Marcus Allbäck

Marcus Allbäck
Allbäck in May 2010
Personnel
Surname	Marcus Christian Allbäck
birthday	5th July 1973
place of birth	Gothenburg ,  Sweden
size	180 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1992-1997	Örgryte IS	139 (52)
1997	Lyngby FC	4 0(1)
1997-1998	AS Bari	16 0(0)
1999-2000	Örgryte IS	64 (34)
2000-2002	SC Heerenveen	48 (25)
2002-2004	Aston Villa	35 0(6)
2004-2005	Hansa Rostock	23 0(4)
2005-2008	FC Copenhagen	70 (28)
2008-2009	Örgryte IS	30 0(8)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1999-2008	Sweden	73 (30)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2009–	Sweden (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Marcus Christian Allbäck (born July 5, 1973 in Gothenburg ) is a former Swedish football player . The striker took part in two world and three European championships with the Swedish national team.

Career

As a child, Allbäck became a member of the Örgryte IS association , a district association from his hometown Gothenburg . His father Stefan was an active player there at the time and is now the club's manager. Allbäck was a professional at Lyngby FC and AS Bari before returning to his home club and becoming a top performer there. In 2000 he was appointed to the Swedish national team for the first time. At the beginning of the 2001/2002 season he moved to the Dutch club SC Heerenveen .

His breakthrough in the national team came in 2001 when he scored two goals against Moldova in Chișinău , thereby securing three important points in the World Cup qualification for Sweden. In the following game against Slovakia he scored twice again - he became a regular player. At the 2002 World Cup , he and Henrik Larsson formed the attack of the Swedish team. After only one season with Heerenveen, he moved to Aston Villa , but got less and less playing time and therefore lost his regular place in the national team to Zlatan Ibrahimović . In 2004 he moved to Hansa Rostock , but after relegation from the Bundesliga, he left the club after only one season and moved on to FC Copenhagen .

In the summer of 2008 Allbäck announced that he would return to his home club Örgryte IS after the European Championship in Sweden . With five goals in twelve appearances in the second division season in 2008, he helped the club to the second division championship and thus to return to the Allsvenskan. Shortly after the start of the first division season in 2009 , he suffered a serious knee injury. In total, he brought it to 18 games by the end of the season, so that he could not help his club in the relegation battle with three goals and was relegated with him from the first division.

At the beginning of November 2009 Allbäck ended his active playing career to join the coaching staff of the newly hired Swedish national coach Erik Hamrén as "Players Manager" .

Allbäck is married to his wife Suzanne and has two children.

successes

• World Cup participations: Soccer World Cup 2002 and Soccer World Cup 2006
• European Championship participations: European Football Championship 2000 , European Football Championship 2004 and European Football Championship 2008

• Swedish cup winner: 2000
• Top scorer in the Swedish league : 1999
• In the third group match in Group B at the 2006 World Cup, England vs. Sweden scored the 2000th goal in the history of the FIFA World Cup
• Danish football champion 2006 and 2007

Sporty criticism

The sports magazine Kicker judged Allbäck's qualities as follows in its special issue "EM 2008":

A team-friendly striker with a large radius of action and an eye for the man next to him. Also works a lot backwards.

Web links

• Marcus Allbäck's official homepage ( Memento from August 18, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
• Marcus Allbäck in the database of weltfussball.de
• Marcus Allbäck in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “Allbäck klar för Örgryte” - article at fotbollsexpressen.se ( memento of the original from June 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 11, 2008) 
2. ↑ sydsvenskan.se: "Marcus Allbäck knäskadad" ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2009 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. (accessed on January 25, 2010) 
3. ↑ sydsvenskan.se: "Marcus Allbäck blir assisterande kapten" ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2010 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. (accessed on January 25, 2010)