Lars Lagerbäck
Lars Lagerbäck in 2014
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lars Edvin Lagerbäck | ||
| Date of birth | 16 July 1948 | ||
| Place of birth | Katrineholm, Sweden | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1960–1969 | Alby FF | ||
| 1970–1974 | Gimonäs CK | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1977–1982 | Kilafors IF | ||
| 1983–1985 | Arbrå BK | ||
| 1987–1989 | Hudiksvalls ABK | ||
| 1990–1995 | Sweden U21 | ||
| 1996–1997 | Sweden B | ||
| 1998–1999 | Sweden (assistant) | ||
| 2000–2009 | Sweden | ||
| 2010 | Nigeria | ||
| 2011–2016 | Iceland | ||
| 2017– | Norway | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Lars Edvin "Lasse" Lagerbäck (pronounced [ˈlɑːʂ ˈlɑːgɛrˈbɛk]; born 16 July 1948 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish football manager and former player, and the current manager of the Norwegian national football team.
He is best known as the former manager of the Swedish national team. He managed the Swedish national team from 1998 until 2009, leading Sweden in five consecutive championships. He resigned as manager in 2009 after Sweden's failure to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Apart from his coaching duties, Lagerbäck has in recent years been a pundit on Premier League and UEFA Champions League broadcasting on Swedish television.
Raised in Ovansjö, Medelpad, in his youth, Lagerbäck played for Alby FF. When he was 13 years old, he began playing for their P16 team.
After completing his upper secondary school studies at the end of the 1960s, Lagerbäck studied political science and economics at Umeå University in northern Sweden. On the side of his studies, he also played football for Gimonäs CK under the guidance of Calle Lindelöf. He continued to play there until 1974 and worked as a club clerk from 1970. Over the course of the following years, he played twice for the club in the qualifying rounds to division two in the Swedish League without success. Lagerbäck himself played midfielder, but was often an unused substitute.
In 1974, he attended Gymnastik- och Idrottshögskolan (GIH), where he was a classmate of current assistant coach Roland Andersson.
In 1977, he was called up to the senior team. It was former teammate Kjell Pettersson that recommended him to Kilafors. He coached the Division IV team until 1982. In 1983, he moved to Arbrå IK until 1985. In 1987, he took over Hudiksvall ABK but left in 1989.
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