Joachim Lantz
Joachim Lantz in August 2012
Joachim Gustav Henric Lantz ( born May 10, 1977 in Kalmar) is a Swedish football player.
Career
Lantz joined at the age of six years, Kalmar FF, where he then went through the various youth teams. In 1996 he enlisted as a junior player in the squad to the first team. As a complement player, he came to a few missions, at the end of the season the club got off from the second division. In 1997 he moved due to his studies and joined the club IFK Vasteras. With the third division he played in the following years against relegation, which was done only in the relegation in 1998.
In early 2000 Lantz returned back to Kalmar FF, who had returned in the second-class Superettan. With a goal in the match against IF Sylvia at the end of the 2000 season, he saved the club before re relegation to the third tier. Then the trailer missed him the nickname "Jesus". At the end of the following season the defender was able to celebrate with the club promotion to the Allsvenskan. In his first Erstligaspielzeit he came in 19 games for use, but could not prevent the direct relegated again. With him as a regular player - he missed only one game in the Superettan - KFF succeeded as second division champions the immediate resurgence. In the first two seasons in the Swedish House of Lords, he missed no game and helped to establish the club in the front table space. Towards the end of the 2006 season he lost his place and in the 2007 he watched the action on the court usually only on the bench. In the fall, however, he was able to hurt thanks to a series with Tobias Carlsson, Mikael Eklund and Stefan Larsson, playing his rival for a place in central defense, back in the starting lineup. On 2 September 2007, he also 3-0 win over Halmstad BK succeeded in the domestic Fredriksskans the deficit to 2-0 The score his first Erstligator.
In November 2007, with Kalmar FF Lantz celebrated his first title win. In the final of the National Cup he struck with the team with goals from Patrik Ingelsten and the two -goal César Santin reigning champions IFK Göteborg 3-0. After he had dominated in 20 regular season games with the team on the side of David, Rasmus and Viktor Elm the 2008 season over long distances, it secured for the first time in club history the Swedish Championship. Even when winning the Supercupen beginning of the following year against Cup winners IFK Göteborg, he worked with over the complete playing time, as Daniel Mendes marked the decisive goal just before the end. After ten years for Kalmar FF in which he ran aground in 229 league games and six times came to scoring, he was at the turn of 2010/11 without a club since his contract was not renewed. After a short time without a club membership is Lantz closed in March 2011 to the league rivals Mjallby AIF and remained there until the end of the season, where he could look back on a record of twelve league operations. His one-year contract, the experienced defense Recke Even with Mjallby was not renewed and again without a club. Again in March, he found the unterklassig gambling IFK Berga, also from his hometown Kalmar, a new club. For this he was employed in the fifth- highest division of the country and awarded at the end of August 2012 at the then second division Östers IF. For this, he completed a total of nine championship games and was also the rise of the team in the top division of the country involved. In February, he returned to his hometown club back, too, with the fifth-tier he made in the game 2013 promotion to the next higher division, the Division 2, while the runner-up of Division 3
In addition to his career as a football player Lantz works as a business consultant.