Peter Lönn

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Peter Lönn (born July 13, 1961 in Norrköping ) is a Swedish former football player . The defensive player played seven caps for the Swedish national team between 1987 and 1989 .

Career

Lönn played in his youth at the suburban club Simonstorps IF , for which he made his debut in the lower-class competition team at the end of the 1970s. In 1980 he moved to IFK Norrköping , where he only made his breakthrough after relegation from Allsvenskan at the end of the 1982 season . After the direct resurgence, he reached the championship finals with the team as fifth in the regular season, after two defeats against IFK Göteborg they had become runner-up. After a season in relegation battle, he established himself in the result in the top tier of the league. He played himself in the notebook of national coach Olle Nordin and made his debut in April 1987 in the 3-1 away win against the Soviet Union in the national jersey, but underwent an own goal .

In 1988 Lönn finally won the national cup with the club alongside Göran Holter , Tor-Arne Fredheim , Sulo Vaattovaara and Mats Almgren . Besides Jan Hellström , Martin Dahlin , Leif Engqvist and Anders Limpar , he was part of the Olympic team coached by Benny Lennartsson in the same year , which at the Summer Games in Seoul failed as group winners before the German Olympic team in the quarter-finals after extra time due to Italy. He played all four games over the entire duration, with the hit to the 2-1 final score over the Federal Republican selection, he was decisive in winning the group. While his club won the club's twelfth championship title in the 1989 season - with his brother Roger Lönn , among others - he had left his home country in the summer and joined the Swiss club Neuchâtel Xamax . He ran two seasons for the club in the Swiss championship before returning to Sweden. At IFK Norrköping he ended his active career in 1992.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fifa.com: "Team Analysis" (accessed on August 14, 2013; PDF; 11.9 MB)

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personal data
SURNAME Lönn, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Norrkoping , Sweden