Nicklas Carlsson

Lars Nicklas Carlsson ( born November 13, 1979 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish football player. The central defender played his career in Sweden and Denmark. His father Lars Carlsson also played in the Allsvenskan.

Career

Carlsson began playing football in 1985 with the well-known for its youth Stockholm club IF Brommapojkarna, but he had to leave later after moving to Delsbo short time. After he had continued at the local Delsbo IF with the games, he later returned to the youth program of IF Brommapojkarna. Here he went through the other youth teams and moved in 1998 to the first-team squad. With the team, he missed 1999 due to the introduction of the single-track Superettan relegation to the second highest level of play. Had he missed with the team the following year only in the promotion round against Gefle IF 's re-emergence, he returned in 2001 with her ​​back to the second division. As a regular player he was in 29 games in the second division season 2002 in the relegation of the club. After another half- series in Sweden, he had attracted the attention of the Danish club Aarhus GF.

In the summer of 2003 Carlsson left his homeland and signed up in the Danish Superliga on. On the side of Peter Gray Lund, Morten Petersen, Jeffrey Aubynn and Søren Pedersen he was long stretches of game time team regular and helped the fallen into the relegation battle club - in the course of the season thus replaced Carlsson compatriot Sören Åkeby the Dane Poul Hansen as coach - for relegation. Under Åkeby, who had strengthened the team with the Swedes Martin Ulander and Tobias Grahn, he was largely a regular player in the first half of the season 2004 /05.

Nevertheless, Carlsson half a year before the expiry of his contract, decided to return to Sweden and joined the first division relegated AIK. On the side of Captain Daniel Tjernström, Mats Rubarth, Kristian Haynes and Daniel Örlund he rose with the trained by Rikard Norling team right back on, with seven goals this season, he was instrumental in the success. Also in the premier league he was a regular over long distances and helped the climber in the top-flight season 2006 runners- behind IF Elfsborg. After he was part of the root formation at the start of the following season, the club still at the end of his contract expiring in the summer decided not to renew and sat on Nils- Eric Johansson and Daniel Arnefjord as a central defender duo. By the end of the season he was therefore only sporadically used.

Had been long speculated about his new club, Carlsson signed after the season end of October a three-year contract with the reigning champions IFK Göteborg. In April 2008, he was injured shortly after the season starts at the shoulder and fell out long. After his return, he was a reserve player in the 2009 season and came to six stakes as a substitute. In July, he was injured again. After a torn ACL he fell again in the longer term. It was only in his third year he could permanently train with the team and established itself in the second half of the 2010 season as a regular player next to Adam Johansson, Stefan Selakovic and Tobias Hysén.