Lars Zetterlund

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Lars Åke Zetterlund (born February 11, 1964 in Härnösand ) is a Swedish former football player . The midfielder , who won national and international titles with AIK and IFK Göteborg , made his playing career in Sweden and Scotland. After retiring, he moved to the coaching bench.

Career

Breakthrough at AIK and European Cup triumph with IFK Göteborg

Zetterlund joined the youth department of IF Älgarna in 1971 . There he went through the individual youth teams and moved up to the adult team in 1980, where he ran up alongside his father Karl-Åke Zetterlund . At the same time he also played ice hockey for the club .

Before the first division season in 1981 , his uncle Rolf Zetterlund had taken over the coaching position at AIK in the Allsvenskan . If he had previously observed his nephew's development, he brought him to the Stockholm club. There he first played in the youth team and at the same time gave up playing ice hockey. He had made his competitive debut for the club's first team in August 1982 on the occasion of a cup match against IS Halmia , he made his debut in September of that year in the 0-0 draw Örgryte IS as a substitute for Jan Eriksson in the Allsvenskan. At the end of the month he was in the starting line-up for the first time in the 2-2 draw against Halmstads BK and was also involved in the relegation games against local rivals Djurgårdens IF , which ended successfully. In the next four years he played 101 league games in a row, only in the 0-3 away defeat at Gefle IF in May 1983 he was not in the starting eleven.

At the side of Göran Göransson , Jyrki Nieminen , Bernt Ljung , Ove Rübsamen and Björn Kindlund , Zetterlund led the team back to the top of the league. At the end of the 1983 league leader, she was eliminated in the semi-finals of the championship play-offs against eventual champions IFK Göteborg. Two years later, they missed making it back to the finals, but the season was crowned with the first title win since winning the Cup in 1976: the team won the cup final on penalties against Östers IF at home in Råsunda Stadium, and Zetterlund converted his penalty. In the 1986 season he was with the team again before winning the title. As third in the table qualified for the championship finals, he reached the final against Malmö FF . A 1-0 home win was achieved in the first leg after a penalty converted by Mats Olausson . The second leg was dominated by the competitor, in which Lasse Larsson shone as a triple and Mats Magnusson as a two-time goalscorer, with a 5-2 win. This was the last game of Zetterlund in the AIK jersey, who moved on to league rivals IFK Göteborg.

Under coach Gunder Bengtsson Zetterlund moved with the team on the side of Thomas Wernerson , Mats-Ola Carlsson , Michael Andersson , Stefan Pettersson and Stig Fredriksson after wins over Inter Milan and FC Swarovski Tirol in the final of the UEFA Cup in 1986/87 , a . In the finals against the Scottish representative Dundee United , he was a substitute shortly before the end of the game and thus participated in the second European Cup victory in the club's history. After Bengtsson left the club, his successor Kjell Pettersson led the club to the championship title after a third place in the table at the end of the season after successes over IFK Norrköping and last year's champions Malmö FF. After winning the European Cup and winning the championship, several top performers such as Glenn Hysén , Peter Larsson , Jari Rantanen or Tord Holmgren left the club, the team slipped in the table. After the end of the 1989 season , in which the club had clearly missed the championship finals as seventh in the table, the former youth coach Roger Gustafsson took over the coaching post. In the course of the generation change, Zetterlund's contract was not extended.

Long years with Örebro SK and move to Scotland

Lars Zetterlund in the Dundee United Jersey (1998)
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Zetterlund switched to Örebro SK , where he again met Rolf Zetterlund as a coach. Right away team regular he reached with the team to Pär Millqvist , Christer Fursth , Magnus Erling Mark and Sven Dahlkvist in the season 1990 Ranking third the championship finals, where he retired against his former club IFK Gothenburg in the semifinals. In the following year due to injury - he played six of the 18 possible league games and four of the ten championship final rounds - he then did not miss a league game until the end of the 1994 season. At times involved in the relegation battle, he finished second in the table in 1994 behind series champion IFK Göteborg. In the following two years he was at the side of players like Dan Sahlin , Sigurður Jónsson , Mirosław Kubisztal and Niclas Rasck Stammkraft. At the end of the 1996 season , he said goodbye to the club after 131 league games.

In late October 1996, Zetterlund signed a contract with Dundee United. With Erik Pedersen and Kjell Olofsson he formed a Scandinavian trio, which coach Tommy McLean had signed shortly after he took office in autumn that year and later strengthened with Magnus Sköldmark , Göran Marklund and Sigurður Jónsson. He quickly established himself in the team and was a regular in Scotland until the end of the season. At the side of Robbie Winters , Maurice Malpas and Steven Pressley he reached the 1998 final of the Scottish League Cup with the team , in which Celtic Glasgow prevailed with goals from Marc Rieper , Henrik Larsson and Craig Burley with a 3-0 win . After he had been signaled in the course of 1998 that his contract, which expired in summer 1999, would not be renewed, the club allowed him to move back to Örebro SK early in March 1999.

At the side of Per Gawelin , Mats Rubarth and Fredrik Nordback , Zetterlund was a regular straight away and helped the team to stay in the league in the 1999 and 2000 seasons . Then he was only used irregularly and ended his career in higher-class football in 2002.

Career conclusion and start of the coaching career

As a player-coach, Zetterlund joined the third division IF Heimer in early 2003 . In his second season with the club he rose to the end of the season in the third division, but ended his engagement with the club in late 2005 after the direct relegation as a result of a league reform. He then signed on to the fourth division IFK Eskilstuna , where he was inherited by Pascal Simpson in the fall of that year .

Later Zetterlund was the coach of the second agency of Örebro SK. In 2009 he led ÖSK Ungdom into the fourth class division 2 . After the end of the season, however, he turned his back on the club.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ heraldscotland.com: "Hughes set for Easter Road" (accessed January 24, 2011)
  2. ↑ heraldscotland.com: "Lars moves back to Orebro" (accessed on January 24, 2011)
  3. ↑ na.se: "" Zäta "lämnar ÖSK Ungdom" ( Memento from December 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 24, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Zetterlund, Lars
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zetterlund, Lars Åke (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Harnösand