Karl Svensson
Karl Svensson ( born March 21, 1984 in Jönköping ) is a Swedish football player. The defender, who was in Scotland and France under contract, took part with the Swedish national team at the 2006 World Cup.
Career
Career start in Sweden
Svensson started his footballing career at Egnahems BK. In 2000 he moved to the youth of the perennial first division Jönköping Södra IF. At the Club from Småland the central defender made his debut soon in the men's team, which contested the Division 2 Östra Götaland third-rate. With her he took regularly places in the middle of the league.
Svensson's talent was discovered even higher class. Prior to the Premiership season of 2003, the defender joined the Swedish tradition IFK Gothenburg in Allsvenskan. At first he was only a reserve player and came mainly as a substitute for use as trainer Johansson put mainly on the defensive line to Mikael Antonsson, Dennis Jonsson, Hjálmar Jónsson and Magnus Erling Mark. From his second year at the club he could settle over long distances in the starting lineup of the club. As a result, it took into account Torbjörn Nilsson, the Swedish coach of the U- 21 team in the Junior National Team. Even after Jörgen Lennartsson and Tommy Söderberg took over the team in 2005, he was one of the regularly called, but moved behind his teammate Mattias Gothenburg Bjärsmyr and Oscar Wendt second term.
With the club team Svensson reached in the 2005 the best result of his young career. By now promoted to captain, he led the club with four points behind the Stockholm club Djurgårdens IF to second place in the table. With good performances during the season, he had also played in the notebook of coach Lars Lagerback and came at the beginning of the following year his debut in the National Jersey. In an international match tour in the Arab world, he stood on the 18th of January of the year in the 1-1 draw against Saudi Arabian national goals from Anders Svensson and Mohammed Haidar in the starting lineup. Without having another international match denied he belonged in the summer as a replacement for the established defender Olof Mellberg, Teddy Lucic and Petter Hansson the squad for the World Cup in Germany, came there but not used.
Move abroad
Shortly before the start of the World Cup tournament was the Scottish giants Glasgow Rangers obligation Svensson known. When the new French coach Paul Le Guen undertook supervised team from the Ibrox Stadium, he signed a contract with three years duration. Under the French, he was on the side of Julien Rodriguez initially to the permanent employees in the defensive line. Even after Le Guen was replaced by Walter Smith in early January, he kept until the end of the month his place. However, at the end of the Wntertransferperiode the club undertook with Ugo Ehiogu and David Weir two defensive player who displaced the Swedes out of the team in the series.
At the beginning of the Allsvenskan season 2007 in April of this year, IFK Göteborg has sought to return Svensson. However, this declined to a lending transaction with the Swedish club because he wanted to catch on with the Rangers. By the end of the season, however, he could not help against the competition in the defensive line and came after his last game on 18 February in a 2-1 victory over FC Falkirk, in which he was allowed to run up a half- time at no further use for the Club.
In the summer of Svensson left after 21 games in the Scottish Premier League Rangers towards Ligue 1 In French Erstligaaufsteiger SM Caen, who paid € 1 million transfer fee, he signed the end of July a three-year contract. At the start of the Ligue 1 season 2007/ 08 he was one of the regulars before he injured his third round in August at the knee. Then he fell a long time by a back injury and reached for his recovery no longer correct Occurs when the northern French club because he could not displace the set defender Nicolas Seube, Jérémy Sorbon and Cédric Hengbart.
Return to Sweden
In February 2009, Svensson left the French club with which he had come in the first half of the 2008 /09 to a stake, in the direction of Sweden. At his old club IFK Göteborg, he signed a four-year contract. In preparation, however, the defender slowed down a fever. Then he fell to injury from until the summer. His first competitive match for the Gothenburg club he played on July 26th of that year, when he came off the bench in the 1-2 defeat against Trelleborg FF in the 82nd minute for Mikael Dyrestam. Due to its Veretzungsanfälligkeit he came but only irregularly employed. After a good preparation for the 2010 season beginning of the season in the starting lineup, he lost to poor performance his place, so he had to take place in the Allsvenskan bench on the one hand and on the other hand took for the second representation of the club. While he was thus brought into connection with other clubs, he intensified his training at the club because he felt comfortable despite the circumstances at the club and to offer to the coaching duo Stefan Rehn and Jonas Olsson. In the following season he made then temporarily return to the team, with his 18 league stakes he stood in 15 games in the starting lineup. Nevertheless, he wanted to change the club a year before his contract expires.
Shortly before Christmas 2011 Svensson gave his move back to his first station in adult football known in Jönköping Södra IF he signed a contract with three years duration.