Magnus Haglund
Magnus Haglund (born 15 April 1973 in Halmstad ) is a former Swedish football player who now works as a coach. With IF Elfsborg he took a the Lennart Johansson - Cup for the Swedish national champion.
Career
Haglund began as a seven -year-old playing soccer in Halmstad BK. There he went through the youth teams, before he was promoted as the third goalkeeper in the early 1990s in the cadre of men's team. In 1992 he moved to third division Karlslunds IF, before he due to his training as a physical education teacher in Örebro is located there the amateur club IK Sturehov joined after one season at the gym -och Idrottshögskolan. In 1994 he moved to study at the Tri - State University in the United States. When college football team, he was elected in 1995 as a Scholar - Athlete in the Second Team All-American of the NAIA.
Haglund 1998 took his first coaching job, as he looked after the women's team of Stafsinge IF. After two seasons, he returned briefly to Halmstad BK, where he was responsible for handling the players training. In 2000 he accepted an offer of the fourth division Laholms FK. With the club he won against IFK Värnamo the Season Sydvästra Götaland and led the club with it in the third division. With the climber he succeeded behind Ängelholms FF, Ystad and Helsingborg IF Södra the fourth rank. After the repetition of the result in the 2003 he had made higher class attention.
After the departure of Anders Grönhagen the first division side IF Elfsborg Haglund committed before the Allsvenskan season 2004 as the successor. In the Allsvenskan, he finished in the first two years of courses in mid-table. In the season of 2006, he led the team to team captain Anders Svensson, Stefan Ishizaki, Daniel Alexandersson and Jari Ilola 45 years after the last title for the fifth championship in club history. On 31 March the following year he won the club by a 1-0 win after a goal by James Keene on cup winners Helsingborgs IF with the inaugural Swedish Supercup the next track. In the summer he joined the club in qualifying for the UEFA Champions League 2007 /08, where after wins over the Northern Irish club Linfield FC and the Hungarian champions Debreceni Vasutas SC the Spanish team Valencia with wins in two games as a barrier high enough to proved.
In the following years Haglund IF Elfsborg established in the front league area. According to the vice championship behind Kalmar FF in the season 2008, the club extended his contract until the end of 2012. Nevertheless, he was taken in the sequence often with foreign clubs in conjunction. In the following years he was with his team always the favorites for the championship title. He regularly went with her into the UEFA Europa League. Shortly after the end of the season 2011, in which he had occupied with her third place behind champions Helsingborgs IF and AIK, he announced his departure from the club, to search for eight years as a coach with chief responsibility for a new challenge.
In November 2011, the press reported Haglunds commitment to the Norwegian club Lillestrøm SK. When antretenden in the Tippeligaen club he signed a contract with two years duration.