Jan Eriksson (footballer, born 1967)
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Jan Jonas Jakob Eriksson | ||
Date of birth | 24 August 1967 | ||
Place of birth | Sundsvall, Sweden | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Youth career | |||
1974–1980 | GIF Sundsvall | ||
1980–1986 | IFK Sundsvall | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1985–1986 | IFK Sundsvall | 44 | (2) |
1987–1990 | AIK | 73 | (2) |
1991–1992 | IFK Norrköping | 39 | (3) |
1992–1994 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 37 | (4) |
1994–1995 | AIK | 7 | (0) |
1995–1996 | Servette FC | 6 | (0) |
1996 | Helsingborgs IF | 28 | (3) |
1997–1998 | Sunderland | 1 | (0) |
1998–1999 | Tampa Bay Mutiny | 35 | (2) |
Total | 270 | (16) | |
International career | |||
1990–1994 | Sweden[1] | 35 | (4) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Jan Jonas Jakob Eriksson (born 24 August 1967 in Sundsvall) is a former footballer from Sweden. He played 35 matches and scored four goals for the national team. Two of those goals came at the Euro 1992. He was selected for the 1990 FIFA World Cup squad, but did not play. Eriksson was also selected for the Swedish 1994 FIFA World Cup squad but had to leave the team just before the start of the tournament because of an injury. He was replaced by Teddy Lucic.
Eriksson joined English side Sunderland in January 1997, but went on to make only one appearance for the club in a 1-0 defeat at Aston Villa in February 1997.[2] He left the club in May 1998 having made no further appearances.
He was awarded Guldbollen in 1992. Eriksson's father Jan-Åke Eriksson and younger brother Patrik Eriksson-Ohlsson are also footballers.
References
- ^ "Sweden national football team stats". passagen.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 6 June 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
- ^ "Savo the Saviour". Independent. 1 February 1997. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
External links
- Jan Eriksson at fussballdaten.de (in German)
- Jan Eriksson at WorldFootball.net
- Living people
- 1967 births
- Expatriate footballers in England
- Expatriate footballers in Germany
- Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
- Expatriate soccer players in the United States
- Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
- Swedish expatriate sportspeople in the United Kingdom
- Swedish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- AIK Fotboll players
- IFK Norrköping players
- 1. FC Kaiserslautern players
- Servette FC players
- Sunderland A.F.C. players
- Helsingborgs IF players
- Tampa Bay Mutiny players
- 1990 FIFA World Cup players
- Allsvenskan players
- Premier League players
- Bundesliga players
- Sweden international footballers
- Swedish expatriate footballers
- Swedish footballers
- UEFA Euro 1992 players
- People from Sundsvall
- Major League Soccer players
- Major League Soccer All-Stars
- Association football defenders