Mats Jingblad

Mats Jingblad ( born August 9, 1958 in Halmstad ) is a former Swedish football player who began a coaching career following his playing career. Both as a player and as coach of the offensive player who aground between 1982 and 1984 in ten appearances for the Swedish national team, scoring eight goals, won the Swedish championship title.

Career

Ten years Allsvenskan

Jingblad began his career at BK Astrio, which he left as a young talent early 1977 towards Halmstad BK. At the reigning champion, he came under coach Roy Hodgson in his first season as a reserve player to five stakes in the Allsvenskan. During the 1978 season he won a regular place, despite a good start to the season he placed with the team led by Hans Selander, Rutger jaw and Bertil Andersson, however, only as a table of eight. Finally, in his third year, he was in 24 of the 26 season games on site. With eight goals this season, he was instrumental in winning the Von Rosen's Cup for the Swedish national champion, as IFK Göteborg was distanced by one point.

Again followed after winning the title a mixed season for the club. Although Jingblad was still a regular player under Hodgson and - as this also followed the previously active in Sweden Bob Houghton as assistant coach to Bristol City in the summer of 1980 - his successor Rolf Andersson, nevertheless ranged his five goals this season, only the eighth in the standings. Under coach Jan Mak he stormed into the season 1981 regular and crowned with nine goals this season for best internal association scorers, on the side of Lennart Ljung, but Frenk Schinkel and Jan Jönsson manifested the team its role as a midfielder club and moved in the following year as last of the eight qualified for the championship finals teams in the play-off games, where she retired against UEFA Cup winners IFK Göteborg in the first round. Nevertheless, he had played during the year 1982 in the foreground and was appointed national coach Lars Arnesson in the Swedish national team. In the 2-2 draw against the Czechoslovakian national team on October 6, as part of the qualification for the European Championship 1984, he came on as a substitute for Jan Svensson used and scored in the 89th minute with the 1:2 connection hit his first international goal. In the following games he remained in the national team but most of the space on the bench, in the course of the season 1983, in which he enlisted as a regular scorer in Allsvenskan for himself - his twelve goals this season led him behind Thomas Ahlström on with Sören Börjesson shared second place scorer - he won also places in the starting lineup of the national team. He managed in a friendly match against the national team of Trinidad and Tobago a hat-trick when he shone as a scorer in the 5-0 success alongside Sven Dahlkvist and Thomas Sunesson.

While Jingblad with his club in the season 1984 played in the league in back of the midfield and after the team at times stood in the relegation battle, again the final round reached with her as a table of eight for the championship, he came again only sporadically in the national team for the use and was no longer considered the middle of the year. While still under the regular players now committed Stefan Lundin went back his strike rate and after relegation at the end of the season in 1987 he left after 218 Allsvenskan games and 65 Erstligatoren the club to return to BK Astrio. In his hometown club, with which he marched through from the fifth to the third league, he was active until 1991.

As a coach in Sweden and Greece

1992 Jingblad returned back to his long-time game station Halmstad BK to take over as coach during the previous year relegated from Allsvenskan club. At the end of his first season with the team he got right back on and reached through an aggressively embodied way of playing with her fifth place in the table. After a seventh place in the following year he led the team to Håkan Svensson, Niclas Alexandersson, Jesper Mattsson, Fredrik Ljungberg and Torbjörn Arvidsson one hand, in the season 1995 to the third spot behind series champion IFK Gothenburg and Helsingborgs IF on the other hand into the final of the National Cup. With a 3-1 win against AIK, the club won the trophy for the first time and then joined in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1995/96. In the first round on away goals against Lokomotiv Sofia successfully stood the team in the second round against the Italian representatives Parma verge of a sensation. The discharged due to a strike by the Gothenburg Gamla Ullevi first leg was won by the club with goals from Robert Andersson and the two -goal Niklas Gudmundsson 3-0 in the second leg, however, the association of Parma was already after two minutes by Filippo Inzaghi in the lead and sat ultimately by a 4-0 win.

Due to its success Jingblad had awakened the greed of IFK Gothenburg, who was looking for a successor to Roger Gustafsson. With the team around players like Magnus Erling Mark, Andreas Andersson, Mikael Nilsson, Teddy Lucic and Jesper Blomqvist he sat down with ten points ahead of runner-up Malmö FF by and defended the title the previous year. In the following season he reached with the team behind his former club Halmstad BK the runner before the club slipped at the start of the season 1998 in the rear League area. As a result Jingbald resigned from his office, so that the club in the club's history during the season changed his trainer for the first time.

Jingblad signed a contract with Greek club Iraklis Thessaloniki, where he inherited the dismissed Kiril Dojcinovski. According to a ninth place in the table to the end of the season he was later replaced by Angelos Anastasiadis. In 2000 he returned to Sweden and took over the coaching reins at Örebro SK. Under his leadership, the club initially took a positive development and was at times among the top three teams. In the summer of 2001, therefore, interpreted the character despite a tense economic situation at the club on an extension of the collaboration. End of September, he eventually extended his contract. However, in the summer of 2002, he announced his farewell to the end of the season and was replaced after the season by Stefan Lundin. Subsequently, he was responsible for one season Ängelholms FF in the second-rate Superettan.

In November 2003 Jingblad returned to international football when he again hired at Iraklis Thessaloniki and the sacked Dutchman Eugene Gerard replaced. Although he reached with the team to Edvin Murati, Nikolaos Machlas and Marcin Mięciel the eighth place in the standings, his end of the season expiring contract was not renewed. He then returned again to Sweden to take over after the dismissal of Jan Jönsson Landskrona BoIS. The hovering in danger of relegation team he led in the 2004 to the last non- relegation zone, the following season, he finished with the club in the relegation place. Against GAIS missed the team with a 0-0 Unnetschieden in the second leg after a 1-2 defeat in Gothenburg in the league. He then announced, despite the continuing valid contract on his departure from the club. A few days later, he announced a commitment to playing in the Superettan IFK Norrköping, with whom he signed a three -year contract. With a re-arranged much of team he missed as a table fourth in the second division season 2006 just to climb before he celebrated the second division championship in the following season. In November 2007 he was given more administrative skills and received with Sören Cratz and Sulo Vaattovaara two new assistant coach. However, after five rounds of the premiership season 2008 he left his post as head coach and moved up to the head of sport. However, from the set moved his successor as coach Soren Cratz the team won only one game, so Jingblad returned in mid-July to the dugout. Also under his leadership, however, remained with the team to Kevin Amuneke, Thomas Magnusson and Kristoffer Arvhage from the success. After only four wins this season, the Movers finished the season in last place in the table. Two games before the season's end, the association announced the separation end of the season.

In December 2011 Jingblads longtime club Halmstad BK engaged him as a coach for the U-19 youth team. By a 5-3 playoff victory against the offspring of the Stockholm club Hammarby IF he won the Swedish Junior Championship with the team in 2012.