91 Facts About Henrik Larsson

Edward Henrik Larsson was born on 20 September 1971 and is a Swedish professional football coach and former player, formerly an assistant manager of Barcelona.

Henrik Larsson moved to Feyenoord in November 1993, staying for four years before leaving in 1997.

Henrik Larsson broke into the Swedish national football team, and helped them finish in third place at the 1994 World Cup.

Henrik Larsson suffered a broken leg in a UEFA Cup tie against Lyon in 1999.

Henrik Larsson won four league titles in his seven years at Celtic.

Henrik Larsson announced his retirement from football on 20 October 2009.

Henrik Larsson ended his international career with 37 goals in 106 matches.

Henrik Larsson won the Golden Ball, 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.

In 2010, Henrik Larsson began his career as a manager at the Superettan club Landskrona BoIS, where he stayed for three seasons.

Henrik Larsson 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 Henrik Larsson left the club.

Henrik Larsson served Barcelona as assistant to Ronald Koeman from August 2020 until October 2021.

Edward Henrik Larsson was born on 20 September 1971 in Helsingborg, Scania.

Henrik Larsson's father gave him a football when he was 16 months old and as a child, he was able to practice with brothers and friends on a large field near his home in Helsingborg.

Henrik Larsson went on to start his professional career playing for their senior team at age 17 while still at school.

On leaving school at 18, Henrik Larsson combined a semi-pro football career at Hogaborg with work as a fruit packer.

In four years playing at senior level with Hogaborg, Henrik Larsson scored 23 goals in 74 matches.

Henrik Larsson's star continued to rise the following year, as he netted 16 goals to help Helsingborg to a respectable mid-table finish.

Henrik Larsson took time to adjust to working and living in a foreign country and could only muster a modest 6 goals in 27 appearances in his first season.

In 1997, Henrik Larsson told manager Arie Haan that he wished to leave the club.

Henrik Larsson won his case and in July 1997, he signed for Scottish side Celtic.

Henrik Larsson went on to score 19 goals in all competitions, and was Celtic's top scorer for the season.

Henrik Larsson was awarded the honours of SPFA Players' Player of the Year, SFWA Footballer of the Year, and Swedish Footballer of the Year.

Henrik Larsson made his comeback with a substitute appearance against Dundee United at Celtic Park on the final day of the SPL season.

Henrik Larsson began a successful partnership with new arrival Chris Sutton, as he scored 35 league goals in 38 league games to become SPL top goalscorer and to win the European Golden Shoe.

Henrik Larsson was again voted SPFA Players' Player of the Year, as well as SFWA Footballer of the Year and FourFourTwo Scottish Player of the Year.

Henrik Larsson has even more, because, besides being a good player and goalscorer, he has a tremendous work rate.

The club were drawn against Valencia, with Henrik Larsson scoring the second leg goal to take the tie into penalties, which Celtic eventually lost.

Henrik Larsson ended the season as SPL top goalscorer with 29 goals from 33 league appearances.

Henrik Larsson missed both ties with Stuttgart, following a broken jaw, after a collision with Gustave Bahoken in an SPL match against Livingston, but he returned from injury in time for Celtic's quarter-final clash with 2001 winners Liverpool.

Henrik Larsson finished runner-up to Porto's Derlei in the competition's goalscoring charts.

Henrik Larsson described the pain of the defeat as being the worst moment of his career, including his broken leg in 1999.

Henrik Larsson finished the season again the top SPL goalscorer with 28 goals from 35 games.

Henrik Larsson ranked 14th and 12th in the final standings for the Ballon d'Or.

Henrik Larsson was again a nominee for the Ballon d'Or but received no votes.

In May 2005, he played in Jackie McNamara's testimonial against the Republic of Ireland, In May 2008, Henrik Larsson left Sweden's national training camp early to take part in a match played in memory of Henrik Larsson's former teammate Phil O'Donnell, who had died in December 2007 while playing in a match for Motherwell.

Henrik Larsson played as part of Celtic's 1998 championship-winning side against the Motherwell 1991 Scottish Cup-winning side.

On 9 August 2011, Henrik Larsson played for the Celtic Legends against the Manchester United Legends for John Kennedy's testimonial.

Henrik Larsson was the SPL record goalscorer with 158 goals.

Henrik Larsson played a testimonial match on 25 May 2004 against Sevilla in front of a capacity crowd at Celtic Park.

Henrik Larsson scored 3 goals in 12 Liga games and one goal in four Champions League matches.

In December 2005, Henrik Larsson announced that at the end of his contract, which ended in July, he would leave Barcelona and return to Sweden to end his career.

Henrik Larsson revealed that he had refused an offer by club president Joan Laporta to extend his contract to the end of the next season.

Henrik Larsson was my idol and now that I am playing next to him it is fantastic.

Henrik Larsson came on, he changed the game, that is what killed the game.

Henrik Larsson made his second debut for his home town club against Hammarby in the Swedish Cup on 6 July 2006.

Shortly after rejoining Helsingborg, Henrik Larsson was signed on loan by Manchester United from 1 January until 12 March 2007, coinciding with the Allsvenskan's off-season.

Henrik Larsson scored on his debut against Aston Villa in the FA Cup third round on 7 January 2007 at Old Trafford, facing his former Celtic manager Martin O'Neill.

Manchester United won the Premier League two months after Henrik Larsson had left the club, and although he had not played the required quota of ten league games to qualify for a Premier League winners medal, he, alongside Alan Smith, was granted special dispensation by the Premier League after the club requested extra medals for the two.

Henrik Larsson has since confirmed that he didn't receive a medal.

Henrik Larsson received a standing ovation from the home fans upon being substituted for Liverpool player Robbie Fowler.

Henrik Larsson helped the club through the preliminary stages of the UEFA Cup, where Henrik Larsson scored twice against Estonian side Narva Trans and st League of Ireland side Drogheda United.

In July 2009, Henrik Larsson scored three goals in the Europa League qualifying ties against Eastern European minnows Mika and Zestaponi.

Henrik Larsson broke his knee-cap during the first leg of the next qualifying round against Sarajevo on 30 July 2009, and was out for an estimated eight weeks.

Henrik Larsson is Helsingborg's record goalscorer in UEFA competitions with 12 goals.

On 20 October 2009, Henrik Larsson announced his retirement from playing at the end of the 2009 Allsvenskan.

Henrik Larsson had stated his desire to move into coaching and expressed his intent to study for coaching qualifications in Scotland under the Scottish Football Association system.

Henrik Larsson discussed the possibility of taking up floorball on a full-time basis.

Henrik Larsson participated in the Soccer Aid football match at Old Trafford on 6 June 2010 for the Rest of the World team in aid of UNICEF.

Henrik Larsson made a promise that at the end of his football career, he would play one season at his first club, Hogaborg.

Henrik Larsson then registered as a player with Hogaborg's senior-recreational side and played games with them.

Henrik Larsson came off the bench in the 85th minute, and played alongside his son, Jordan.

Henrik Larsson scored 37 goals in 106 matches for the Sweden national team.

Henrik Larsson again came on as a late substitute in the following game against Russia, and then played from the start in the final game of the group against Brazil.

Henrik Larsson was not used in the last 16 game against Saudi Arabia, but came on a substitute in the quarter-final tie against Romania.

Henrik Larsson became a regular in the side after that, playing in six of his country's qualifiers for UEFA Euro 1996.

Henrik Larsson did not score in any of these matches and Sweden failed to qualify for the finals.

Henrik Larsson scored one goal in four qualifying games as Sweden failed to qualify for the 1998 World Cup.

Sweden succeeded in qualifying for Euro 2000, with Henrik Larsson scoring three goals during the qualifying matches.

Henrik Larsson was selected for the Sweden squad despite having only just recovered from a broken leg sustained playing for Celtic.

Henrik Larsson chose to retire from international football after the World Cup.

Henrik Larsson retired from international football for the second time on 17 July 2006.

Henrik Larsson assisted Zlatan Ibrahimovic for a goal against Greece in the first group stage game, but could not help Sweden advance to the quarter-finals.

On 11 October 2009, after it was clear that Sweden had failed to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Henrik Larsson decided to retire from the national team.

At the age of 38 years and 20 days, Henrik Larsson became the oldest outfield player in the history of the Sweden national team with his last ever appearance against Denmark on 10 October 2009.

Henrik Larsson made clear his intentions to take up coaching once his playing career came to an end, having expressed an interest in returning to Celtic in a coaching capacity.

On 14 December 2009 Henrik Larsson was appointed manager at Landskrona BoIS, a Swedish second division football club, on a one-year contract.

The news that Henrik Larsson would take over Landskrona was received with mixed feelings, as his former club Helsingborg traditionally were their main rivals.

Some fans protested against both the board and Henrik Larsson, sarcastically suggesting that the club had used an impostor instead of the real Larsson.

Henrik Larsson played for 20 minutes with Landskrona's reserve team in a match against Mjallby AIF, but felt physically unprepared for playing in Superettan, even if the sporting director of Landskrona, Mats Aronsson, believed the opposite.

Landskrona and Henrik Larsson avoided relegation and finished tenth largely because of the summer signing of goalkeeper Ivo Vazgec who achieved the best save percentage in the league.

On 21 November 2011, Henrik Larsson signed a new one-year contract, making him manager for Landskrona during the 2012 Superettan as well.

In November 2012, Henrik Larsson confirmed he had left his position and would consider any available posts elsewhere.

On 4 December 2013, Henrik Larsson was appointed manager of Falkenberg, signing a one-year rolling contact with the newly promoted club.

On 3 October 2018, Division 1 club Angelholms FF announced that Henrik Larsson would join the staff as assistant to head coach Alexander Tengryd, whom Henrik Larsson had worked together with in Helsingborg.

On 16 June 2019, Helsingborg announced that Henrik Larsson had returned to the club as their new manager.

On 23 August 2019, Helsingborg announced that Henrik Larsson had decided to quit as head coach after being verbally assaulted on social media following the club's loss to third tier club Oskarshamns AIK in the qualification to Svenska Cupen group stage.

Henrik Larsson stood out for his discipline, professionalism and work-rate throughout his career.

On 21 June 1996, Henrik Larsson married Magdalena Spjuth, whom he had met in a restaurant when he was 19 years old.

Henrik Larsson is the daughter of a politician and an education director at the local municipality.

Henrik Larsson was not told until after the match had concluded.