Rasmus Lindgren
Rasmus Lindgren ( born November 29, 1984 in Landskrona ) is a Swedish football player. The defensive midfielder is currently without a club, but is available from 1 January 2013 the Dutch first division club FC Groningen under contract. He made his debut in November 2008 in the Swedish national team.
Career
Beginnings in Sweden
Lindgren came in 2001 to Landskrona BoIS. There he first played in the youth. In the season of 2002 he was appointed to the Allsvenskanskader of the in relegation battle club. Although he trained regularly with the competition team, but did not play. Nevertheless, the talent Lindgren had gotten around and Dutch giants Ajax Amsterdam invited the midfielder in November of the year on trial for the U23 team of a traditional club. There he was able to convince and signed a one and a half year contract, Ajax paid 1.5 million Swedish crowns training compensation to his old club. On 27 April 2004, the youngster made his debut in the 2-0 away win at the Croatian Under-21 national team in the schwedischenen U21 squad. In the following games, he managed to establish itself in the squad of the national team.
Time at Ajax and FC Groningen
After Lindgren had established himself as a regular force in the Ajax reserve team and was appointed team captain, he was appointed to the cadre of competition team in the season 2004 /05. On 13 February 2005, he made his debut in the 2-1 win away to NAC Breda in the Eredivisie. Under coach Ronald Koeman he was subsequently continued in the squad, but came infrequently used. As his successor, Danny Blind, despite a contract extension Lindgren on other players sat, the midfielder was initially loaned out to league rivals FC Groningen.
At FC Groningen Lindgren prevailed to players like Glen Salmon, Erik Nevland or Yevgeny Levtjenko as a regular force in the team and was erected in his first season of coach Ron Jans in 32 games in the Eredivisie. Also in the Dutch qualifying round for the starting place in qualifying for the UEFA Champions League, he came in all four games for use, but the club failed to return game in the last round of Lindgren vorigem club Ajax. Due to the stable performance of the club undertook the defensive midfielder fixed one years before his end of the contract at Ajax. He was able to confirm their continued confidence to the club officials for the most part, but was first referenced in his career, the field also on 25 October 2006. In the 2-1 win over Excelsior Rotterdam by two goals Nevlands he saw in the 81 minutes the yellow card.
Return to Ajax and debut in the national jersey
After Lindgren in the first six series of the season 2007 /08 strong tune, to Ajax coach Marco van Basten decided to retrieve the player during the winter break. As a transfer fee of the traditional club had about 24 million Swedish crowns in the north of the Netherlands. Even coach Lars Lagerback was aware of the midfielder and nominated him for the game between the Swedish country selection against the Turkish state selection in February 2008. However due to a hamstring injury he had to cancel his international debut and was replaced by Andreas Dahl. A short time later he was fit again and scored in a 6-2 win over Sparta Rotterdam on February 15, his first goal for Ajax. After narrowly missing out to the end of the season just a game, he was also in the following season on the side of Klaas -Jan Huntelaar, Oleguer and Luis Suárez to the regular forces. In November, he was re-appointed by Lagerback for the Swedish national team game against the Dutch Oranje. On 19 November 2008, he was in the 1-3 defeat 90 minutes of play in the " domestic" Amsterdam Arena on the court. After he came in as a reserve player of the season 2010/11 only to inserts and as stiff competition was present with de Zeeuw and Enoh to his position, he moved in summer 2011 to Austria for FC Red Bull Salzburg.
New challenge in Salzburg
In Salzburg Lindgren signed a contract until 30 June 2013 and should increase there with his international experience on the defensive. He got there, and as in Groningen, the back number "21", previously wore the Salzburg scorer and fan favorite Marc Janko before his move to FC Twente Enschede. His first goal for Salzburg he shot at 27.Match day and although the 2-2 equalizer against FC Admira Wacker Mödling. In the season 2011/12 he came to a total of 20 missions and scored a goal. At the beginning of the 2012/13 season Lindgren was deleted in the course of the squad restructuring of the senior squad. End of September 2012, the contract was terminated early by mutual agreement. Then he was out of contract.
Return to Groningen
On 1 Januer 2013 it undertook the Dutch first division side FC Groningen. He signed a three and a half year contract until the end of June 2016.