lagerbäck (2014)
Personnel
Surname Lars Lagerbäck
birthday July 16, 1948
place of birth Katrineholm ,  Sweden
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1960-1969 Gimonäs CK
1970-1974 Alby FF
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1977-1982 Kilafors IF
1983-1985 Arbrå BK
1987-1989 Hudiksvalls ABK
1990-1995 Sweden U-21
1996-1997 Sweden B
1998-1999 Sweden assistant coach
2000-2009 Sweden
2010 Nigeria
2011-2016 Iceland
2017– Norway
1 Only league games are given.

Lars Lagerbäck (born July 16, 1948 in Katrineholm ) is a Swedish football coach . He is best known for coaching the Swedish and Icelandic national teams .

He is currently the coach of the Norwegian national team .

Career

Playing career and beginning as a club coach

As an active player, Lagerbäck never played higher than in the Swedish third division. His first station was between 1960 and 1969 Gimonäs CK , then he played from 1970 to 1974 with Alby FF . After the end of his time as an active player, he became a coach at the also lower-class clubs Kilafors IF , Arbrå BK and Hudiksvalls ABK .

Time as association and national coach

After his time as a coach with club teams, Lagerbäck moved to the Swedish Football Association in 1990 , where he was the coach of the Swedish U-21s until 1995 and then from 1996 to 1997 the coach of the national B team. In 1997 he became assistant to Tommy Söderberg , who coached the Swedish national team. In 2000 he became an equal partner of Söderberg and formed a coaching duo with him. Together with Söderberg, he looked after Sweden at the 2002 World Cup and the 2004 European Championship . After the European Championships, Söderberg resigned from his position, so that from now on Lagerbäck led the Swedish national team as sole head coach.

Lagerbäck qualified with Sweden for the 2006 World Cup and thus again for a major tournament. Second in the group with England, Trinidad and Tobago and Paraguay, the Swedes met Germany in the round of 16 and were eliminated from the tournament after a 2-0 defeat. Lagerbäck's casual approach to the resignation led to calls for resignation in Sweden. However, he remained in office and reached the European Championship 2008 with the selection , so that the national team took part in five consecutive tournaments for the first time in its history. The association then extended its contract until 2010.

The qualification for the 2010 World Cup turned out to be mixed for Lagerbäck's team. Although the national team only lost their two games against eventual group winners Denmark , they ultimately finished third after Portugal after three more draws and thus missed out on the finals. In this case, Lagerbäck and his assistant Roland Andersson had announced their resignation before the final group game against Albania .

At the end of February 2010, Lagerbäck took over the position of coach for the Nigerian national team . After the World Cup, his engagement in Nigeria ended.

On October 14, 2011, Lagerbäck took over the Icelandic national team . Previously, he was also a hot candidate for the national coaching post of Austria . Together with Heimir Hallgrímsson , who was initially his assistant coach and from 2013 an equal national coach, he led the Icelanders to the 2016 European Championship and thus their first participation in a major football tournament. They eliminated the World Cup third Netherlands in qualifying . In the final round, they were also able to beat England 2-1 in the round of 16 , against whom the Icelanders had never won. In the quarter-finals, in which he sat on the bench for the 200th time as national coach at an international match, the Icelanders failed 5-2 to hosts France . This ended his activity as Icelandic national coach, but Lagerbäck left it open what he would do next.

In January 2017, Lagerbäck became the coach of the Norwegian national team .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ venskfotboll.se: Swedish Football Association: Förbundskapten / National team coach (Swedish)
  2. ↑ de.euro2008.uefa.com: Information on Lars Lagerbäck ( Memento from May 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in the Internet Archive
  3. ↑ focus.de: "Lagerbäck will remain on Sweden's bank until 2010" (accessed on October 15, 2009)
  4. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "Förbundskaptenerna slutar vid missat VM" (accessed on October 15, 2009) (Swedish)
  5. ↑ goal.com: World Cup participants Nigeria: Lagerbäck new coach Article from March 9, 2010
  6. ↑ http://de.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=1310438.html#shittu+wir+brauchen+stabilitat
  7. ↑ http://newsticker.sueddeutsche.de/list/id/1218555 ( Memento from October 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Florian Lütticke, Jens Marx: Homecoming of the heroes. In: saechsische.de. July 5, 2016, accessed April 13, 2020 .
  9. ↑ kicker.de: Lagerbäck should get Norway on track , accessed on February 1, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Lagerbäck, Lars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish football player, coach of the Swedish national football team
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Katrineholm