Michael Andersson (soccer player)

Michael Andersson (1982)
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Michael "Micke" Andersson (born August 24, 1959 ) is a Swedish former football player . After his active career, the midfielder , who played eight times for the Swedish national team, took on coaching and official duties.

Career

Player career

Andersson played at Älvsjö AIK when he was young , before joining Hammarby IF in 1979 at the age of 19 . At the side of Kenneth Ohlsson , Thom Åhlund , Mats Werner and Ulf Eriksson , he was immediately a regular in the Allsvenskan . As a result, national coach Georg Ericson nominated him for the first time for the national team in the fall of that year. After he was irregularly on the field under club coach Bengt Gustavsson in the following seasons, he contributed under his successor Bengt Persson in the 1982 season to reach the final of the championship, in which the team was defeated IFK Göteborg .

While Andersson was eliminated with the team in the following season in the quarter-finals of the championship against local rivals AIK , he reached the final of the national cup with her . Again the club met IFK Göteborg and had to end the season without a title after a 0-1 defeat after extra time. Due to the championship of the competitor, however, the club moved into the European Cup Winners' Cup 1983/84 , but failed against Valkeakosken Haka in the second round after extra time. In the 1984 season , Andersson advanced to a dangerous attacking player and was with seven goals this season behind Billy Ohlsson and Peter Gerhardsson third-best scorer of the club, with whom he reached the semi-finals for the championship. He and the team around Thomas Lundin , Tomas Turesson and Per Holmberg qualified for the UEFA Cup , in which he was a double scorer in the 3-3 draw against Scottish club FC St. Mirren . Against the German representative 1. FC Köln he failed in the third round after a 2-1 home win by a 1: 3 away defeat, although he had shot the club in the Müngersdorfer Stadion in Cologne .

Andersson followed an offer from IFK Göteborg before the start of the 1987 season . At the side of Stefan Pettersson , Lars Zetterlund , Thomas Wernersson and Roland Nilsson , he moved into the final of the 1986/87 UEFA Cup against Scottish club Dundee United . After a 1-0 win with a goal from Pettersson in the first leg, the team supervised by Gunder Bengtsson brought the trophy to Sweden with a 1-1 draw after goals from Lennart Nilsson and John Clark in the second leg. At the end of the year she only finished third in regular time, after successes over IFK Norrköping and Malmö FF in the championship finals, she also won the Von Rosens Cup for the Swedish national championship. In the following season he failed with the club in the semi-finals at Stockholm club Djurgårdens IF .

After 36 games in the regular season, in which he had scored nine goals, Andersson returned to Hammarby IF in early 1989, who was now in second class. With five goals this season, he contributed to the club's return to the Allsvenskan. After the direct relegation he reached the Kvalsvenskan with the team as the leader of the spring season . There the club just missed the return to the top class. After the end of the season, he ended his active career.

After active football

Andersson initially took over the coaching post at the lower class occurring Nacka FF , before he took over Spårvägens FF in 1995 . The previous year’s relegated team dominated his third division season and rose nine points ahead of Tyresö FF, who was second in the table, directly back into the second division. There he reached third place in the table with the newcomer, so that despite a mediocre season in 1997 he had attracted higher class attention.

Djurgårdens IF, relegated from Allsvenskan, hired him in autumn 1997 as a new coach. If the club had missed promotion last year as second in the table in the relegation games against the first division side Östers IF , he returned with the team as the season winner in the Allsvenskan. There she was, however, in a relegation battle. Therefore, the club fired him in July 1999.

In 2000 Andersson took over a relegated team again with Malmö FF. He led the club back to Allsvenskan as runner-up behind his former coaching station Djurgårdens IF. In the first division season 2001 he reached the ninth place in the table with the team around Jimmy Tamandi , Peter Ijeh , Jonnie Fedel and Mats Lilienberg . However, he had fallen out with the board and was replaced by Tom Prahl at the end of the season .

After Andersson had been the sports director of the second division IFK Norrköping from 2004 , he took over the position of managing director at his former game station Hammarby IF in March 2008. After a year and a half in office, he announced his retirement in October 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ dif.se: “Micke Andersson i slutförhandlingar med Djurgården”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 30, 2010)  
2. ↑ sydsvenskan.se: "Sprickan i MFF som bara blivit större"  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 30, 2010)  
3. ↑ svt.se: "" Micke "Andersson Hammarbys nye VD"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 30, 2010)  
4. ↑ fotbollskanalen.se: "REPRESENTATIVE: Micke Andersson slutar i Hammarby" (accessed on September 30, 2010)

Web links

• Michael Andersson in the database of weltfussball.de