Niclas Nyhlén

Niclas Nylén until 1990 Niclas Larsson, ( born March 21, 1966 in Malmö, Sweden ) is a former Swedish football player. The defensive player who played in Sweden, Yugoslavia, Germany, Scotland, China and Italy, participated with the Swedish national team at the 1990 World Cup.

Career

Career Start

Nylén began playing football at the club Malmö BK Olimpic, where he ran aground on the side of too later Allsvenskanspielers Peter Hillgren. When a youth tournament, he fell to the charge of FK Vojvodina Novi Sad, who committed him in the summer of 1984. There was a brief interlude in Yugoslavia, so he returned to his hometown club soon. In the following two years he ran on for third division in the relay Skåne and took him places in mid-table.

Success with Malmö FF and national appeal

The young players had higher class attracts attention and joined before the Premiership season 1987 Malmö FF. With the trained by Roy Hodgson last year's champion, he served as a reserve player who came to five league operations, after the regular season with five points ahead of IFK Norrkoping the table confidently and reached after two wins against Östers IF in the championship finals, the final against IFK Gothenburg. The supervised by Gunder Bengtsson team became third in the table in the regular season, sat down, however, after a 1-0 home win and a 1:2 away defeat on the away goals rule by and won the championship. In its second year, the defensive player established himself as a regular force. Again he reached with the club as the leader of the final of the championship final. In the clash with the Stockholm club Djurgårdens IF Malmö club won the second leg after a goalless draw in the first leg with a 7-3 success, so Nylén won the first title of his career.

In the season 1989 succeeded the third time in a row, the entry into the Cup final, this time Nylén had to admit defeat with the team IFK Norrköping. However, during the year achieved a title since he won the cup final with his team. Through his good performances during the season, he had played in the notebook of the Swedish national team coach Olle Nordin. As part of the qualification for the World Cup finals in Italy, he made his debut on 7 May 1989 in a 2-1 victory over Poland in the blue and gold jersey and scored in stoppage -time winner, the gateway to the first finals appearance for Sweden since the World Cup tournament 1978 pushed far. As a result, he stayed in the squad of the national selection, but was mainly used as a substitute for use.

After Nylén had changed at the beginning of 1990, its name, considered him Nordin in the summer of the year in the squad for the World Cup finals, with the three 1:2 defeats in the group stage against Costa Rica, Brazil and Scotland he pursued from the bench. Following the tournament, he remained true to his club, even if under Hodgson's successors Bob Houghton and Viggo Jensen failed to successes. Although he moved with the team for the seasons 1991 and 1992, again in the meanwhile in the League mode discharged championship final one, the club finished there, however, places the rear. Following the 1994 season he left the club on loan abroad and played during the winter break for the Scottish side Ayr United. After his return to Sweden in the beginning of the following year he was again under coach Rolf Zetterlund to the regular forces and helped the club in the season 1996 runner-up behind IFK Gothenburg.

Years abroad and return to Sweden

In September 1996 Nylén left his homeland again. He signed a contract with the German club Stuttgart Kickers, who had risen in the summer in the 2nd Bundesliga. Until the winter break, he played on the side of Markus Sailer, Ralf Strogies, Adnan Kevrić and Markus extinguishing twelve games in which he scored a goal is scored during the game against the SC Fortuna Köln. In the winter, he moved again to the club and Cosenza Calcio 1914 joined in the Italian Serie B. Here he remained only briefly, to seek his fortune at the Chinese club Dalian Shide. The end of 1997, he returned as a master of Chinese Super League to Sweden.

In the first half of 1998 Nylén ran on in the Allsvenskan for Halmstad BK. In the summer he again followed an offer from abroad and returned to Germany. For the last year relegated VfB Leipzig he ran on in the Regionalliga Nord. After missing out on a table second behind Chemnitz FC promotion back to the second division he again returned to Sweden to end his career at the unterklassigen clubs Höllvikens GIF and BK Näset.

2005 could be Nylén in Thailand, where he earned as a home and real estate agent his money.