Niclas Kindvall

Bengt Niclas Kindvall (born February 19, 1967 in Rotterdam ) is a former Swedish football player who played six times for the Swedish national team between 1992 and 1994 . The son of the multiple national player and international professional Ove Kindvall became the Allsvenskan top scorer in 1994, 28 years after his father . After retiring from his career, he worked as a journalist .

Career

Born in the Netherlands while his father was abroad, Kindvall moved to Sweden with his family in 1971. There he started playing football at Hagahöjdens BK in 1973 . From 1974 to 1982 he played in the youth division of Hovås IF before moving to the youth division of Älvsjö AIK .

In 1987 Kindvall went to AIK , for which he made his professional debut as a substitute on May 1 of that year in the Allsvenskan. He quickly established himself in the starting line-up of the club from Solna and contributed with two goals to keep the league at the end of the 1987 season . Under the new coach Sanny Åslund , who mainly used him in midfield, he remained a regular. Especially since the team only 19 goals this season - Thomas Johansson alone scored ten goals - they fought to stay up until the end of the season. Virtually on the last matchday temporarily on a relegation zone, the club benefited from a 1: 1 equalization of the Gothenburg club Örgryte IS in the second half against the competitor Östers IF , who threw them back to the relegation zone and despite a 1: 2 defeat against GIF Sundsvall existed until the end of the game. Again used on the offensive, he shone as a goalscorer in the following two years. With six and five goals this season, respectively, he was the club's best internal goalscorer ahead of Björn Kindlund , Kim Bergstrand and Bo Andersson .

After 73 appearances in which he scored 13 goals, he followed Åslund in early 1991 to league rivals IFK Norrköping , who had succeeded in the top third of the table in previous years. In the 1991 season temporarily slowed down by injuries, he was one of the guarantors of the runner-up behind IFK Göteborg in the championship series . He played in the Swedish national team , for which he in the opening international match of the year following the 0: 0 draw against Australia debuted. However, the following season was overshadowed by bad luck with injuries, so that he only played seven games of the season and remained without further international appearances. In the 1993 season he returned to the regular formation and scored six goals in the runner-up again. After the departure of Kennet Andersson and Patrik Andersson , the top scorers of the previous year, he was the undisputed figure in the storm of his club. With 23 goals this season, he won the title of top scorer in the 1994 season . At the same time, he returned to the national team in the spring and came mainly as a substitute for another five international appearances until the summer, during which he did not score. However , he was not included in the squad at the 1994 World Cup in summer.

As a result, he was also noticed abroad and Kindvall moved to Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga . In the first three games he scored twice, but then he was not lucky. His stay in Germany was therefore not marked by success and after 19 games in which he could not add another goal to the two goals, he returned to Sweden in 1996 and signed with Malmö FF . Here he played until 2000, before he ended his career with the lower-class clubs Bara GIF and BK Näset .

Kindvall now works at TV4 and Realtid.se .

Web links

• Niclas Kindvall on the aik.se website
• Niclas Kindvall in the database of weltfussball.de
• Niclas Kindvall in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ aik.se: "Fotbollsåret 1988 - Målsnålt AIK en halvtimme från nedflyttning"  ( 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 November 5, 2012)