Roger Gustafsson

Roger Gustafsson (* February 29, 1952 in Gothenburg ) is a former Swedish football coach. After a playing career as a defender, which had enabled him a handful Erstligaeinsätze and mainly took place in the lower league field, he won as coach of IFK Gothenburg multiply the Swedish championship and the national cup. He is particular as coach of the team in mind, the 1994/95 started as underdogs in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League standings ahead of FC Barcelona, Manchester United and Galatasaray moved into the quarter-finals, in which they failed at Bayern Munich. Later he worked as a functionary in particular in the youth field.

Career

Playing career

Gustafsson began his playing career at the Gothenburg club BK Hacken. When unterklassig antretenden club who shuttled between the fourth and fifth level of play in the early 1970s, he made the charge of the higher class antretenden local rivals GAIS attention. Before the start of the Premiership season in 1974, he joined the club in the Allsvenskan. On the side of Kenneth Wessberg, A Fredriksson, Sten Pålsson and Nils Norlander he was primarily a reserve player and played in his first season in Sweden's Elite series nine Erstligaeinsätze. Although he scored in his second year his first league goal for the club under coach Vilmos Varszegi he still does not belong to the core team and could therefore not prevent the descent of the team in the second division.

Gustafsson then returned to his hometown club BK Hacken, who had risen in the same year in the third league. Here he was one of the supports, which helped the club after an eighth place in the first year of Season Championship in 1977 in the Division 3 Nordvästra Götaland. In the promotion round, he sat down with the club despite a defeat against IK Brage before Degerfors IF and Motala AIF as group runners through. However, after the success he left the club and returned to GAIS. Again he came in the club, which placed itself in the two years of its re- affiliation to a club behind BK Hacken, infrequently used. He then returned again to BK Hacken.

Coaching career

In 1983, Gustafsson a coaching job in the junior department of IFK Gothenburg. Once in the course of the 1980s to the UEFA Cup victory run twice by Sven -Goran Eriksson and Gunder Bengtsson team under coach Kjell Pettersson had slipped into the back midfield as a table seventh in the season 1989 and the championship finals had missed, he advanced before the game time 1990 coach to the first division. After his coaching debut in Allsvenskan had failed with a 0:6 defeat to IFK Norrkoping, he led the team to Thomas Ravelli, Magnus Johansson, Kaj Eskelinen, Stefan Rehn and Pontus Kåmark as the leader of the regular playing time in the final round. There he reached the final against IFK Norrköping and retaliated with a 3-0 away win for the opening defeat. With a 0-0 draw at Ullevi he secured with the team in the second leg of the championship.

Even in the subsequent season dominated Gustafsson with the team the championship and took a 3-2 success after extra time in the final of the National Cup against AIK the Double. Had the club in 1991/92 still missed the group stage in the European Champions Cup, they sat down in the first round of the UEFA Champions League 1992/93 against Beşiktaş Istanbul and Lech Poznan by and was at the opening of the newly created competition promptly in the top eight clubs represented. After two defeats against the loss point free group winners AC Milan in the final, meaningless game against FC Porto he missed a second group the final of the Olympic Stadium in Munich. Nevertheless, the year 1993 was not without title success, for the third time in four years took IFK Gothenburg the championship. This represented in qualifying for the Champions League 1994/95, was beaten in the Sparta Prague, attended the team to Jesper Blomqvist, Magnus Erling Mark, Stefan Pettersson and Joachim Björklund in the group stage sensation. Although the first match against Manchester United was lost, then the team sat with four consecutive wins - a 2-1 home success against FC Barcelona, ​​each 1-0 victory against Galatasaray in both Sweden and Turkey and a 3 :1 home win against Manchester United - to the top of the table. Even in the final game at Camp Nou remained Gustafsson Elf without defeat and parted 1-1. Even in the two quarter-final games against German side FC Bayern Munich lost a game. In Munich's Olympic Stadium, there was a goalless draw before the return match Alexander Zickler and Christian Nerlinger shot the German club in front. Although resembled substitute Mats Lily Berg and Mikael Martinsson the score still out on the away goals rule missed the Swedish team to the semi-finals. After leading the team at the end of the season in 1995 to the championship again, he pulled back and he handed the coaching reins to Mats Jingblad.

Official activities and brief return as coach

Gustafsson returned to the youth work. On one hand, he continued to work for IFK Gothenburg, on the other hand he developed in collaboration with the Svenska Fotbollförbundet and the Gothenburg Football Federation approach to improving youth work in Sweden, which was released under the name " Fotbollens Hemligheter ". Later he became sports director at IFK Gothenburg.

When, in the course of the 2002 season the team came in danger of relegation, Gustafsson inherited the end of August of this year Stefan Lundin as a coach. By the end of the season in the Official team survived under his leadership the relegation matches against local rivals Västra Frölunda IF and remained top notch. Subsequently, the former coach of the Danish national team bosses Johansson became the new coach, Gustafsson returned to the management. As a junior he was a coordinator in 2007 to the founding fathers of Änglagårdsskolan that seeks to promote a parallel school and soccer players training at IFK Gothenburg on the model of La Masia.

On the side of Pia Sundhage, Jörgen Pettersson and Gustafsson Magnus Wislander was taken in May 2010 in the Hall of Fame of the Gothenburg Sports.

Awards and achievements

• Swedish Champion: 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995
• Swedish Cup winner: 1991
• Member of the Hall of Fame of the Gothenburg Sports