Henrik Larsson
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Larsson in 2014 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Edward Henrik Larsson | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 20 September 1971 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Helsingborg, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1977–1988 | Högaborgs BK | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1989–1991 | Högaborgs BK | 64 | (23) | ||||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Helsingborgs IF | 56 | (51) | ||||||||||||||
| 1993–1997 | Feyenoord | 101 | (26) | ||||||||||||||
| 1997–2004 | Celtic | 221 | (174) | ||||||||||||||
| 2004–2006 | Barcelona | 40 | (13) | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2009 | Helsingborgs IF | 84 | (38) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007 | → Manchester United (loan) | 7 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Råå IF | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Högaborgs BK | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 575 | (325) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Sweden U21 | 12[2] | (4[2]) | ||||||||||||||
| 1997 | Sweden B | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1993–2009 | Sweden | 106 | (37) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2012 | Landskrona BoIS | ||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Falkenbergs FF | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Helsingborgs IF | ||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Helsingborgs IF | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Edward Henrik Larsson (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈhɛnːrɪk ˈlɑːʂɔn]; born 20 September 1971) is a Swedish professional football coach and former player who played many times for the Swedish national team. A striker, Larsson began his career with Högaborgs BK. In 1992, he moved to Helsingborg IF where in his first campaign he helped the club win promotion to Allsvenskan after 24 seasons. He moved to Feyenoord in November 1993, staying for four years before leaving in 1997 to join Scottish Premiership club Celtic and enjoying great success there. During his time in the Dutch Eredivisie, he won two KNVB Cups with Feyenoord. He later played for Barcelona, earning the Spanish title twice and the Champions League before returning to Helsingborg. He ended his career with a loan spell at Manchester United, with whom he won the English Premier League in 2006–07. [3]
Larsson is often regarded as one of the greatest foreign imports in Scottish football,[4] having been signed by Wim Jansen for Celtic in July 1997 for a fee of £650,000. In his first season at the club, he played a crucial role in Celtic winning their first league title in ten years. Larsson suffered a broken leg in a UEFA Cup tie against Lyon in 1999. He returned to score 53 goals in a 2000–01 season that saw him win the European Golden Shoe. Larsson won four league titles in his seven years at Celtic. He also helped the team reach the 2003 UEFA Cup final against Porto, scoring both goals in a 3–2 defeat in extra time. His 242 goals in 313 matches saw Celtic fans nickname him The King of Kings.
Larsson played for Sweden in three FIFA World Cups and three UEFA European Championships, winning a bronze medal at the 1994 FIFA World Cup, and is a former captain of the national team. He ended his international career with 37 goals in 106 matches. He also won the Golden Ball (Guldbollen), the annual Award for best Swedish footballer twice, first in 1998 and again in 2004, while in 2003 he was named the Greatest Swedish Footballer of the Last 50 Years as part of the UEFA Jubilee Awards. He is also the second all-time leading goalscorer in the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League.[5]
In 2010, Larsson began his career as a manager at the Superettan club Landskrona BoIS, where he stayed for three seasons. He later managed Falkenberg in Allsvenskan, and he took over at Helsingborg in 2015, where his son, Jordan, was one of his players. Helsingborg were relegated to Superettan in 2016 and Larsson left the club. Three years later he made a brief return in the same role at the club.[6] He served Barcelona as assistant to Ronald Koeman from August 2020 until October 2021.
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PremProfilewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b "Henrik Larsson – Spelarstatistik". Swedish Football Association (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- ^ "Celtic legend Larsson to retire from football". STV Sport. 20 October 2009. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2009.
- ^ "10 Greatest Foreign Imports to Play in the SPL". Bleacher Report. Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
- ^ "UEFA Europa League all-time top scorers". UEFA. 1 July 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
- ^ "För stort tryck mot honom och familjen". Kvällsposten (in Swedish). 23 August 2019. Archived from the original on 23 August 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2019.