Per Karlsson
Karlsson in August 2013
Per Karlsson ( born January 2, 1986 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish football player. The defender, who was with AIK Swedish champion and cup winner, went through all Swedish junior national teams and made his debut in 2010 in the senior team.
Career
Karlsson began playing football at Vasalunds IF. Those in charge of the first division club AIK discovered his talent and brought him in 1998 the own youth department. There he became the junior national team and came for the U-15 national team of Sweden 's 4-2 victory over the Finnish U- 15 team alongside players such as Ajsel Kujovic, Labinot Harbuzi or Oskar Rönningberg his debut in the National Jersey. In the following years he was able to establish itself among the best players in his class and was a regular in the squad of junior national teams.
In the 2003 Karlsson was appointed to the First Team of the traditional club. His debut in the first team he celebrated on 29 May of the year when he appeared as a substitute in a cup match against BK Hacken in the 75th minute for Jimmy Tamandi. It took some time until the summer he could fight in the squad for a Allsvenskanspiel and took a seat on the bench. To his Erstligadebüt he came in the 1-3 away defeat at Örgryte IS, as he came off the bench on 23 July of the year in Gothenburg ten minutes before the end of the game for Krister Nordin. In the following years he alternated between stand and bench and came in his first season in professional football to no further use. He established until the middle of the 2004 in the squad and battled when Fredrik Björck and Per Nilsson failed due to an injury, temporarily a regular place in the back line before goalkeeper and team captain Håkan Svensson. Towards the end of the season he was again among the substitutes and after a complicated tibia fracture in early May of the next year he fell to season end.
To leave Karlsson come to play practice, he moved on loan to 2006 Väsby United, at the time the farm team AIK in the Superettan. He could not sit down and sat at start of the season on the bench. With a training game against the second team of AIK after the third round in early May, he broke his arm and fell again extended periods of time. Without having a league match for the club denied, he returned after the season for AIK and was awarded on its own whoosh for the following season again. In order not to end up as a replacement of a regular player Nicklas Carlsson and Niklas Sandberg on the bench, he went to Åtvidabergs FF in the Superettan. As a regular player in the defense, he reached with the club from Östergötland the sixth of the second division and returned after a break due to his injuries back to the National Jersey. In the 4-2 win over the U21 Latvia he ran to the side of Tom Siwe, Mattias Olsson and Martin Bjärsmyr on in defense formation of the Swedish U21 national team.
For the 2008 season Karlsson returned after two years in the second division to AIK back. As coach Rikard Norling initially Daniel Arnefjord, Walid Atta, Pierre Bengtsson and Nils -Eric Johansson preferred in stem formation, he was again first on the bench. From Matchday but he was able to establish himself in the starting line-up and maintain a regular place. After he had made in 2009 in nine of the eleven season games before the summer break of the Swedish league used, it was the end of May from the selection coaches Tommy Söderberg and Jörgen Lennartsson alongside his team-mate Gabriel Özkan and Pierre Bengtsson for the Swedish squad at the U- 21 Championship in their own country considered.
After Karlsson had failed with the U -21 until the semi-finals, he was successful at club level. In all his 26 games of the season in the starting lineup, he was instrumental to winning the Lennart Johansson - Cup for the Swedish national champion at season's end. In addition, he stood in the cup final against IFK Gothenburg on the side of Jos Hooiveld in central defense and celebrated after the 2-0 win thanks to goals from Mauro Iván Óbolo and Antônio Flávio the Double. With good performances during the season, he had distinguished himself so that coach Erik Hamrén appointed him for the opening matches in 2010 in the national squad. In the 1-0 win over the country's selection of Oman on January 20th of the year with a goal by Anders Svensson made his debut in the National Jersey. In the subsequent season, played in the team against relegation, mostly regulars, he was injured in September on the glutes. Despite warning of the medical department ordered three weeks later by coach Alex Miller back in the team, the injury broke up again and prevented further operations until the end of the season in November.
In the pre-season injury slowed Niklas Backman and Alexander Milošević established themselves as key players in central defense. Despite only six stakes during the season, he agreed shortly after the end of the 2011 with the club officials of the runners-up on an extension of his contract expires in 2012 and signed a new three -year contract.