Ulf Ottosson
Ulf Ottosson ( born July 2, 1968) is a Swedish former football player. The striker played in Sweden, Portugal, England, Italy and Switzerland. With 205 goals he is the best scorer in the club's history of Degerfors IF, earning him the nickname " Mål -Otto" earned ( Tor Otto ).
Career
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Ottosson debuted in 1987 for Degerfors IF in the second class Division 1, but increased with the team at the end of the season in the third division from. In the Folga he became a regular goalscorer and returned to the club in late 1990 to the second division back. As table fourth in the Spring Cup in 1991, he qualified him for the autumn series that succeeded the relay victory. In the subsequent relegation matches to Degerfors IF began after a 1:3 away defeat with a 2-0 home win on away goals against Djurgårdens IF by - Ottosson was successful once each in both games. As a scorer, he had also made a name outside the country and changed the connection on loan to Swiss club FC Locarno in the National League B.
In early 1993, Ottosson returned back to Sweden to Degerfors IF back and walked to the team in the Allsvenskan. Behind Milenko Vukcevic he was in the season of 1993 with seven goals this season second best scorer and internal club reached with the team to Ivan Djuric, Henrik Berger, Daniel Tjernström and Sebastian Henriksson after wins over IFK Hässleholm in the relegation matches in the league. They also moved into the final of the National Cup. In Gothenburg Landskrona BoIS was defeated by a 3-0 final. In the summer it Lars Zetterlund broke in a hard-fought derby against Örebro SK 's leg, so that he was sitting in the first round against AC Parma, the club failed after two defeats, only in the stands at the Europa Cup Winners' Cup 1993/94. In the following years he helped the club to the establishment in the middle of the Allsvenskan, where he had to contend with especially Vuksević and in 1994 undertook Andreas Andersson for a place in the forward line.
Years of travel
After Ottosson had shined in the season in 1995 as a nine- time scorer, the southern European club GD Chaves caught up with him after the season into its ranks. Shortly after the beginning of the season 1996/97 he left the Portuguese first division again, however, and returned to Sweden. New club was the IFK Norrköping, where he ran aground on the side of Robert Steiner, Magnus Gustafsson, Klebér Saarenpää and Sulo Vaattovaara to the end of the season in seven league games.
In January 1997, Ottosson changed again the club. The English club Norwich City secured his services on loan. In his debut for the reserve team on 15 January he scored twice, was thus three days later in the squad in the second-class First Division antretenden competition team and made his debut as a substitute for John Polston just before the final against Grimsby Town. By the summer, he played a total of eight league games for the " canaries " and scored a goal. This, however, he could not convince coach Mike Walker and was in the spring of a contractual offer.
Again Ottosson returned to his homeland and joined in April before the Allsvenskan season 1997 the Swedish first division club Panos Ljungskile on. In the summer, he moved again to the club and went to his home club Degerfors IF. At the end of the season, the two clubs occupied the two relegation places. In the second division he ran on to the end of the 1999 for DIF. Due to the introduction of the single-track Superettan as second feature class existed in the North Season six relegated, this included Degerfors IF. Ottosson, therefore, left the club in the direction of Italy. He hired in November 1999 at Viterbo in Calcio in Serie C1 to third-rate, but remained only until the end of the year.
Return to Sweden and start in the coaching career
In early 2000 returned Ottosson back to Sweden and ran into the sequence for Degerfors IF in the third-tier Division 1 on. He regularly reached with the crew seats in the front third of the table. In early 2003 he won with the team the title of the Swedish Hall Master, to which he contributed two goals. In the subsequent third league season it was enough for the runner-up, but season winner IK Brage had eight points clear at the end of the season. In the season 2004, the club struggled with IFK Ölme until the final day of the season victory, which was achieved on goal difference compared to the same number of points competitors. In the subsequent promotion round, the team was able to beat Umeå FC and rose to the Superettan.
However Ottosson left Degerfors IF and joined as player-coach the fifth-tier Gullspångs IF on. With the team, he missed the league and moved within the league to Strömtorps IK on. In the season of 2006 he went as a player on in the fourth division and took over in the subsequent season as coach. Having failed to the success of the club parted in the autumn of him. After a hiatus of several years from football, he took the end of 2010 as coach at the seventh division Ängebäck BK.