Niclas Nylén
| Niclas Nylén | ||
 Niclas Nylén in the jersey of Malmö FF
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Niclas Larsson-Nylén | |
| birthday | March 21, 1966 | |
| place of birth | Malmo , Sweden | |
| size | 180 cm | |
| position | Defensive Midfield | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1984 | BK Olimpic | 7 (1) |
| 1984-1985 | FK Vojvodina Novi Sad | 2 (0) |
| 1985-1987 | BK Olimpic | 42 (8) |
| 1987-1994 | Malmö FF | 159 (15) |
| 1994-1995 | Ayr United | 2 (0) |
| 1995-1996 | Malmö FF | 38 (1) |
| 1996 | Stuttgart Kickers | 12 (1) |
| 1997 | Cosenza Calcio 1914 | 7 (0) |
| 1997 | Dalian Shide | 15 (2) |
| 1998 | Halmstads BK | 9 (2) |
| 1998-1999 | VfB Leipzig | 32 (2) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1989-1990 | Sweden | 8 (1) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of December 20, 2012 |
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Niclas Nylén , until 1990 Niclas Larsson , (born March 21, 1966 in Malmö , Sweden ) is a former Swedish football player . The defensive player, who played in Sweden, Yugoslavia, Germany, Scotland, China and Italy, took part with the Swedish national team in the 1990 World Cup.
Career
Career start
Nylén began playing football at Malmö club BK Olimpic , where he ran up on the side of the later Allsvenskan player Peter Hillgren . At a youth tournament he was noticed by those responsible for FK Vojvodina Novi Sad who signed him in the summer of 1984. There was a short interlude in Yugoslavia, so that he soon returned to his home club. In the following two years he ran for the third division team in the Skåne relay and took places with him in the middle of the table.
Success with Malmö FF and national team calling
The young player had höherklassig attracts attention and joined before the first league season in 1987 the Malmo FF on. With last year's champions coached by Roy Hodgson , he led the table as a supplementary player who made five league appearances after regular time with five points ahead of IFK Norrköping and, after two wins against Östers IF in the championship finals, reached the final against IFK Göteborg . The team coached by Gunder Bengtsson was third in the regular season, but prevailed after a 1-0 home win and a 1-2 away defeat due to the away goals rule and won the championship. In his second year, the defensive player established himself as a regular. Once again he reached the finals of the championship finals with the club as leaders. In a clash with Stockholm club Djurgårdens IF , the Malmö club won the second leg after a goalless draw in the first leg with a 7-3 win, so that Nylén won the first title of his career.
In the 1989 season for the third time in a row they made it to the championship final, this time Nylén and the team had to admit defeat to IFK Norrköping . Nevertheless, he managed to win the title in the course of the year, as he and his team won the cup final. Due to his good performances over the course of the season he had played his way into the notebook of the Swedish national coach Olle Nordin . As part of qualifying for the World Cup finals in Italy, he made his debut on May 7, 1989 in a 2-1 win over Poland in the blue and gold jersey and scored the winning goal in stoppage time, which was the goal for the Swedes to play for the first time since the World Cup 1978 bumped wide. As a result, he stayed in the national team, but was mainly used as a substitute.
After Nylén changed his name at the beginning of 1990, Nordin included him in the squad for the World Cup finals in the summer of that year, in the three 2-1 defeats in the group stage against Costa Rica , Brazil and Scotland , he followed from the bench . Following the tournament, he remained loyal to his club, even if the successes failed to materialize under Hodgson's successors Bob Houghton and Viggo Jensen . Although he moved with the team in the 1991 and 1992 seasons again in the championship finals, which are now played in league mode, the club took places there in the rear. Following the 1994 season he left the club on loan and played for the Scottish club Ayr United during the winter break . After his return to Sweden at the beginning of the following year he was again one of the regulars under coach Rolf Zetterlund and helped the club to the runner-up behind IFK Göteborg in the 1996 season .
Years abroad and return to Sweden
In September 1996 Nylén left his home country again. He signed a contract with the German club Stuttgarter Kickers , which was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga in the summer . Until the winter break, he played twelve games alongside Markus Sailer , Ralf Strogies , Adnan Kevrić and Markus Lösch , in which he scored a goal against SC Fortuna Köln . In winter, he moved again to the club and joined Cosenza Calcio 1914 in the Italian Serie B at. He stayed here only briefly to seek his luck at the Chinese club Dalian Shide . At the end of 1997 he returned to Sweden as champion of the Chinese Super League .
In the first half of 1998 Nylén ran for Halmstads BK in the Allsvenskan. In the summer he again accepted an offer from abroad and returned to Germany. For the previous year's relegated VfB Leipzig , he ran in the Regionalliga Nordost . After he missed promotion to the second division as second behind Chemnitzer FC , he returned to Sweden again to end his career with the lower-class clubs Höllvikens GIF and BK Näset .
In 2005, Nylén settled in Thailand, where he earned his living as a home and real estate agent.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Nylén, Niclas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Larsson, Niclas (until 1990) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1966 |