Stefan Lundin
Stefan Bertil Lundin ( born May 7, 1955 in Korskrogen, Hälsingland ) is a former Swedish football player and coach. The striker had an injury end his career early and was when he took office in 1982 Gefle IF the youngest coach in the history of the Allsvenskan. Meanwhile, he has worked as a sports official.
Career
Playing career
Lundin moved as a child with his family to Gävle. There he began at the local club Brynäs IF with the ice hockey and soccer games. As a 14 - year-old he finished his hockey ambitions and focused on football. After the football team his club had risen in the Allsvenskan, he came as a young player in the game period 1974 to seven Erstligaeinsätzen, but increased with the club at the end of the season in the second division from.
Prior to the first league season 1976, the first division side AIK committed with Lars- Oscar Nilsson a new coach. The previously active during Svenska Fotbollförbundet in the youth field supervisors had observed Lundin, who hired the young players for the club in the Stockholm suburb of Solna. In a league game in May against Landskrona BoIS he retired to an injury that later turned out to be a crack in the foot. However, ten days later he was in the cup final against the same club in the starting eleven, but had to be replaced at half-time due to the pain. After a 3-0 victory he celebrated the Cup victory.
After one season left Lundin AIK and moved on to league rivals Örebro SK, as he had begun to study at Örebro University in 1977. In addition to his training as Sozionom he came, however, due to an injury in the team around players like Thomas Nordahl, Ola Rydstrand and Ronald Åhman hardly used. At the end of the season 1978, the team grew in spite of a trainer by Benny Lennartsson to Orvar Bergmark as a table next to last in the second division from.
First Lundin ended his career and returned to training received back to Gävle. There he joined in 1980 the second division Gefle IF on, now the football department of his old clubs Brynäs IF had joined. A year later, he ended his active career.
Coaching career
Lundin took over before the second division season in 1982 as coach at his last game station Gefle IF. With the team he reached the play-offs for the Allsvenskan. After two victories over Kalmar FF, the club returned to nearly fifty -year break back in the makings. After he had done with the team in the first league season in 1983 thanks to the better goal against the same number of points Mjallby AIF Mitaufsteiger the league, promoted him to the league rival Halmstad BK from the successor of the low- artist Jan Mak. Although he reached with the club only mean positions in the Allsvenskan, but the Portuguese club CS Marítimo interested in his services.
In the summer of 1986 left Lundin as previously his compatriots Sven-Goran Eriksson and Gunder Bengtsson Sweden towards Portugal. However, in Funchal he stayed only one season in which he finished in twelfth place in the Primeira Divisão with the club CS Marítimo. First, he remained active abroad and in 1988 the Norwegian club Moss FK. With the last year's champion, he reached the fourth place in the table and then returned to Sweden.
Lundin started training at second division BK Hacken. According to a seventh place in the first year of operation, he led the team to the Cup Final and the first place in the Südstaffel the second division. The Cup final ended with a 0-3 defeat against Djurgårdens IF and in the rise playing for Allsvenskan failed the club after a 1-0 home win by a 1:4 defeat at GIF Sundsvall. In the following year he reached with the team the promotion round, this time it failed against Helsingborgs IF after a 2-2 draw - and a 1-1 draw on the away goals rule. Lundin then left the club and returned to Gefle IF back, who raced well in the second division. First he reached with the team front seats, without being able to intervene in the promotion race. 1995 succeeded behind Umeå FC the runner-up in the North Season which entitled to participate in the relegation. Again failed Lundin, this time by two defeats against Östers IF. After another season in the seventh place was busy, he finished his coach Engagement and changed as sporting director in the management of the club.
For the 1999 Lundin returned to the dugout when he was obliged by IFK Gothenburg as an assistant coach of Reine Almqvist. After this was released in the course of the season due to disappointing results, he moved up to the head coach of the traditional club. The season could be finished as a table of eight and in the following two years, he led the team each to fourth place in the standings. After a good start to the season in the 2002 IFK lost once the connection to the table top and after leaving against the Moldovan club Zimbru Chisinau in the qualification round for the UEFA Cup 2002/ 03, the club's management decided to dismiss Lundin.
Lundin hired for the season 2003 as the successor of Mats Jingblad at Örebro SK. Although he reached with the team twice in eighth place in the table, but at the end of his second season was its license for the club due to economic problems. He then left the club and returned to the dugout at the Gothenburg club BK Hacken. He piloted the league newcomer to eighth place in the standings before the club was again in the following season in a relegation battle. The end of September, the club's management dismissed him from his contract and replaced him with his former boss Almqvist.
Then Lundin accepted an offer of the Swedish Association of to cover the post of Riksinstruktör with competence area in West Sweden, and took over parallel the post of chairman of the Swedish coaches association. In summer 2008, he became sports director at Svensk Elitfotboll, the association of 32 first-and second division.