Kristoffer Björklund

Kristoffer Björklund ( born April 19, 1978 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish football player. The goalkeeper played his career exclusively in Sweden, where he ran aground a long time in Allsvenskan and Superettan.

Career

Björklund joined at the age of six years, the youth of Hammarby IF, but moved as a 13 -year-old to the city rivals IF Brommapojkarna. When unterklassig gambling club in the junior goalkeeper came to his Erstmannschaftsdebüt 1997 in the next three years irregularly used and moved in 2000 to the second division FC Café Opera on. There he became the first-choice goalkeeper and placed with the team on the side of Daniel Arnefjord, Niklas Sandberg and Kaj Eskelinen in the upper middle of the table.

Before the start of the second division season 2003 Björklund returned to the now ascended to the second division IF Brommapojkarna. Under coach Benny Persson, he was as well as among his successors Anders Grönhagen and Claes Eriksson goalkeeper of the Stockholm club. After the team had established in the mid table area, he led them in the second division season 2003, in which he stood in all 30 games of the season in the starting lineup, together with Olof Guterstam, Thomas Lagerlöf, Joakim Runnemo and Jon Persson for the first rise in the Allsvenskan in the club's history. Again, he was a regular force, but the Premiership season 2007 was disappointing for the team, as the only relegation was confirmed.

Björklund remained top-notch, as he his youth club Hammarby IF joined. There he signed a two -year contract in December 2007. The former Swedish international goalkeeper Rami Shaaban he fought a duel for the starting place between the posts and was able to prevail over long distances. At the end of the 2009 he went down with the club from the Premier League, so his contract was not renewed.

End of March 2010 undertook the second division Assyriska Föreningen to give the hitherto non-contracting Björklund, the newly committed Magnus Bahne competition. Rikard Norling coach sat on the Finnish goalkeeper, so Björklund had no league use by summer. Therefore, in July he left the club and joined the present in the relegation league rivals Väsby United. By the end of the season he was in ten games between the posts, but suffered relegation to the third division with the team as a Table. He then announced to want to leave the club.