Mathias Florén

Mathias Florén ( born August 11, 1976 in Söderhamn) is a Swedish football player. The defender and midfielder, who played for several years in the Netherlands, ran twice in 2001 on the Swedish national team.

Career

Career start in Sweden and national

Florén played in youth at Marma IF. For the club he made his debut as a five- year-old in 1991 in Division V. In two seasons, he was in 43 games on 19 goals and was therefore obliged by the third division Alnö IF 1993. Here he remained for two years and graduated in 1995 the second division GIF Sundsvall.

After nine goals were succeeded him in the second division in the 1996, Florén changed in the following season in the Allsvenskan for IFK Norrköping. Again, he was able to establish itself as a regular force and missed for the seasons 1998, 1999 and 2000, no season game.

Then Florén was appointed in the spring of 2001 in the national team. In one consisting of players from the northern European leagues Select a country he had to accept alongside other debutant Sharbel Touma or as Kennedy Bakırcıoğlu a 0-1 defeat against the Finnish selection on 1 February of the year. A week later he played in the 4-1 win over Thailand as part of the King's Cup for the second and last time a game in the Swedish National Jersey. In the following season he landed with his club only on the relegation place, but could Mjallby AIF defeated and the relegation be done in the playoffs.

Experience abroad and return to Sweden

After the season Florén joined the Dutch Eredivisie and was already on in November for his new employer, FC Groningen, in the league. In his debut season he helped the club in 18 games this season in which he participated, for relegation. As a regular player he made under the committed in October 2002 coach Ron Jans in the following years for this that kept the team just ahead of the relegation places.

With 25 missions in the season 2006 /07 he was among the group of players that led the former relegation candidates to fifth place in the standings surprising. Along with his compatriot Rasmus Lindgren, he moved with the team in the play-offs for a place in the qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League. Although he did not come there to use, but was pleased with the move into the UEFA Cup. The loss of the parent course was also evident at the start of the following season and felt he came mainly as a substitute for use.

On 1 January 2007 Florén returned to slightly more than five years back at FC Groningen in the Allsvenskan and switched to IF Elfsborg. However, due to a knee injury he came in the 2007 only ten missions. In the following season he established himself at multiple Swedish champion as a regular force. On the side of Teddy Lucic, Daniel Mobaeck and Jari Ilola he missed only two of the 30 season games and reached the club to the runner-up behind Kalmar FF. He also pulled in the summer with the team on a UEFA Intertoto Cup in the UEFA Cup in 2008/ 09, but failed with the team right away at Irish club St Patrick's Athletic. In the following season Florén was a regular force, he moved again to the club in third place in the European Cup. In the UEFA Europa League 2009/10, he missed the team against Lazio in the play- off matches to reach the group phase, while the end of the 2010 season with the club at the side of Denni Avdić, Daniel Mobaeck and Martin Ericsson in fourth place went to.

In early 2011 returned Florén back to IFK Norrköping. When Erstligaaufsteiger he signed a three -year contract in December 2010.