Stefan Schwarz
Stefan Schwarz in September 2011
Hans Jürgen Stefan Schwarz ( born April 18, 1969 in Malmö) is a former Swedish football player. The defensive player whose German father emigrated in the 1960s to Sweden, participated with the Swedish national team in two World Cups and one European Championship and was in the 1990s, a key player in the Swedish national team.
Career
Playing career
Black began as a 5-year playing football and came to many years of experience as a young kicker at Malmö FF club Kulladals 1983 as 13 - year-old in the youth squad of Malmö FF. From 1985 to 1987 he was a junior player at the German club Bayer 04 Leverkusen, with whom he 1985/86 won the A- youth championship. Then he went back to Malmö FF.
Under the direction of coach Roy Hodgson he developed in Allsvenskan on the side of players like Jonas Thern, Roger Ljung and Martin Dahlin to support the club and won with the team in 1988 the Swedish championship title and a year later the Svenska Cupen. As a result, he became a national player and came in a 2-1 victory over the national team of the United Arab Emirates on 14 February 1990 on his debut when he came on in the 82nd minute for Pontus Kåmark and a short time later with the winning goal the game decided in favor of his team. Then he was at the World Cup finals in 1990 to the Swedish squad. He came in all three games for use and was eliminated with the state selection after three defeats in the group stage behind Brazil, Costa Rica and Scotland from. Following the tournament, the German record champions FC Bayern Munich announced interest in signing, but ultimately saw it, since Black does not want to give up his Swedish citizenship in favor of a German passport.
After the tournament, Black therefore moved to Portugal to trained by his compatriot Sven -Goran Eriksson traditional club Benfica. At the end of his first season in southern Europe he won the Portuguese league title with the club. In addition, he continued to hold in the country selection and took her to the European Championship finals in 1992 partly in his home country. As a regular player, he played in all three games in the group stage, but missed the semi-final against the German national team, after he had seen his second yellow card in the final group game against England and was locked. In the season following the tournament he won the Portuguese Cup in another title before 1994 again the national champion title was won.
During the World Cup finals in 1994 Black was able to convince again. As a regular player, he moved to the country selection to the quarter- final against the Romanian national team, but was sent off in the 101st minute game with a second yellow card of the field. Thus he could of the team in the semifinals, which was lost to Brazil, do not help and only came in a 4-0 victory over Bulgaria in the " small final " for his sixth game in the tournament.
Black decided after the tournament to move to the Premier League. New employer was Arsenal who referred approximately 1.8 million pounds for the defensive player to Portugal. However, he had only one season in England and then moved on to Fiorentina. With the club, he won the Italian Cup in 1996 and after a 2-1 win over champions Inter Milan by two goals from Gabriel Batistuta, the Supercoppa Italiana.
In 1998, Black in the Primera División to FC Valencia, before he returned after a season in England. He was awarded the Guldbollen as Sweden's Footballer of the Year in 1999. Until 2003, he played for Sunderland AFC on the island, to then end his active career.
After the active time
Since his boots Black operates the player switching Stefan Schwarz Pro Sports Sweden AB in Malmö. Black now lives with his Portuguese wife and three children in Cascais, near Lisbon.
After the dismissal of Per- Ola Ljung as assistant coach at reigning triple winner Helsingborgs IF Black followed in early June 2012 as the new assistant by Conny Karlsson. When he resigned from his post and then due to the already tense relationship with the sporting line, he later received the Norwegian Åge Hareide one weeks a new boss.
Achievements
- World Cup Participation: 1990, 1994 World Cup bronze: 1994
- European Championships: 1992 Semi-final: 1992
- Swedish Champion: 1988
- Swedish Cup winner: 1989
- Portuguese champions: 1991 and 1994
- Portuguese Cup: 1993
- Italian Cup Winners' Cup: 1996
- Italian Supercup winner: 1996
- Swedish Player of the Year: 1999