Stefan Alvén

Stefan Alven ( born December 12, 1968) is a Swedish former football player. The defender and midfielder, who spent his entire playing career in his home country, worked by end of his career as a sports official.

Career

Alven began playing football at Asmundstorps IF. In 1986 he moved to his early second division club Landskrona BoIS. In the following years he placed with the team in the mid- table portion of the league before they slipped at the beginning of the 1990s in the relegation battle. In 1991 he left the club and joined Malmö FF in Allsvenskan. Here he was at first team regular and walked to the however being able to intervene in the title race with the team in each of the championship finals of the seasons 1991 and 1992, without Since by Jonnie Fedel, Patrik Andersson, Niclas Nylén and Dan Corneliusson. Under coach Rolf Zetterlund, who took over as coach Viggo Jensen before the start of the season in 1994, he moved into second place. Therefore, after four seasons with the club from Scania, he moved to Stockholm and joined the local first division club Djurgårdens IF. With the supervised Up Grönhagen by Anders he held on to the side of Kaj Eskelinen, Magnus Pehrsson, Markus Karlsson and Fredrik Dahlström in its debut season in the middle of the league in the 1996 followed the crash in the second division. Alven remained loyal to the club in the second division and returned with him at the end of the second division season in 1998 in the first division back. In 24 of the 26 first division matches of the 1999 alongside Lucas Nilsson, Michael Borgqvist, Sharbel Touma and Niclas Rasck on the field, the defensive players could not prevent the re- direct descent. However, he remained in the Allsvenskan and early 2000 joined the IFK Norrköping. The second season for his new club, he finished with the team led by Mathias Florén, Jonas Wallerstedt, Kristian Bergström and Eddie Gustafsson as third from bottom of the Allsvenskan and had to play in the relegation games against Mjallby AIF. With a goal difference of 4:3 in return IFK Norrköping managed to avoid relegation. Then he ended his active career.

In February 2005, the General Assembly chose Djurgårdens IF Alven, who had studied law during his time in Stockholm, as a member for legal issues to the Board. In November 2009, the Association changed its structures, in this context, promoted him to the club sporting director, who is responsible for the sporting management. To strengthen the competition team, he eventually moved on to the introduced in November, to date, not occupied the post of Manager in May of the following year. After threats against his person and his family, he joined in early May 2011 from his post.