Patrik Andersson

Patrik ' Bjärred ' Andersson ( born August 18, 1971 in Borgeby ) is a former Swedish football player, who is now working as a team official. The defender, who has played 96 international matches for the Swedish national team between 1992 and 2002, scoring three goals in the process, was awarded the 1995 and 2001 Guldbollen "Sweden's Footballer of the Year."

Career

Start your career in Sweden

Andersson began his career at the age of eight years with his hometown club Bjärreds IF. His father, the former Swedish international Roy Andersson, wanted him until the vormaligem club Malmö FF joined as soon as he can play in the first team. Therefore, he joined in the summer of 1988 as a 17 -year-old to MFF, where he made ​​his debut a year later in the Allsvenskan. Under coach Roy Hodgson he was parallel to the first division and for the youth team in the season 1989. In the autumn of that year he reached with the youth team to the playoffs the Swedish Championship. Since the same day decency play in the Allsvenskan, he first went to the A- team against AIK before the 2-0 first-leg win he played later against the offspring of IF Brommapojkarna. After a 0-2 defeat in the return game and the playoff went - this time without the involvement Andersson - lost and after the final defeat in the Allsvenskan against IFK Norrköping he just missed his first two titles profits.

Prior to the 1990 season Bob Houghton took over as coach at Malmö FF. Under his leadership Andersson became final team regular, where he was used as needed as a central defender or defensive midfielder. Although he scored with the team now only midfield places, yet he played in the notebook of the national coach Tommy Svensson. On January 29, 1992, he made ​​his debut in the 0-1 defeat against the Australian national team at the side of Håkan Mild, Stefan Rehn and Magnus Erling Mark the Swedish national jersey. As a central defender on the side of Jan Eriksson, he established himself in the team and stood at the European Championships in 1992 in the group stage in the game. However, in the 2:3 defeat to eventual runners - European champion Germany in the semi finals of the tournament, he could not accrue due to suspension.

Years abroad

After the end of the season 1992 Andersson left his homeland in the autumn of the year. Meanwhile, internationally known, he moved to England to Blackburn Rovers in the Premier League. There manager Kenny Dalglish put him mainly in midfield, where he is not convinced, however, and hardly used.

After only one year Andersson joined in autumn 1993 after Germany for Borussia Mönchengladbach. From his debut in a 3-2 win over Werder Bremen on 19 November of that year he was a regular under coach Bernd Krauss. After the end of the season, which he finished with the club as a table Tenth, he was at the World Championship Tournament 1994 for the Swedish squad selection. In the United States he came in all six finals games of the national team for the use and thus contributed to the third place, the best result since the 1958 World Cup, at. As a result, he was awarded the team with the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal - for the best Swedish sports performance.

At the end of the Bundesliga season 1994/95 stood for Andersson, who stood in all 34 Bundesliga matches on the court, the first title. Having been in the league fifth place was occupied, he won with the team the final of the DFB-Pokal 1994/95 by goals of his compatriot Martin Dahlin, Stefan Effenberg and Heiko Herrlich with a 3-0 win over second division VfL Wolfsburg DFB Cup. At the end of his good performances were honored with the award at Sweden's Footballer of the Year. In the following season he reached with Borussia in the European Cup Winners 1995/96 quarter-finals of the competition. There, the club failed after a 2-2 home draw after a 0-1 away loss in the second leg at the Dutch representative Feyenoord Rotterdam. With four goals this season in 33 games, he helped the club to fourth place in the table, so that the club was still represented in the following year in the European Cup. Although it has been thrown to the start of the season, Arsenal by two victories in the UEFA Cup in 1996/97 from the competition, the following season was mixed. After Zweitrundenaus against AS Monaco Andersson finished with the club only tenth.

Long been a regular in the national team inherited Andersson in the course of 1997, Jonas Thern, who ended his international career due to injury, as captain of the national selection. A year later, the same honor at club level he was granted when he rose early in the season 1998/99 as the successor of the FC Bayern Munich Stefan Effenberg migrated to the captain of Gladbach. Yet in 28 league games he could not prevent the descent of the multiple German champion of the Bundesliga, but was still elected by the followers in the " ( Borussia ) Eleven of the Century" at one hundred club anniversary in August 2000.

For the season 1999/2000 Andersson was transferred for a transfer fee of around four million DM to Bayern Munich. Initially, only a reserve player, he won with the club at the end of the season the championship and the DFB-Pokal 1999/2000, when the team clearly defeated with goals from Giovane Élber, Paulo Sérgio and Mehmet Scholl Werder Bremen 3-0. He also moved the team semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League, in which the eventual winner Real Madrid prevailed. After the end of the season he began with the national team, which had not qualified for a major tournament since 1994, participated in the 2000 European Championships. He came in two preliminary games to use after he was sent off in the 1-2 defeat against Belgium. As a group, the last team retired early from the competition.

The following year he was long stretches of game time to the regulars, but fell in between often with minor injuries. On the final day of the season 2000/ 01 he scored in the 1-1 draw at Hamburg his only Bundesliga goal for Bayern Munich when he converted an indirect free kick in the fourth minute of injury time. With this equalizer, he helped the club to win the league, because thus the FC Schalke 04 was surpassed. Four days later he was with the club in the final of the UEFA Champions League 2000 /01 against the Spanish side FC Valencia, which was decided on penalties. Although his penalty kick was held by Santiago Cañizares, the team after three of Oliver Kahn parried penalty kicks the trophy won.

In July 2001, Andersson left Germany. For a fee of just over 15 million marks, he moved to Spain, where he signed a four-year contract with FC Barcelona. He was elected for the second time in Sweden Footballer of the Year in late 2001. Due to injury, he came to the end of 2003, however, only 19 inserts for the Catalan club in the Primera División. Therefore, he also missed the 2002 World Cup, in their preparation, he 's 1-1 draw against Japan played his final 96 matches in May, and was replaced by Andreas Jakobsson as a central defender. After the team was eliminated in the second round, he ended his international career.

Return to Sweden

In January 2004, Andersson returned after twelve years back to his first professional Station Malmo FF. On the side of players like Andreas Yngvesson, Afonso Alves, Mattias Asper and Daniel Majstorovic he ran in ten games into the season 2004 and contributed to winning the Lennart Johansson - Cup for the Swedish national champion. In the following season, he played nine more games before it in a qualification match for the UEFA Champions League against Swiss club FC Thun drew upon in August 2005 2005 /06 a torn ACL and meniscus damage. A short time later, he announced his career end.

After the active football

In October 2007, Andersson was offered the acquisition of an office in his former game station Malmö FF, which he refused. In December of the following year, the club announced that was released after four unsuccessful years, the sporting director Hans Borg and Andersson has named as his successor. Since 2011 Patrik Andersson is also partly responsible for the Scandinavian distributor of the football brand Pelé Sports.

Others

Andersson was born as the son of the Swedish international's Roy Andersson and is the older brother of Daniel Andersson, who also international was in his career.

Parallel to Andersson's career in the 1990s in Sweden ran on in Allsvenskan Patrik Andersson. In order to better distinguish between the two players with the same sounding name, they were given their homes as a nickname. So Andersson got his nickname " Bjärred " while the competitor was called Patrick " Trelleborg " Andersson.

Achievements

  • Third in the 1994 World Cup
  • World Cup 2001
  • Champions League 2001
  • Swedish Champion 2004
  • German Champion 2000, 2001
  • DFB Cup winners 1995, 2000,
  • League Cup winners: 1999, 2000

Awards

Borgeby Castle Defender (association football) Blackburn Rovers F.C. 1989 Allsvenskan 1990 Allsvenskan 1992 Allsvenskan 1994–95 DFB-Pokal 1995–96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1996–97 UEFA Cup AS Monaco FC 1999–2000 DFB-Pokal 2000–01 UEFA Champions League Valencia CF 2004 Allsvenskan Lennart Johanssons Pokal Hasse Borg 1999 DFB-Ligapokal 2000 DFB-Ligapokal Magnus Hedman Roland Nilsson
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