Tommy Söderberg

Tommy Söderberg ( born August 19, 1948 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish football coach. He is best known as a longtime supervisor of the Swedish national team, with which he participated in several international tournaments.

Career

As a football player Söderberg acted solely in the amateur field. He ran for the clubs Ängby IF and Continental.

In the 1970s, he began his coaching career. In his starting years, however, he came even to trainer jobs in low Swedish leagues. After his first station BK Västergötland, he took several years training in the youth field of the IF Brommapojkarna. From 1980 he supervised Spånga IS, before he returned in 1982 as chief responsibility for coach of the men's team to IF Brommapojkarna. His breakthrough as a coach, he experienced the Stockholm club Djurgårdens IF, which he took over in 1986 in the second division and two years later, in the first Swedish league. In 1991, he became coach of AIK, and a year later he led the team from Solna to the title.

Since 1993, Soderberg is now working for the Swedish Football Association, first with as manager of a junior. As a coach Tommy Svensson 1998 resigned from his post, Söderberg took over the main responsibility the senior team and qualified for EURO 2000.

Decided in 1999, the Swedish Association that two coaches should primarily responsible lead the national team. So his former assistant Lars Lagerback was equal coach. Soderberg and Lagerback led the team to the Euro 2000 and 2002 World Cup and the European Championship in 2004. During the 2002 World Cup and Euro 2004, was the team to the quarter- finals. After the 2004 European Championship, leaving Söderberg his colleagues Lagerback 's exclusive responsibility.

Söderberg took over in early 2005, the U- 21 team from his predecessor Torbjörn Nilsson. A short time later Jörgen Lennartsson he was placed on the side, with which it forms a coaching duo. With the junior national team he reached as group winners play- off matches to qualify for the U-21 European Championship in 2007, but failed there in the Serbian U-21 national team. As a result, he prepared the team before the U- 21 European Championship 2009 finals in their own country, for which they qualified automatically as hosts and in which the team failed in the semi-finals on penalties to England. Just before the tournament, the association announced the renewal of the contracts of coach duo until 2011.