Magnus Sköldmark

Magnus " Skölda " Sköldmark ( born September 22, 1968 in Långsele ) is a Swedish former football player. The defensive player who played in Sweden, China and Scotland, worked following his active career as a football official.

Career

Sköldmark began playing football at Ransta IK. In early 1989 he moved to Örebro SK in the Allsvenskan, where he moved with the trained by Rolf Zetterlund climber on the side of Magnus Erling Mark, Pär Millqvist, Sven and Christer Dahlkvist Fursth as table fourth in the championship finals. There, the team failed in the semifinals at the eventual champions IFK Norrköping. This Sköldmark had heard at first to the key players on the defensive and was also in the following years team regular. In the subsequent two seasons ÖSK was among the front -placed teams in the final standings, before the club in the season 1992 only in the relegation round brought about the league.

Two years later belonged Sköldmark with the Örebro SK, who had meanwhile strengthened with service providers such as the attackers Mattias Jonson and Mirosław Kubisztal and the young players Magnus Powell and Mattias Jonson, back to the top teams and was awarded two points behind series champion IFK Gothenburg Swedish runner. In subsequent seasons, the club reüssierte still in the front third league, but moved Sköldmark increasingly into second place.

In early 1997, left Sköldmark Sweden and joined the Chinese club Dalian Wanda. In the summer he returned to Europe, as it took the Scottish club Dundee United. There the trainer Tommy McLean made ​​with him and the Sweden Mikael Andersson, Göran Marklund, Kjell Olofsson, the Dane Thomas Tengstedt, the Norwegian Erik Pedersen and the Icelanders Sigurdur Jónsson at third-placed last year a kind of Scandinavian block. The season went well for the club, however, less successful than the previous season, as opposed to a part of its northern European colleagues Sköldmark but was able to establish in the defense as a regular player and finished with the team to seventh place in the table. The following year, he ran for the club in the English style introduced in the summer of 1998 Scottish Premier League on. There he played in the first year against relegation, while the team reached the end against Celtic Glasgow lost Cup semi-final.

In the summer of 2000 Sköldmark returned to Sweden, where he found shelter in the first division club GAIS Gothenburg. Despite a goal in 13 games this season he dismounted from the Allsvenskan end of the season. The losers, however, came in the second-rate Superettan not cope and was passed in the third division. Sköldmark remained the club still loyal, but ended during the 2003 his active career.

Sköldmark moved into management of GAIS, who ascended the end of 2003 again in the second division. Under coach Roland Nilsson, the team reached the second division season 2005 the relegation place to Allsvenskan and returned after a 2-1 home win and a 0-0 draw in the return leg against Landskrona BoIS back to the Allsvenskan. In the following years, kept the club in the top division, but Sköldmark while the 2008 was replaced by Sebastian Arby in September.

In April 2010, undertook Sköldmarks first professional Station Örebro SK the former players for a lasting until the end of July of the year project to build a network and the new system for the player buying and selling. In September he returned to the management of the club.