Peter Markstedt
Peter Markstedt ( born January 11, 1972 in Västerås) is a Swedish former football player. The striker played his career in Sweden, England and Norway. Following his playing career, he worked as an official and coach.
Career
Markstedt began his career at Västerås SK in his hometown, for whom he made his debut in the competition team 1991. He first appeared as a defensive player with the club to only second-and third-rate but managed with the team under coach Lennart Söderberg end of 1996, the rise in the Allsvenskan. On the side of Fredrik and Stefan Giesecke Bärlin he finished with the club at the end of the 1997 the third last place. In the subsequent relegation matches against BK Hacken he missed the league.
Meanwhile Markstedt however, had attracted attention outside the country and moved in November 1997 just after the end of season in Sweden in the English Premier League newly promoted Barnsley FC. However, under coach Danny Wilson he remained despite one promising debuts denied the breakthrough in the 1-0 away victory against Liverpool in the team to Eric Tinkler, Lars Leese, Darren Barnard and Ashley Ward. Therefore he returned after two injury- embossed years 1999 back to Sweden. In Helsingborgs IF he should replace Andreas Jakobsson, who was standing with several foreign clubs in conjunction. Ultimately did not materialize, the change of competitors and for Markstedt remained in the course of the 1999 supplement the role of the player. With nine league operations, he contributed to winning the league title. In the following season, the club gave him to his first game station in the adult area. When Västerås SK he shone as a regular scorer and led him with ten goals this season in the second division season 2000 to fifth place in the table.
As a prolific attacker Markstedt had made higher class attention. Before the season 2001 he joined the Stockholm club Hammarby IF in the Allsvenskan to. In the trained by Sören Cratz team around players like Andreas Image, Kennedy Bakırcıoğlu, Andreas Hermansson, Hans Eskilsson and Jonas Stark he was at first team regular, scoring on the way to the championship five goals this season. While he was in the following season with twelve goals this season among the top five scorers in the league, it was enough for the club but only for fourth place. In the 2003 he played only eleven league games.
After he was still presented in early December 2003 as a playing assistant coach at his hometown club Västerås SK, but the club could not agree with Hammarby IF, he joined shortly before the new year to Norway to Lyn Oslo. In the Tippeligaen he ran one season before he broke up his two-year contract ahead and signed a three -year contract at Västerås SK as player-coach in November 2004. At the end of the second division season 2005 he joined the club despite his two goals this season in 20 games from the Superettan from. By season's end, he resigned from his coaching job. After a year in the third division he ended his active career in late 2006.
After the End of career Markstedt moved to the sports boss on with his hometown club. Already in the summer of the following year he resigned from the position. In 2010 he took over as coach at unterklassig antretenden club IK Franke. In June 2011 Markstedt returned again to Västerås SK, took over the role of assistant coach Eric Acar, who had recently replaced Kalle Granath as head coach at the side of Stefan Bärlin.