Andreas Landgren

Landgren in August 2009

Andreas Landgren ( born March 17, 1989 in Helsingborg) is a Swedish football player. The defender made ​​his debut in 2009 in the Swedish national team. He is since January 2010 Udinese Calcio signed, is in the 2010/11 season on loan but to the Dutch Ehrendivisionär Willem II Tilburg.

Career

Landgren, whose parents Raija Saarinen and Sven -Åke Landgren played himself in Sweden's highest football leagues, began in 1995 with the football games at Helsingborgs IF. He went through the entire youth teams and played also in the Swedish junior national teams, their captain he was.

2006 moved Landgren in the squad men's team of the club. On October 26 of that year he made ​​his debut in Allsvenskan, when he came off the bench in the 4-2 win at Kalmar FF in the final minute for McDonald Mariga. As a result, he was able to establish itself in the squad came as a junior player but infrequently used. During the 2008 season, he established himself in the starting line- so that even Jörgen Lennartsson and Tommy Söderberg, selecting coach of the Swedish U- 21 team, were aware of him and him in August in a 1-1 draw against the Finnish National Selection could debut the junior national team.

In addition, Landgren came to the fore of the national coach Lars Lagerback, who appointed him to the cadre of senior team at a North American tour. On 28 January 2009, he appeared as a substitute on the 75th minute for Alexander Farnerud with the scorers of the only goal in a 1-0 victory over the Mexican national team. In the following season, he came up to the summer break in ten games for use and the end of May appealed Lennartsson and Söderberg him next to his team mate Joel Ekstrand and Pär Hansson into the squad for the U- 21 European Championship finals in the summer in their own country, where he is one of eleven players with national team experience. With the choice he reached the semifinals of the tournament, in which they failed on the English U- 21 team.

Shortly after the end of the tournament signed Landgren one running from January 2010, until 2013 contract with the Italian club Udinese Calcio. On the side of Rasmus Jönsson, Henrik Larsson, Joel Ekstrand and René Makondele he finished the season in Sweden and reached the club to eighth place.