Robert Prytz
| Robert Prytz | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Robert Klas-Göran Prytz | |
| birthday | January 12, 1960 | |
| place of birth | Malmo , Sweden | |
| size | 170 cm | |
| position | Central midfield | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1977-1982 | Malmö FF | 80 (27) |
| 1982-1985 | Glasgow Rangers | 77 (12) |
| 1985 | IFK Gothenburg | 11 (2) |
| 1985-1987 | BSC Young Boys | 40 (15) |
| 1987-1988 | Bayer 05 Uerdingen | 32 (9) |
| 1988-1989 | Atalanta Bergamo | 30 (2) |
| 1989-1993 | Hellas Verona | 122 (20) |
| 1993-1995 | Malmö FF | 52 (9) |
| 1995-1996 | BSC Young Boys | 38 (3) |
| 1996-1997 | FC Kilmarnock | 3 (0) |
| 1997-1998 | Dumbarton FC | 3 (0) |
| 1998 | Cowdenbeath FC | 1 (0) |
| 1998-2000 | East Fife FC | 38 (3) |
| 2000-2001 | Hamilton Academical | 9 (2) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1980-1989 | Sweden | 56 (13) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Robert Klas-Göran Prytz (born January 12, 1960 in Malmö , Sweden ) is a former Swedish football player . In 1986 he was named Sweden's Footballer of the Year and the following year he was named Foreign Player of the Year in Switzerland .
Athletic career
Club career
Prytz grew up in the Malmö district of Kirseberg and began playing club football at the local club Kirsebergs IF . At the age of 17 he was about to move to Stockholm club Djurgårdens IF before he decided to move to his father's favorite club Malmö FF after his father's death from cancer . There he established the technician in the course of the 1979 season as a regular player in the Fotbollsallsvenskan . Under coach Bob Houghton , he and the team reached the final of the 1978/79 European Cup in the Munich Olympic Stadium . With the experience of 14 top division games, the 19-year-old was in the starting line-up in the final against Nottingham Forest . With a goal from Trevor Francis , who played his first European Cup match in the final after a long wait for his license , the English opponent won the title after a 1-0 victory.
In the following years Prytz placed himself with the club regularly in the top group of the championship, but the win of the championship title was not granted to him. In the Swedish National Cup he reached the 1980 final against IK Brage with Malmö FF . After teammate Thomas Sjöberg had forced extra time with the goal to make it 2-2 in stoppage time, Göran Arnberg put the final opponent in the lead again. Ingemar Erlandsson saved the club with the goal to make it 3: 3 on penalties , in which Prytz was the first shooter. After three IK Brage players missed or failed at Malmö goalkeeper Jan Möller , Prytz had won his first title. In the same year he made his debut for the Swedish national team .
In the summer of 1982 Prytz moved to the Glasgow Rangers , where he scored 12 goals in 77 games. The club had lost its connection in the Scottish championship at the time and regularly placed fourth in the table behind local rivals Celtic Glasgow , FC Aberdeen and Dundee United , only with success in the Scottish League Cup was the club able to expand its trophy collection. In the 3-2 success in the 1983/84 edition after extra time in the final against Celtic, he was denied participation in the final, in the successful title defense in the final of the League Cup 1984/85 against Dundee United with a goal by Iain Ferguson , he came as a substitute for Bobby Russell to the train in the final quarter of an hour.
In 1985 Prytz returned to Sweden and joined the reigning champions IFK Göteborg . In the 1985 season he reached the championship finals as fourth in the table due to the better goal difference compared to the same point Stockholm club AIK , while he had scored two goals in seven league games. After successes against his ex-club Malmö FF in the semifinals, in which Stefan Pettersson made a decisive contribution to the 2-0 and 2-1 victories as a three-time goal scorer, he reached the finals. In the local derby against Gothenburg rival Örgryte IS , he was in the starting line-up under coach Gunder Bengtsson , after a 2-4 defeat in the first leg a 3-2 second leg success was too little and again he missed winning the championship in his home country.
After the end of the season, Prytz moved to Switzerland for BSC Young Boys at the turn of the year . Here he was one of the main pillars of the team in the 1985/86 Swiss football championship, which became Swiss football champions again 26 years after the last title win. In 1987 (the year the cup was won), he narrowly prevailed over Uli Stielike in the election for the best foreigner in the Swiss .
In 1987 Prytz for almost 1.9 million German marks to Bayer 05 Uerdingen in the Bundesliga , he quickly became in the German top flight to a service provider. While the 1987/88 season was rather disappointing for the club and the new coach Horst Köppel , who was newly signed at the beginning of the season, was replaced by Rolf Schafstall during the season, he was the club's second best goalscorer behind Stefan Kuntz with nine goals this season . After only one season of club therefore sold it for nearly 2.9 million marks to Italy where more initially for Atalanta in the Serie A played. In 1989 he moved on to Hellas Verona within the Italian championship .
In 1993 Prytz returned to Sweden, where he played for his old club Malmö FF. In 1995 the BSC Young Boys brought him back to Switzerland again, the engagement was unsuccessful both personally and for the club, at the end of the Swiss football championship in 1995/96 he went to the National League B. Then he went back to Scotland after a one-year engagement with FC Kilmarnock he ran for several lower-class clubs, some of which he also worked as a player-coach. After completing his career at the age of 42, he looked after various lower-class clubs in Scotland.
National team
Prytz made his debut in the Swedish national team in 1980. There he established himself in the mid-1980s as a regular player, with Glenn Strömberg he formed the central midfield of the team under coach Lars Arnesson and his successor Olle Nordin . At this time, the national team regularly missed participation in World Cup and European Championship finals . When four-nation tournament in 1988 , an invitational tournament of the DFB in advance of the 1988 European Championship , he won with the national team after wins over Germany in the semifinals on penalties and the Soviet Union , in the final at the Berlin Olympic Stadium after goals from Hans Eskilsson and Hans Holmqvist with 2-0 was defeated for the title. After a 6-0 defeat by Denmark in autumn 1989, he was sorted out by Nordin - shortly after successfully qualifying for the 1990 World Cup finals - after 56 international matches in which he had scored 13 goals. So he missed the tournament in Italy, where he was playing at the time.
Others
During his engagement with the Glasgow Rangers, Prytz met his Scottish wife, with whom he has two children. The couple separated in the early 2000s. Long resident in Scotland, he returned to Sweden in 2008 when his mother fell ill. He was then temporarily involved in youth work at Malmö FF and occasionally looked after low-class clubs in Sweden. His main job is now as a furniture packer.
Web links
- Article about his award as Sweden's Footballer of the Year 1986 (Swedish)
- Page with statistics and photo from his time at Rangers (English)
- Robert Prytz in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ sydsvenskan.se: "Han har tunnlat Maradona" (accessed April 12, 2019)
- ↑ skanesport.se: "Robert Prytz i Hall of Fame" (accessed April 12, 2019)
- ↑ a b c d expressen.se: "Robert Prytz:" Nu har jag blivit flyttgubbe "" (accessed on April 12, 2019)
- ↑ sportbibeln.se: "Svenske landslagsikonen har lämnat fotbollen helt - här hans nya oväntade liv" (accessed on April 12, 2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prytz, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Prytz, Robert Klas-Göran |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malmo , Sweden |