Anders Limpar
Limpar in 2011
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Anders Erik Limpar | ||
| Date of birth | 24 September 1965 | ||
| Place of birth | Solna, Sweden | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Sollentuna Fotbollsklubb (Assistant coach) |
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| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1981–1986 | IF Brommapojkarna | 77 | (20) |
| 1986–1988 | Örgryte | 47 | (9) |
| 1988–1989 | Young Boys | 27 | (7) |
| 1989–1990 | Cremonese | 24 | (3) |
| 1990–1994 | Arsenal | 96 | (17) |
| 1994–1997 | Everton | 66 | (5) |
| 1997 | Birmingham City | 4 | (0) |
| 1998–1999 | AIK | 22 | (2) |
| 1999–2000 | Colorado Rapids | 36 | (3) |
| 2000 | Djurgårdens IF | 0 | (0) |
| 2001–2002 | IF Brommapojkarna | ||
| 2008 | Sollentuna United | 0 | (0) |
| Total | 399 | (66) | |
| National team | |||
| 1987–1996 | Sweden | 58 | (6) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2008– | Sollentuna United (Reserve Team) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Anders Erik Limpar (born 24 September 1965 in Solna) is a Swedish former professional footballer and assistant coach of Sollentuna Fotbollsklubb.
As a player he was a winger from 1981 until 2000. He has played for clubs in Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, England, and the United States, appearing for IF Brommapojkarna, Young Boys, Cremonese, Arsenal, Everton, Birmingham City, AIK, Colorado Rapids and Djurgårdens IF. He was capped 58 times by Sweden, scoring 6 goals.
He started playing football in Brommapojkarna, famous for its production of footballing talent. He then played for Örgryte, joining in the wake of its sensational Swedish championship title in 1985. Although the team was not that successful, Limpar quickly became one of the hottest properties in Swedish football, which meant he was offered the chance to moved abroad to Switzerland with the Young Boys club of Bern. This was followed by a one-season spell in Italy with Cremonese during the 1989–90 season.
His club career peaked when he signed for Arsenal in the summer of 1990 from Cremonese, when he went on to win the Football League in the 1990–91 season, but he sat on the sidelines injured for Arsenal's cup wins in 1993 in both the League Cup and the FA Cup. He played a particularly notable part in the 1990–91 season, scoring some important goals, and impressing in his first season with exciting wing play and crowd-pleasing displays. These included a hat-trick against Coventry City a 6–1 win on the final day of the league season, by which time Arsenal were already champions. He managed a total of 13 goals that season, 11 of them in league. His efforts that year won him the Guldbollen (the Golden Ball – Sweden's player of the year award) 1991.
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