Sven Dahlkvist

Sven Anders Peter Dahlkvist (born May 30, 1955 in Mockfjärd ) is a former Swedish football player and coach . In 1984 the player, who made his debut in the Swedish national team in 1979 , was named Sweden's Footballer of the Year .

Career

Dahlkvist grew up in Gagnef , central Sweden , where he was active in various sports such as tennis , table tennis , skiing and ice hockey for the local sports club Gagnefs IF . From 1963 he ran in the youth team of the football department and made his debut at the age of 14 in the club's first team, which at the time competed in the sixth highest division. He quickly established himself as a regular player and made a name for himself as a regular goalscorer. Several higher-class clubs then reported interest in a commitment, he decided in autumn 1974 to change to AIK .

On April 20, 1975 Dahlkvist made his debut in the 3-0 win over GIF Sundsvall as a substitute for his new club in the Allsvenskan . Neither coach Keith Spurgeon nor his successor Kurt Liander relied on the young player, so this was his only stake in the first season in the top division. Before the start of the 1976 season , Lars-Oscar Nilsson , the former junior coach of Svenska Fotbollförbundet , took over the training of the Swedish first division team. Here, too, he was preparing for the second leg, but impressed in a cup game against local rivals Djurgårdens IF in March of that year , when he came on as a substitute in the second half to equalize a 2-0 deficit. In the following season he was a regular player and scored eight goals in 21 games this season. In May of that year he was crowned cup winner: In the 3-0 win over Landskrona BoIS in the final, he prepared the 1-0 lead by Rolf Zetterlund and scored the second goal himself.

In the 1976/77 European Cup Winners' Cup , the team around Yngve Leback , Jan-Olof Wallgren , Göran Göransson and Claes Marklund beat Turkish representatives Galatasaray Istanbul after a 2-1 home defeat with a 1-1 draw in front of around 45,000 spectators in Istanbul a respectable success. However, this could not be converted to the league, where the club only occupied places in the middle of the table. Nevertheless, Dahlkvist, who had meanwhile been retrained as a central defender, had won over those responsible for the Swedish national selection with good performances, in April 1979 he made his debut under selection coach Georg Ericson in the 2-0 defeat against the USSR in Tbilisi at the side of Jan Möller , Ingemar Erlandsson , Anders Grönhagen and Olle Nordin in the senior national team.

With a major investment before the 1979 season, the club wanted to return to the circle of the top Swedish teams: On the one hand, the club signed established football players from Finland and Sweden with the trio Jyrki Nieminen , Ola Rydstrand and Staffan Isaksson , and on the other hand, the club became successful at the beginning of the decade Coach Jens Lindblom brought back. After a failed start to the season and a lot of bad luck with injuries, the team was in danger of relegation throughout the season, despite playing time in all 26 games of the season for Dahlkvist, the club fell to a relegation zone on the last day of the game. In the second division he stayed loyal to the club and rose straight away. In the 1981 season he placed with the club in the middle of the table, in the fall he also returned to the national team under Ericson's successor Lars Arnesson . In the following year in the relegation battle, in which the relegation was achieved only in the relegation and promotion round against Djurgårdens IF, Dahlkvist led the club in the following seasons in the top group of Allsvenskan. The 1983 season ended the team around Thomas Johansson , Göran Göransson, Ove Rübsamen and Bernt Ljung as first in the table, but failed in the semi-finals of the championship finals at the later title holder IFK Göteborg . Between August 1, 1983 and August 12, 1984, unbeaten, the team finished second in the table at the end of the regular season in the following season. This time, however, was already in the quarter-finals due to the away goals rule after a 0-1 away defeat despite a 2-1 home win against IFK Norrköping . However, his good performance was honored and he was named Player of the Year at the end of the year.

In the summer of 1985 Dahlkvist won his second title with AIK, goalkeeper Ljung became a hero in the cup final against Östers IF . After the former Germany professional Thomas Andersson, substituted for Roger Sundin, equalized Teitur Þórðarson's lead with his goal to equalize 1-1 in the final minute and thus saved the team in extra time, the penalty shoot-out ultimately decided to win the title. Andersson missed his penalty there, but Ljung was not overcome by Peter Truedsson , Erkka Petäjä and Ronnie Persson . So Dahlkvist triumphed again and led the club to the fourth cup victory in the club's history. The autumn was less successful: On the one hand, he and the club missed the championship finals, which had been reduced to four teams, in fifth place due to the worse goal difference , on the other hand, the national team failed to participate in a tournament again since the 1978 World Cup finals by failing to qualify for the 1986 World Cup . At the same time, his national team career came to an end after 39 internationals and four goals. But the following year was more successful, as third in the regular season, the team reached the final against Malmö FF after a 0-0 home draw thanks to a goal by Björn Kindlund in the 1-1 draw at IFK Göteborg due to the away goal rule . Although victorious AIK in the first leg by a penalty goal by Mats Olausson with 1: 0, in the second leg, the Malmö team to took Jonas Thern , Leif Engqvist , Magnus Andersson and Hans Borg by a 5 to 2 victory Von Rosen's Cup for the Championship title.

After a ninth place in the table in the 1987 season , Dahlkvist left AIK, for whom he had scored 38 goals in 256 first division games. After his third league game on May 9, 1976 until his last appearance on October 4, 1987, he had only missed two competitive games due to injury. He switched to Örebro SK , who was trained by his former teammate Rolf Zetterlund. With the club, he rose to the Allsvenskan at the end of the second division season in 1988. By 1992 he had added 79 other top division games to his career statistics, including eight scorers. In 1990 he was in the semi-finals of the championship finals with the club and was named Player of the Year by the Elitdomareklubben i fotboll . After the introduction of a championship series in league form in the following year, he moved into the European Cup as third in the table with the team around Christer Fursth , Magnus Sköldmark , Hans Holmqvist and Peter Nilsson .

Coaching career

After finishing his active career at Örebro SK he took over the coaching job of his predecessor Kent Karlsson at the club in 1993 and led him to relegation. In the 1994 season he played with the team around Lars Zetterlund , Mirosław Kubisztal and Mattias Jonsson for the championship title, ultimately missing two points on the series champion IFK Göteborg trained by Roger Gustafsson . In the following years, the club played in the top third of the table, but again missed such a good placement. In the 1999 season , the club slipped into the relegation battle and had to compete in the relegation against the second division team Assyriska Föreningen , supervised by the German Peter Antoine . In the extension of the second leg, striker Johan Wallinder scored in the 108th minute of the game to win the 2-1 win, which meant relegation after the 1-1 draw in the first leg. After the end of the season he handed over the coaching position to Mats Jingblad , who had previously worked unsuccessfully in Greece.

2001 to 2002 Dahlkvist sat in the third division Eskilstuna City in the coaching bench. He then went to Hidingsta IK , a smaller club from Örebro, as chairman .

Private

His daughter Lisa made her debut for the Swedish national soccer team in 2008 and took part in the soccer world championships 2011 in Germany and 2015 in Canada as well as the Olympic Games in London in 2012 and the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 .

Web links

• Sven Dahlkvist at aik.se