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Mikael Funny
Mikael Lustig (cropped) .jpg
Mikael Lustig (2018)
Personnel
birthday December 13, 1986
place of birth Umeå ,  Sweden
size 189 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
Sandåkerns SK
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2003 Sandåkerns SK
2004-2005 Umeå FC 32 0(1)
2005-2008 GIF Sundsvall 81 0(8)
2008-2011 Rosenborg Trondheim 95 (14)
2012-2019 Celtic Glasgow 160 (13)
2019– KAA Gent 16 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2004 Sweden U18 1 0(0)
2006-2009 Sweden U-21 21 0(1)
2008– Sweden 82 0(6)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 7, 2020

2 As of January 12, 2020

Mikael Lustig (born December 13, 1986 in Umeå ) is a Swedish football player . The defender was Norwegian and Scottish champions several times. With the Swedish national team , he took part in two European championship finals.

Career

Career start in Sweden

Lustig started playing football at Sandåkerns SK . He played for the club in 2003 in fifth-class Division 4 Södra Västerbotten before the full-back moved to third division Umeå FC in 2004 . There the young man established himself as a regular player on the left side of defense and played his way into Hans Lindbom's Swedish U-18 team towards the end of the year . With the club succeeded in promotion to the Superettan , so that he made himself interesting for higher-class clubs and in August 2005 left the club in the direction of Allsvenskan .

Lustig's new club was GIF Sundsvall , where he made eight appearances in the Allsvenskan from the 2005 season to the end of the season. With the team, he missed relegation as penultimate table and had to relegate to the Superettan. Here he finally established himself as a regular player, so that selection coach Tommy Söderberg appointed him to the Swedish U-21 selection . In the second division season 2007 he only missed a season game after being sent off and thus contributed to the fact that the club returned to the Swedish House of Lords as third in the table.

In January 2008, national coach Lars Lagerbäck called Lustig on the occasion of a tour of America in the Swedish national team . He made his international debut in the 2-0 defeat by the United States on January 19 . In the subsequent first division season he continued to convince and was in the starting line-up in 16 league games until the summer break.

Change abroad

In July 2008 Lustig moved to the Norwegian club Rosenborg Trondheim , which was overseen by his compatriot Erik Hamrén , where he was supposed to replace Fredrik Stoor, who had migrated to England , and signed a contract with a term of three and a half years. Eight million Swedish kronor was named as the transfer fee . At his new club, he soon made the leap into the starting line-up and also stayed in the Swedish U-21 selection: At the end of May, the selection coach Söderberg and Jörgen Lennartsson nominated him for the U-21 European Championship finals in his own country in the summer, where he was was one of five players in the Swedish team who played abroad. With the team he reached the semifinals of the tournament as a regular player, in which the English selection prevailed on penalties .

At club level, the parallel league season played within the calendar year was more successful for Lustig, and at the end of the 2009 season he and his team became Norwegian champions. Hamrén, meanwhile promoted to the Swedish national coach, then nominated him for the opening international games in 2010. While he subsequently established himself in the national team, he also remained a regular at club level. At the end of the 2010 season he defended the championship title with the team now trained by Nils Arne Eggen . Eggen handed over the coaching post to the Swede Jan Jönsson at the end of the season , under whom Lustig consolidated his reputation as a dangerous defender. With five goals this season he was the club's sixth top scorer behind top scorer Rade Prica , Mushaga Bakenga , John Chibuike , Jim Larsen and Morten Moldskred , but it was only enough for the club to rank third.

Series champion with Celtic and EM participation

Shortly after the end of the season, Lustig signed an agreement with Scottish club Celtic FC for a three-and-a-half-year contract that will start in January 2012. He signed this at the club competing in the Scottish Premiership shortly before the turn of the year. He made his debut for the new club in the league match against FC Aberdeen in March 2012. By the end of the 2011/12 season , he came on three more missions and was with the team Scottish champions. He had already qualified for the 2012 European Championship with the national team. There Lustig was used in two group games, but failed with the selection in the group stage.

In the following season 2012/13 Lustig was used under team manager Neil Lennon 23 times and scored three goals, the first of which against Hibernian Edinburgh in September 2012. With the victory in the cup final at the end of the season, in which the defender used over 90 minutes came, and the early successful title defense in the Premier League , he won the double for the first time in his career . While he dominated the Scottish championship with the club, he missed participation in the 2014 World Cup tournament in the play-off games against Portugal in autumn 2013 . Also in the UEFA Champions League 2013/14 the big success was missing: although the team qualified for the group stage, with only one win and in particular a 1: 6 defeat in the last group game against FC Barcelona , Lustig's team said goodbye early on Competition. In December, however, he agreed with the club on a contract extension, but in the second half of the season he missed a number of games due to injury. The 2014/15 season was also overshadowed by injury problems, so that he was only used irregularly under the new coach Ronny Deila .

In the 2015/16 season, Lustig established himself again as a regular in Celtics Defensive and was also a regular in the Swedish national team when they qualified for the 2016 European Championship . With Celtic he defended the title in the top Scottish league for the fourth time in a row and traveled as the reigning champion to the European Championship finals in France , for which Hamrén accepted him into the Swedish squad in mid-May . In the opening encounter against Ireland he was in the starting line-up, but had to be replaced at half time due to a strain. In the remaining two games he was no longer used. Sweden were eliminated after the group stage.

Change to KAA Gent

At the end of the 2018/19 season, his contract with Celtic Glasgow ended and was not renewed. On June 21, 2019, Lustig signed a contract with Belgian first division KAA Gent until 2022 .

successes

with Rosenborg Trondheim

with Celtic Glasgow

Web links

Commons : Mikael Lustig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mikael Lustig in the database of altomfotball.no (accessed on November 28, 2011)
  2. ↑ ufc.se: "Mikael Lustig lämnar UFC för GIF Sundsvall" ( Memento from October 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 14, 2009)
  3. ↑ mobil.sr.se: "Lustig lämnar Sundsvall för Rosenborg"  ( 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 June 14, 2009)@1@ 2Template: dead link / mobil.sr.se  
  4. ↑ aftonbladet.se: "Lustig avslutning för Mikael" (accessed on June 14, 2009)
  5. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "U21 gentleman: EM troops uttagen" (accessed on June 14, 2009)
  6. ↑ bbc.com: "Celtic agree pre-contract deal with Mikael Lustig" (accessed on June 13, 2016)
  7. ↑ celticfc.net: "Manager's delight at Lustig signing" ( Memento from September 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 21, 2019, English)
  8. ↑ BBC Sport: "Aberdeen brought Celtic's run of 17 successive league wins to an end with a spirited draw at Pittodrie." (Accessed September 24, 2013)
  9. ↑ BBC Sport: "Celtic paid the price for missed chances as Hibs twice pegged them back." (Accessed September 24, 2013)
  10. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "EM troops uttagen" (accessed on June 13, 2016)
  11. ↑ Sweden's Lustig is still missing , sport.de, June 16, 2016
  12. ^ Bruno Verscheure: Un international suédois à La Gantoise. In: sport.be. Jupiler League, June 21, 2019, accessed June 21, 2019 (French).
  13. ↑ vlcome Mikael Lustig. KAA Gent, June 21, 2019, accessed on June 21, 2019 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Funny, Mikael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1986