Kalle Björklund

Karl- Gunnar Björklund ( born December 2, 1953 in Växjö ) is a Swedish former football player who now works as a coach. The midfielder won the Swedish championship title with Östers IF. For the Swedish national team 's father Joachim Björklund 1981 and 1982 years played a total of 14 matches.

Career

Björklund began his career at Östers IF. As a young player he made his debut in the 1973 season for the club in Allsvenskan. On the side of Göran Hagberg, Anders Linderoth, Inge Ejderstedt and Jan Mattsson, he was also in the following years, a reserve player, first in the season 1976 he celebrated his breakthrough with five goals this season in 25 games he contributed to the achievement of the third table space with. In the subsequent season, he had eight goals this season - so he finished in tenth place in the scorer in the league - within the association best shot before Tommy Evesson and Mats Nordgren, yet it was only enough for ninth place in the table.

Under coach Lars Arnesson began after Björk Lund's most successful period. The team led by Peter Nilsson, Teitur Þórðarson, Björn Andersson and Per- Olof image he dominated in the season 1978, the championship and won by six points at Malmö FF for the first time the championship. The following year, Bo Johansson took over as coach, and under whose direction he remained master power on offense. In the season 1980, the club won the league title again, as in the following season. With good performances he had in the meantime played in the country's selection, which was coached by Arnesson since 1980. In May 1981, he ran in the 1-2 defeat against Denmark for the first time in the national jersey on, especially in the subsequent games to qualify for the World Cup finals 1982, he ran on a regular basis. Although missed the national team behind Scotland and Northern Ireland to qualify, but he was constantly in the following year in the squad.

In the season 1983 Björklund stood with Östers IF shortly before regained the championship title. However, trained by Leif Widén team failed in the championship final on IFK Gothenburg. At the end of the season to Björklund time being adopted by the major league football and joined the third division side IFK Värnamo to with which he descended a year later in the Viertklassigkeit. In late 1987 he returned to Östers IF in the Allsvenskan back to compete with the club in the championship finals - but after two defeats against Malmö FF, he failed directly in the semifinals.

After the end of his active career Björklund joined as assistant to Hans Backe to the dugout when Östers IF, where he piloted his son Joachim in the first team. In 1991 he went as a successor as head coach Teitur Þórðarson to Norway to Brann Bergen, thereby joining his son with him. 1993 parted ways, as the father to the Swedish second division side Kalmar FF took over. The following year he qualified with the team as runners- Südstaffel for the play-offs for the Allsvenskan, the rise in the Elite series was missed after a 1:4 defeat and a 2-2 draw against Hammarby IF. Nevertheless, he returned to the first division, as the record holder Örgryte IS engaged him as the new head coach. The first two years were marked by defensive football with the relegation was accomplished. With the team to Marcus Allbäck he finally surprised in the season in 1997 with attacking football which led the club to fifth place in the table. Nevertheless, he moved to end of the season the club and joined IF Elfsborg on, in which he succeeded his former teammates migrated to Norway Anders Linderoth. In the first year he finished the season as the Tenth table before the relegation places. After the team again put in the following year in the relegation battle, the club released him after a 1:5 defeat against Örgryte IS in July 1999 and replaced him with his former assistant Bengt -Arne Strömberg.

Then Björklund worked in Norway for Molde FK Larvik Fotball and. After a stint as an assistant coach by Mats Jingblad in Landskrona BoIS he returned as head of sport for IFK Värnamo. Later, he worked full time as a physical education teacher. In the spring of 2008 he took over as coach at third division Östersund FK. After a series of defeats at the start of the third division season 2009 he resigned from his post. For the 2010 season, he was obliged by local rivals IFK Östersund. In December 2010, he returned as an assistant coach Roar Hansen for Östers IF. This he followed in early 2013 to Helsingborgs IF.