Roger Ljung
Roger Ljung ( born January 8, 1966 in Lomma, Sweden ) is a former Swedish football player. The midfielder took part with the Swedish national team in two World Cup and a European Championship finals. Every once he won the Swedish and Turkish league title, and once the Swedish National Cup.
Career
Career beginning and title wins in Sweden
Ljung began at the age of six years playing football at Lunds BK, since the nearest club GIF Nike had no youth team of the appropriate age. Here he went through the various youth teams and made his debut as a teenager in the men's team of the club. On the side of the later international's Leif Engqvist he missed with the club at the end of the second division season in 1984 as Table Thirteenth relegation.
Here, the duo had made higher class attention and Ljung joined shortly after Engqvist had signed a contract with Malmö FF also to the club in the Allsvenskan. In managed by Roy Hodgson team that finished in the season 1985 regular season on the first place in the table and in the championship finals in the semifinals failed to IFK Göteborg, he came on as a substitute for use. In the following season he was on the side of Ingemar Erlandsson, Jan Möller and Jonas Thern only sporadically to winning the league title. Only in the season 1987 succeeded Ljung breakthrough in Malmö FF. He benefited from the injury woes of Hans Borg and Magnus Andersson. As a regular player, he moved with the team again in the final of the Swedish championship. With top scorer Lasse Larsson, Stefan Schwarz and Joakim Nilsson he missed after a 0-1 defeat and a 2-1 home win on away goals rule the championship win.
Nevertheless Ljung had played to NotePad national coach Olle Nordin. On January 12, 1988, he debuted as part of a four-nation tournament in the Canary Islands in the 4-1 victory over the East German national team in the National Jersey, as Jonas Thern, get the two goals, Peter Truedsson, Stefan Rehn and the opposite side Andreas Thom enlisted on the scoresheet. Three days later he was in a 1-0 win over Finland with a goal of Thern in the tournament win. Even when carried out at Easter 1988 four-nation tournament, he was beside Glenn Strömberg, Mats Gren and Robert Prytz the victorious team. He also took into account in the summer in the Olympic squad selection, which moved into the quarter-finals under the guidance of coach Benny Lennartsson at the 1988 Olympic Games.
After Ljung was able to prove with Malmö FF already in the regular season ranked first in the 1988, he won at the side of Niclas Nylén, Jonas Thern or Martin Dahlin with the club after beating Örgryte IS and Djurgårdens IF the first time the von Rosen Cup for the national championship. In the summer of that year he celebrated his second title with Malmö FF, as in the final Djurgårdens IF was beaten. A short time later, he left the club and his country.
Years abroad
Ljung joined in the summer of 1989 in Switzerland, and signed a contract with BSC Young Boys. His compatriot Tord Grip, who oversaw the Swiss club had piloted the midfielder to the Bernese club. After this had been replaced by Pál Csernai, he left the club after just one season. In the summer of 1990 was a member of the squad for the Swedish selection for the World Cup finals in Italy. Only in the 1-2 defeat against Brazil at the start he was on the field, the two defeats against Costa Rica and Scotland, he watched from the bench.
Ljung moved within Switzerland for FC Zurich, who had risen in the National League A. On the side of Beat Studer, Augustine Makalakalane, Christoph Gilli and Vincent Fournier he was one of the key players of the club, which had to play in the regular season with the club in the promotion and relegation round after just three wins this season. There succeeded with seven wins without a defeat as a table first to avoid relegation. Nevertheless, he moved on to a season and left after two years, Switzerland.
Ljung moved to the neighboring Alps Republic of Austria and joined in the summer of 1991, the FC Admira Wacker at. With coach Sigfried Held, he moved to the side of Dietmar Kühbauer, Olaf Marschall, Wolfgang Pops and Peter Artner in a final of the OFB Cup against FK Austria Wien. With a goal by Valdas Ivanauskas shortly before the final whistle, he had to deal with the club to the master after a 0-1 defeat to admit defeat, who thus won the Double. Before he took up with the club in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1992/93, he took part with the national team at the European Championships in 1992. He knew the country selection to surprise and pulled to the side of Tomas Brolin, Anders Limpar and Joachim Björklund semi-finals. There he celebrated his tournament debut, as he gave the yellow - locked Patrik Andersson represented in the game against Germany. However, he could not prevent the 2:3 defeat against eventual European vice-champion.
In the Austrian Championship 1992/93 Ljung reached third place in the table with his club. However, highlight of the season was the duel against the Belgian representative of Royal Antwerp FC in the second round of the European Cup. With the burden of a 2:4 home defeat in the first leg of the Austrian club traveled to Antwerp and was already at the break 0-2 back. In a sensational second-half away still get four goals so that the team forced a renewal. There she conceded nor the 3:4 and different despite self-sacrificing struggle out of the competition.
Ljung had also made a name outside the German-speaking world. In the summer of 1993 he moved to Turkish club Galatasaray. When reigning national champion he made on the side of Hakan Şükür, Falko Goetz, Bülent Korkmaz, Reinhard Stumpf and Uğur Tütüneker for the successful title defense. Following the season, he took part in his third tournament with the national team. As a regular player, he ran in all seven games of the Regional Selection of the tournament. In the 2-2 draw to kick against the Cameroon national team, he scored the hit on the intermediate 1-0 the first goal for Northern Europeans. After reaching the third place to the end of the tournament, he was awarded with the national team with the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal -.
Shortly before the start of the tournament MSV Duisburg had surprisingly announced the commitment Ljungs. In the Bundesliga, he found himself, however, hardly cope. On the side of Stefan Boeger, Joachim Hopp, Peter Közle, Rainer Schütterle and Oliver Westerbeek he came only to season 13 inserts. At the end of the season he joined the club from the second division in.
After the End of career
After six years abroad returned to Sweden Ljung. Although it existed some offers to continue his career in the Allsvenskan, he ended his active career. Initially, he worked with the Italian players consultant Vincenzo Morabito, before he founded his own casting agency under the name of Roger Ljung Promotion AB in Landskrona.