Tom Boast

Tom Boast
Personnel
birthday	January 5, 1949
place of birth	Smedstorp , Tomelilla ,  Sweden
Juniors
Years	station
	Onslunda IF
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1964-1967	Onslunda IF
1968-1972	Tomelilla IF
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1972-1975	Onslunda IF
1976	IFK Trelleborg
1977-1988	Onslunda IF
1979-1981	IFK Kristianstad
1982-1989	Kirsebergs IF
1990-1995	Trelleborgs FF
1996-2001	Halmstads BK
2002-2005	Malmö FF
2006	Viking Stavanger
2007-2011	Trelleborgs FF
1 Only league games are given.

Tom Prahl (born January 5, 1949 in Smedstorp , Tomelilla ) is a Swedish former football coach . After a short playing career in the lower class, he established himself as a coach and won the Swedish championship three times.

Career

Short playing career and start of coaching career

Prahl played as a teenager at Onslunda IF , for whom he made his debut in the first team at the age of 15. In early 1968 he moved to Tomelilla IF in the third division. With the aim of becoming a full-time sports teacher, he applied to the Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan , but narrowly missed the admission criterion. So he went to Cologne to study for three years in Germany. At the age of 23 he returned to Sweden after successfully completing his degree and ended his playing career to take over the coaching position at his hometown club Onslunda IF . He looked after the fifth division until 1975 when he accepted an offer from the third division IFK Trelleborg . After the 1976 season, however, he returned to Onslunda IF and was again responsible for the team of his home club for two seasons.

Before the 1979 season, Prahl again took an offer from the third highest Swedish division. The IFK Kristianstad he led in his first season to the relay victory in Division 3 Sydvästra Götaland . In the subsequent promotion round he remained with the team against Karlskrona AIF , Råå IF and IFK Uddevalla without defeat and thus led them to the second division. In the Swedish lower house he fought with the club against direct relegation, but in the end the club occupied a relegation place due to the poorer goal difference compared to the same point competitor IK Sleipner and rose together with Kalmar AIK and Nyköpings BIS . After the re-promotion was clearly missed as seventh in the table, the coach and club parted ways.

Prahl took over the league rivals Kirsebergs IF from Malmö . After he had missed three points to return to the promotion games in his second year at the club as runner-up behind Lunds BK in 1983 , the club dominated the league two years later with four points ahead of its former coaching station IFK Trelleborg. After a 1-0 first leg success in the away game at Karlstad BK , he lost the second leg with the team with a 1: 2 home defeat and thus missed his second promotion due to the away goals rule . After he had successfully kept the team in the third division through a league reform the following year, he led the team again at the end of the decade in the top tier of their third division season.

Promotion to master coach and three championships

For the 1990 season, Prahl signed a contract with the second division Trelleborgs FF . In his first season still fourth in the table, he finished the spring series of the second division in first place and therefore took part with the team in the Kvalsvenskan of the first division season in 1991 . With just one defeat out of 14 games, the club qualified as runner-up behind Östers IF for the first division season in 1992 . In the Allsvenskan Trelleborgs FF experienced the most successful period in the club's history to date. He led the team around Mats Lilienberg , Leif Engqvist , Jan Möller and Anders Palmér as third in the table in the championship finals, where they barely missed a starting place for the UEFA Cup . While Lilienberg and Henrik Bertilsson von Halmstads BK crowned Allsvenskan top scorer in the following season , the club reached the European Cup in fourth place. He made headlines with the team in the 1994/95 UEFA Cup . After GÍ Gøta had been defeated with two wins in the preliminary round , the team met in the first round on the English representative Blackburn Rovers . In the first leg, Fredrik Sandell scored the golden goal for the 1-0 away win at Ewood Park against the team trained by Kenny Dalglish around players like Graeme Le Saux , Tim Sherwood , Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton . In the second leg, however, the big hour struck for Joachim Karlsson , who twice equalized a leadership of the English club and led the team to the next round thanks to a 2-2 draw against the English champions at the end of the season. Prahl's team was also faced with a sensation against Lazio in the second round, after a 0-0 draw in the first leg, Alen Bokšić only scored the decisive goal in stoppage time of the second leg with his goal to make it 1-0 in the final.

In the league season 1994 , however, Prahl's team did not succeed, they occupied the last non-relegation place at the end of the season as tenth in the table. In the following season, she did not build on the successful years after the rise and ended the season again in tenth place in the table. He then ended his engagement with the club and went to league rivals Halmstads BK , where he inherited Mats Jingblad , who had migrated to IFK Göteborg . After the club had to cope with the departures of the top performers Niclas Alexandersson and Niklas Gudmundsson , Prahl reached seventh place in the table with the team around Torbjörn Arvidsson , Freddie Ljungberg , Peter Vougt and Håkan Svensson .

In his second season at HBK, the 1997 season , Prahl led the club to the third championship title in the club's history. In particular due to the home strength - twelve wins in 13 games at Örjans vall - the team, which was reinforced by Mats Lilienberg and Artim Sakiri , distanced series champions IFK Göteborg by three points and team captain Tommy Andersson won the Von Rosens Cup in his last game for the club reach up. In the following seasons, the team was among the top flight of the league and qualified for the UEFA Cup. In the 2000 season , the club dominated the season opener with six wins in their first seven games and quickly established themselves at the top of the table. After a period of weakness that followed, the team around Stefan Selakovic , Petter Hansson , Håkan Svensson, Mikael Gustavsson , Jeffrey Aubynn and Henrik Bertilsson returned to the top of the table in autumn and were six points ahead of runner-up Helsingborgs IF by the end of the season . The following season ended in a disappointing seventh place, accompanied by failure in the 2001/02 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round against RSC Anderlecht and then a 6-1 away defeat by Sporting Lisbon in the 2001/02 UEFA Cup second round . In the summer, Prahl had already announced his departure at the end of the season to join league rivals Malmö FF .

Prahl replaced Michael Andersson at MFF , who had fallen out with the board despite sporting successes. In his first season with the new club, in which Peter Ijeh was the first non-European top scorer in the Allsvenskan, he qualified for the European Cup as a runner- up behind Djurgårdens IF . If the team also made the top scorer in the following season with Niklas Skoog , it was again not enough to win the title. In the 2004 season , a duel with Prahl's former coaching station Halmstads BK developed for the championship title. The Malmö team around Andreas Yngvesson , Jon Inge Høiland , Afonso Alves , Daniel Majstorović and Louay Chanko finally prevailed with two points and Prahl won the championship title for the third time as coach. In October of that year he extended his contract by one year with the option of one more season.

Unsuccessful in Norway and return to Sweden

After finishing fifth in the 2005 season , Prahl followed an offer from Norway to join Viking Stavanger , where he signed a two-year contract. In the Tippeligaen he was denied success and he played with the team against relegation from the Norwegian elite series. In late summer, the club released him from his contract and replaced him with Tom Nordlie .

After Prahl had been unemployed for six months, he returned to Trelleborgs FF in autumn 2007. He established the relegation candidate in the following years in the back of the Allsvenskan. In March 2010, the club therefore extended its expiring contract prematurely until 2013. In the 2011 season he was in a relegation battle with the team, when they were second to last they missed relegation. Shortly after the end of the season, Prahl ended his involvement with the club and thus his coaching career.

Web links

• Tom Prahl in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ aftonbladet.se: "Framåt marsch för Månadens tränare" (accessed on November 8, 2010)
2. ↑ hbk.se: "HBK i Allsvenskan: 1997" (accessed on November 8, 2010)
3. ↑ hbk.se: "HBK i Allsvenskan: 2000" (accessed on November 8, 2010)
4. ↑ mff.se: "Tom Prahl clear som tränare för Malmö FF" ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 8, 2010) 
5. ↑ mff.se: "Tom Prahl fortsätter som tränare i Malmö FF" ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 8, 2010) 
6. ↑ aftonbladet.se: "Tom Prahl klar för Stavanger" (accessed on November 8, 2010)
7. ↑ expressen.se: "Tom Prahl fick sparken av Viking"  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 8, 2010)  
8. ↑ svt.se: "Tom Prahl klar för TFF" (accessed on November 8, 2010)
9. ↑ trelleborgsallehanda.se: "Tom Prahl blir pensionär i TFF" (accessed on November 8, 2010)
10. ↑ trelleborgsallehanda.se: "Tom Prahl bryter contraktet med TFF" (accessed on November 7, 2011)