Erland Hellström

Erland Folke Henry Hellström ( born December 16, 1980 in Kaiserslautern) is a Swedish football player. The goalkeeper is the son of former Swedish international's Ronnie Hellström.

Career

Youth and breakthrough in men range

Born in the Federal Republic of Germany Hellström moved with his family after the retirement of his father at the 1 FC Kaiserslautern in 1984 to Upplands Väsby. In 1986 he began here at Bollstanäs SK with the football before joining the age of eleven in the youth of Väsby IK. In 1996, he won with the youth team the St. Erikscupen, one of the most important competitions for Swedish youth teams.

1997 Hellström moved on to the squad of the third division football team Väsby IK, but still played in parallel for the junior team in the Juniorallsvenskan. On the final day of the 1997 he came to the club in the 2:3 defeat to Karlstad BK in the Division II Västra Svealand his debut in the men's area. In the following season he was indeed completely in the squad, but could not get hold of the place between the posts because of its susceptibility to injury. Only in the summer of 1999, he established himself as a regular force in the goal of the club and was able to fight with him the championship of Division II Östra Svealand. In the subsequent three relegation matches he guarded the gate in second behind FC Café Opera was an upgrade but missed.

Swedish Champion as a substitute

Hellström left Väsby IK in December 1999 in order to be active from the following season as a replacement of the former international goalkeeper Lars Eriksson at Hammarby IF in the Allsvenskan. It took until the 10th of September 2001 before he first stood in the Swedish Elite Series between the posts. In the 2-2 draw against BK Hacken he replaced the actual number one and thus contributed to the profit of Lennart Johansson - Cup as a Swedish national champion at. After the End of career, Eriksson has been committed with a new goalkeeper Ante Covic. After the Australians could be established between the posts, the club Hellström decided to lend in the 2003.

Key players in the second division and promotion to the Allsvenskan

Therefore Hellström joined Assyriska FF in the Superettan. In the second division, he established himself in the gate and the club signed him permanently after one year. In his second season at the club from Södertälje, he completed all 30 season games over the complete distance and reached the club to third place in the table, which meant qualification to the Relagtionsspielen to Allsvenskan. The team lost the duel against third-bottom of the first division Örgryte IS after a 2-1 home win and a 0-1 away defeat by an own goal in injury time thanks to the away goals rule. However, since the first division side Örebro SK lost their licenses moved Assyriska as the first guest workers' association in Sweden in the first division. For the Erstliganeuling However, the Swedish House of Lords proved to be too strong, the club suffered relegation straight back. Even after the re- descent of the goalkeeper was among the top performers of his club and still denied 18 games before he suffered a torn ACL in the summer of 2006, and the remaining playing time failed.

Return to Hammarby IF and injury woes

After Assyriska had crashed out of the first division coming directly into the third league and his contract with the club, Hellström announced his departure from the club. Covic had left after the 2006 Sweden in the direction of Australia, so that Hammarby IF filed the interest to oblige the former substitute as the new number one. Because of this, however, was injured, Hammarby IF borrowed also Richard Kingson for three months from the time was up Hellström fully rehabilitated bridge. After Kingson had left the club in late June after the end of the loan period, Hellström returned in the 2:4 defeat at Helsingborgs IF back to the football field. However, he was injured again in the next game, so that subsequently developed a goalkeeper crisis at the club and six different goalkeepers were within one and a half years between the posts. After his substitute Benny Lekström, which could displace the meantime convalescent Hellström, just injured, Hellström came back into the goal. However, he was injured again when he at the game against IFK Gothenburg suffered a break in October and thus long-term failed. For the rest of the season both were replaced by junior goalkeeper George Moussan while goalkeeper coach Lars Eriksson sat as a substitute on the bench and, for the 2008 season, the club undertook the replacement of the national Rami Shaaban and Kristoffer Björklund.

Hellström was the role of the substitute man in the sequence. Therefore Hammarby IF gave him in March 2009 until the summer of the second division Väsby United to gather after a long break due to injury of match practice. There he came to two division operations before the summer break. After his return to Hammarby IF to club and players decided to dissolve the contract. As a result, he was without a club.