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Anders Svensson
Personal information
Full name	Anders Svensson
Date of birth	July 17, 1976 (1976-07-17) (age 31)
Place of birth	Göteborg, Sweden
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	IF Elfsborg
Youth clubs
	Guldhedens IK Hestrafors IF IF Elfsborg
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1993-2001 2001-2005 2005-	IF Elfsborg Southampton IF Elfsborg	155 0(38) 127 0(10) 069 0(16)
National team2
1999-	Sweden	086 0(15)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 24 May 2008. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 2 June 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Anders Svensson ['ɑndɛʃ 'svɛnsɔn] (born July 17, 1976 in Göteborg, Sweden) is a Swedish international football player playing for IF Elfsborg from Borås. He is a playmaker or left midfielder well known for his passing and dead balls.

Playing career

Svensson began playing football at Guldhedens IK when he was around five. He played at Guldheden for ten years, until he moved to Borås, where he began to play for IF Elfsborg. His role on the pitch is that of an offensive midfielder, although at Southampton he also played on the left of midfield. He made his breakthrough while playing for IF Elfsborg in the late 1990s before moving to English side Southampton in 2001. In England he was a key player for Southampton however near the end he was rarely a starter in Gordon Strachan's starting-11. He rejoined IF Elfsborg in 2005, where he is currently the captain.

International career

He debuted for the Swedish national side against South Africa in 1999.

He is known to be a very good free-kick taker, which he showed in the Football World Cup 2002 in South Korea/Japan, where he scored a once in a life time fabulous goal against Argentina which effectively eliminated the opponent in the group stages. He set up the opening goal for Henrik Larsson against Senegal through an in-swinging corner. He nearly scored a golden goal in extra time but his shot from inside the box was unfortunately denied by the post. He played for Sweden as well in both Euro 2004 and World Cup 2006. Nevertheless, his performance was not as good as when he played in World Cup 2002.

However, he found form for the national team during the Euro 2008 Qualifying stage. He played 11 games with 2 goals and 1 assist which lead Sweden to the Euro 2008. He was named as the captain of Sweden in the friendly match against Turkey in February, 2008.

Honours

Southampton

• FA Cup finalist 2003

IF Elfsborg

• Swedish Cup Champion 2001
• Allsvenskan Champion 2006

Other achievements

• FIFA World Cup
  • Round of Sixteen, 2002, 2006
• European Football Championship
  • Quarter-final, 2004