Tom Prahl

Tom Prahl ( born January 5, 1949 in Smedstorp, Tomelilla ) is a Swedish former football coach. After a brief career as a player in unterklassigen area he established himself as a coach and won three times Swedish champion.

Career

Short playing career and start in the coaching career

Prahl played as a teenager when Onslunda IF, for whom he made ​​his debut in the first team at the age of 15 years. The beginning of 1968 he moved to Tomelilla IF in the third league. With the goal of full-time to become physical education teacher, he applied at the gym -och idrottshögskolan, but missed the recording just above threshold. Therefore, he went to Cologne to be trained for three years in Germany. As a 23- year-old he returned after successful completion back to Sweden and ended his playing career to take over as coach at his hometown club Onslunda IF. The fifth-tier he oversaw until 1975, when he perceived an offer of third division club IFK Trelleborg. However, after the 1976 season, he returned to Onslunda IF and was again responsible for two seasons for the team of his tribe clubs.

Prior to the 1979 season Prahl again took perceive an offer from the third highest Swedish league. The IFK Kristianstad he introduced in his first season to season victory in Division 3 Sydvästra Götaland. In the subsequent promotion round he remained with the team against Karlskrona AIF, Råå IF and IFK Uddevalla without defeat and thus led them to the second division. In the Swedish House of Commons, he fought with the club against straight back down, but in the end the club took on goal difference compared to the same number of points competitors IK Sleipner relegation and got together with Kalmar AIK and Nyköpings BIS again. After the re-emergence was missed apparent than in seventh, the paths of coaches and club parted.

Prahl took over the league rivals Kirsebergs IF Malmö. After it had in 1983 been missing in his second year with the club as a runner-up behind Lunds BK three points for re- entry into the rise of games, the club dominated two years later with four points ahead of his former coach station IFK Trelleborg the league. After a 1-0 first-leg win in the away game at Karlstad BK he lost with the team the second leg with a 1-2 home defeat and thus missed out on the away goals rule his second ascent. After he had successfully kept the team through a reform in the league 's third- highest division in the following year, he led the team at the end of the decade, again in the top group of their third league season.

Climb to the top coach and three championships

For season 1990 Prahl signed a contract for the second division Trelleborg FF. In his first season, still in fourth, he finished the spring series of the second division to the first place in the standings and therefore took part with the team at the Kvalsvenskan the premiership season 1991. With only one defeat in 14 games, the club qualified as runners- behind Östers IF for the premiership season 1992. Trelleborg FF in the Allsvenskan experienced in the period following the hitherto most successful period of the club's history. The team at Lily Mats Berg, Leif Engqvist Jan Möller and Anders Palmér he led in third place in the championship final, where they narrowly missed a place in the UEFA Cup. While mountain lilies in the following season crowned together with Henrik Bertilsson from Halmstad BK to the top scorer in the Allsvenskan, the club reached the European Cup as a table in fourth. In the UEFA Cup in 1994/95 he made headlines with the team. After GÍ Gøta had been beaten with two wins in the first round, met the team in the first round on the English representative Blackburn Rovers. In the first leg Fredrik Sandell scored the only goal in a 1-0 away win at Ewood Park against coached by Kenny Dalglish team around players like Graeme Le Saux, Tim Sherwood, Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. In the second leg, however, struck the great hour of Joachim Karlsson, who led the team twice a guidance of English clubs tying and thanks to a 2-2 away draw against the English champions at season's end to the next round. Even against Lazio Rome was Prahls team in the second round before a sensation, after a 0-0 draw in the first leg scored Alen Bokšić only in injury time of the second leg with his goal to make it 1-0 final score the decisive goal in favor of the Italians.

In the league season in 1994 remained for Prahls team, however, the success of, she took to the end of the season as a table tenth the last non- relegation zone. In the following season they did not continued the successful years after the re-emergence and finished the season again as a table tenth. He then completed his commitment to the club and went to league rivals Halmstad BK, where he inherited the IFK Göteborg migrated to Mats Jingblad. After the club had to cope with the disposals of the service providers Niclas Alexandersson and Niklas Gudmundsson, Prahl achieved seventh place in the table with the team to Torbjörn Arvidsson, Fredrik Ljungberg, Peter Vougt and Håkan Svensson.

In his second season at HBK, of the 1997, Prahl led the club to the third league title in club history. In particular, due to the strength at home - twelve victories interval in 13 games in Örjans - distanced the order Mats Lily Mountain and Artim Sakiri strengthened team the series champions IFK Göteborg by three points and Team Captain Tommy Andersson was in his last game for the club, the Von- Rosen's Cup reach up into the air. In the following seasons was the team 's leading the league and qualified for the UEFA Cup each. In the season 2000, the club dominated with six wins in their first seven games of the season opener and quickly sat firmly in the top spot. After a subsequent period of weakness the team around Stefan Selakovic, Petter Hansson, Håkan Svensson, Mikael Gustavsson, Jeffrey Aubynn and Henrik Bertilsson returned again in the fall to the table top back and earned until the end of season six points ahead of runner-up Helsingborgs IF. The following season ended on a disappointing seventh place, accompanied by the failure in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League 2001 /02 against RSC Anderlecht, and then a 1:6 away defeat against Sporting Lisbon in the second round of the UEFA Cup in 2001/ 02. In the summer Prahl had already announced his retirement at end of season to hire the league rivals Malmö FF.

Prahl replaced at MFF Michael Andersson, who had fallen out despite sporting successes with the Board. In his first season with the new club with which Peter Ijeh excelled as the first non - European top scorer in the Allsvenskan, he reached the qualifying for the European Cup as runner-up behind Djurgårdens IF. Put the team in the following season with Niklas Skoog scorer, it was not enough to win the title again. In the season of 2004, a duel with Prahls vormaliger Trainer Station Halmstad BK developed for the championship title. The Malmö team around Andreas Yngvesson, Jon Inge Høiland, Afonso Alves, Daniel Majstorovic and Louay Chanko finally sat down with a two point lead by Prahl and picked for the third time as a coach the championship. In October of that year he extended his contract by one year with an option for another season.

Unsuccessful in Norway and return to Sweden

After a fifth place in the 2005 Prahl accepted an offer from Norway and joined Viking Stavanger, where he signed a two -year contract. In the Tippeligaen him, the success was denied and he played with the team against relegation from the Norwegian Elite Series. In late summer it therefore dismissed the club out of his contract and replaced him with Tom Nordlie.

After Prahl was half a year without employment, he returned in the fall of 2007 to Trelleborg FF back. The relegation candidates, he established in the following years at the rear of the Allsvenskan. In March 2010, the association his contract extended until early 2013. During the season of 2011, he was with the team in the relegation battle, as Tabellenvorletzte they missed the league. Shortly after the season ended Prahl then his involvement with the club and thus his coaching career.

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