Per-Ola Ljung
Per- Ola Ljung ( born November 7, 1967) is a Swedish former football player who now works as a coach. The defender won with Helsingborgs IF in each case as player and coach once the national champion title and even the National Cup.
Career
Ljung comes from the youth of Hästveda IF, from there he moved to IFK Hässleholm. In early 1988 he left the time of his second division and joined the antretenden in the third- highest division Helsingborgs IF on. In his second year at the new club he went with the team around the former goalkeeper January Möller, Peter Esbjerg and Urban Stoltz in the second league, where they missed a point behind the Gothenburg club BK Hacken the walkover in the Allsvenskan. In the following season, the decision was narrow, in the last round of games ascent continued with Västra Frölunda IF again Gothenburg club by, the decision was made after return game on the away goals rule.
At the end of the season 1992 Ljung rose with Helsingborgs IF in the Allsvenskan with young talent like Henrik Larsson - studded team placed, Jesper Ljung and Ola Nilsson firmly in the league - with 16 goals this season one of the guarantors of the league. He had the second highest value after goalkeeper Sven Andersson with 25 league operations. In the season 1995 Coach Reine Almqvist led the club in the top flight, with 18 league games wore Ljung at the runner-up behind series champion IFK Gothenburg. He had the following season sidelined through injury for long stretches of the season, he was then re- strain force on the full-back position. Even under Almqvists successor Åge Hareide he was one of the regulars and won the 1998 National Cup. Meanwhile, he skipped the 500 games limit for Helsingborgs IF. In the summer of the 1999 season he left after nine inserts the club, the national champion was at the end of the season, and hired the second division club Landskrona BoIS. With the club he qualified for the single-track Superettan. At the end of the second division season 2001 he went with the team to Matthias Eklund, Alexander Farnerud, Henrik Nilsson and Daniel Nannskog in the Allsvenskan on, after another season in the Swedish Elitserie he ended his active career.
After his career end Ljung initially worked at the unterklassig antretenden amateur clubs Torns IF and Helsingborgs Södra BIS as coach, before he returned as a youth coach for Helsingborgs IF in 2007. Later he was promoted to assistant coach of Premiership football team, and served from 2010 officially as head coach, as the newly signed Conny Karlsson did not have a sufficient coaching license. In the season 2011, the team led the club to its most successful season to the club's history, as the club won the championship in addition also Cup and Supercup. In December closed Ljung from his coaching training and received the UEFA Pro Licence. In summer 2012, the club of it isolated. A few days later the hitherto winless, present as Table in danger of relegation league rival Örebro SK signed him as a successor to the dismissed Sixten Boström. While under his leadership, the team won five games, but it was not enough to avoid relegation.