Ruben Svensson

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Ruben Svensson (born November 28, 1953 in Karlskoga ) is a Swedish former football player . The defender won the triple national championship, national cup and UEFA cup with IFK Göteborg in 1982 .

Career

Svensson moved with his family to Hagfors in 1969 , where he started playing soccer with the local soccer club. About the IK Viking he came to the BK Derby in 1975 , with which he rose to the Allsvenskan the following year . However , he ended the 1977 season after only three season successes with twelve plus points with the club as bottom of the table. At the side of Anders Wickman , Lars Richt , Ulf Spångberg and Håkan Lundström , he played all 26 games of the season.

Svensson stayed in the top Swedish league, as league rivals IFK Gothenburg signed him. Under coach Hans Karlsson , he was quickly one of the regular players who established the club in the upper third of the table. In the 1979 season , the new coach Sven-Göran Eriksson led the team around Torbjörn Nilsson , Glenn Strömberg , Odd Lindberg and Tommy Holmgren to runner-up behind Halmstads BK , in the national cup it was more successful. With a clear 6-1 win over Åtvidabergs FF , the club won the trophy for the first time in club history.

In the following years IFK Göteborg was also at the top of the league and regularly qualified for the UEFA Cup. In 1982 Svensson was finally involved in the most successful year in the club's history to date. After the team had overwintered in the UEFA Cup 1981/82 , they entered the quarter-finals at the Spanish representative FC Valencia . The club, which got into financial turmoil, was only able to travel to Spain with the support of the supporters, but the team showed an excellent performance there. In addition to Torbjörn Nilsson, Svensson entered the 2-2 away draw on the goalscorer list, which was the cornerstone for promotion to the semi-finals. As a regular player in the defense chain alongside Glenn Hysén , Conny Karlsson and Stig Fredriksson , he was also involved in the successes against 1. FC Kaiserslautern , which led to the final against Hamburger SV . Moved into the final as an outsider, the Swedes defied the North German club with a modern style of play and won the title with wins in both legs. In the national cup, the team defeated Östers IF a short time later and at the end of the season - the former assistant coach Gunder Bengtsson had in the meantime inherited Sven-Göran Eriksson, who had migrated to Portugal - the league leader of the regular season also sat in the championship round of the season 1982 against Hammarby IF by. In the 1983 and 1984 seasons Svensson repeated the championship title with his club, but the success in the European Cup could not be repeated at first. Only in the European Cup of National Champions 1984/85 he reached the quarter-finals with the team, in which they failed at Panathinaikos Athens .

In early 1986 Svensson left after eight seasons IFK Gothenburg and joined local rivals Västra Frölunda IF , who played in the second division. After an injury to Glenn Hysén , however, he returned for the second leg in the semifinals of the European Cup 1985/86 on loan. Against FC Barcelona , the club was close to the final, the two-time goalscorer Torbjörn Nilsson and Tommy Holmgren had led him to a 3-0 home win in the first leg. However, the Catalan club equalized the result in the second leg and prevailed on penalties . Nevertheless, the year was successful for Svensson, with his new club he rose to the Allsvenskan. At the side of Kaj Eskelinen , Mikael Robertsson and Joakim Nåfors , he was one of the regulars who led the club to seventh in the 1987 season and ninth in the table in the following year. He then ended his active career.

In 1995 Svensson returned to the football field for IK Viking , but ended his comeback after three games due to injury. Later he was part of the coaching staff of IFK Gothenburg.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b vf.se: "Hemvändaren Ruben Svensson trivdes: Stolt över att få vara med i dag" (accessed on August 17, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Svensson, Ruben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlskoga , Sweden