Göran Marklund

Göran Mattias Marklund ( born October 2, 1975 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish football player. The striker played his career in Sweden and Scotland.

Career

Marklund comes from the youth of the Spånga IS, where his father, the former first division Claes Marklund, early 1980s, was active. Before the start of the 1996 he joined the his early second division Vasalunds IF on before he in the summer of 1997 the club towards Scotland verließ.Unter coach Tommy McLean was Dundee United have been successful with the Scandinavian players Lars Zetterlund, Kjell Olofsson and Erik Pedersen, as that the club Marklund, Magnus Sköldmark and Sigurdur Jónsson took them under contract. After the impersonated for £ 100,000 striker had been delayed encountered due to the military service to the team and used in some reserve team games, he stood at the end of September duel with Celtic for the first time in the squad. The stay abroad, however, was not accompanied by success, because he could not prevail in the Scottish Premier League. Therefore, he returned to the now third-rate antretenden Vasalunds IF.

In early 2000, Marklund for FC Café Opera in the Superettan. As a regular scorer, he led the team to Niklas Sandberg, Mattias Moström and Daniel Arnefjord in the upper half of the table. In the 2003 he crowned himself with 23 goals this season for the top scorer of the second highest Swedish league, and raised so that higher class desires. Finally, he signed in November of the year a two-year contract with the local rivals AIK. Due to injury, he came in his first season only to seven inserts season, in which he remained without a goal. After descending from the Allsvenskan, he contributed two goals this season in 14 games for direct re-emergence of the team led by Daniel Tjernström, Daniel Örlund, Mats Rubarth and Derek Boateng in the first division at.

After the expiration of his contract left Marklund AIK and joined the second division Assyriska Föreningen to. With his new club, he got down to the third tier, but managed with the team direct resurgence. Although repeatedly slowed by injuries, he was regularly among the top scorers of the club. After the end of the second division season 2009, in which the team had missed only in the relegation matches against Djurgårdens IF after extra promotion to the Allsvenskan, he moved on to playing assistant coach Rikard Norling of. After his departure to Malmö FF he took over in early summer 2011 on an interim basis the team in early August, the club undertook the Irishman Patrick Walker as new head coach.