Thomas Sjöberg

Thomas Sjöberg ( born July 6, 1952 in Helsingborg ) is a former Swedish football player. The midfielder, who made his debut in the Swedish national team in 1974, winning three times the Swedish national champion with the Malmö FF. He now works as a coach.

Career

Sjöberg began playing football at Eskilsminne IF. For the club he ran in the fourth division Division 4 Skåne Nordvästra until he made at the end of the season in 1973 as a winner before the season equal on points Råå IF promotion to the third division. He fell on several higher-class clubs and received offers from Helsingborgs IF, IFK Malmö and Malmö FF.

Sjöberg decided in early 1974 to change to Malmö FF, where he at first belonged to the permanent staff under new coach Bob Houghton committed. He quickly played himself also to NotePad the national coach Georg Ericson and came just under half a year after he had played in the fourth division to his international debut. On August 8, the year he was in a 2-1 win over the Norwegian national team with goals of his team -mates at MFF Staffan Tapper and A Fredriksson GAIS in the starting lineup.

At the end of his debut season, the season 1974, Sjöberg won on the side of players like Roy Andersson, Krister Kristensson Jan Möller and Roland Andersson with nine points ahead of runner- AIK superior to the von Rosen's Cup for the Swedish champion title after winning the Svenska Cupen after a 2-0 final victory over Östers IF in the summer meant the Double - profit. The following year, the title defense succeeded in both competitions in the league Östers IF was distanced by five points and defeated in the cup final Djurgårdens IF.

Through his appearances in UEFA club competition and as a regular player of the national team Sjöberg made ​​a name outside Sweden. At the end of the season in 1976, which he finished with his team as league runners behind the initial master Halmstad BK, he left his homeland. New Club of Sweden was the Karlsruher SC, who played his time in the Bundesliga. However, at the beginning of the second half of the season 76/77 he was only six stakes, as he could not prevail under coach Carl -Heinz Rühl. Therefore he returned after only four months to Malmö FF and won with the team 's third championship.

In the summer of 1978, Sjöberg belonged to the national squad for the World Cup tournament in Argentina in 1978. In the opening game of the Swedish team in the 1-1 draw against Brazil he managed the only goal of the tournament the country selection, prematurely withdrew from the tournament after losing to Austria and Spain. Following the final round, he left again his homeland and moved to Al -Ittihad in Saudi Arabia. After half a year he moved to the Chicago Sting in the North American Soccer League, where he ran aground three months.

For season 1979 Sjöberg returned to Sweden to Malmö FF. In 1981, he finished after 45 international matches, where he had succeeded 14 goals, his international career. A year later he left Malmö FF and hired the unterklassig gambling club Helsingborgs IF, for which he ran aground until 1985. His active career, he finished at Lunds BK, where the team was supervised by his former teammate Roland Andersson.

After his career end Sjöberg joined as assistant coach Roland Andersson to the dugout. This he accompanied with his involvement with Al -Ittihad, the Qatar Sports Club, BSC Young Boys and Malmö FF. After Andersson was moved up to assistant coach Lars Lagerback at the national, Sjöberg came to the role of a game observer. 2006 parted ways, as Sjöberg returned as a youth coach to Malmö FF.