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Bo Janne Andreas Jakobsson (born 6 October 1972) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a defender and defensive midfielder. Starting off his professional career with Landskrona BoIS in 1990, he went on to also represent Helsingborgs IF, Hansa Rostock, Brøndby IF, and Southampton before retiring at Helsingborg in 2007. He played 36 international matches for the Sweden national team, and was a squad player at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2004.
Club career
Born in Lund and raised in Teckomatorp, Jakobsson started his senior career as a central defender for nearby club Landskrona BoIS in 1990. He helped Landskrona win promotion for the top-flight Swedish Allsvenskan championship in 1993. Landskrona were relegated again following the 1994 Allsvenskan season, and Jakobsson moved on to Allsvenskan club Helsingborgs IF. He instantly commanded a place in Helsingborg's starting line-up, and made his debut in the Sweden national team in February 1996. Together with Ola Nilsson, he formed the strongest central defence in Allsvenskan for several years and in 1999, HIF was finally able to win Allsvenskan after 58 years of waiting. Without the solid defence controlled by Jakobsson, many doubt it would have been possible.
After winning the 1999 Allsvenskan championship with HIF, he moved abroad to play for Hansa Rostock in the Bundesliga in the summer 2000. He played three seasons at Rostock, missing only three of 102 league games for the club. In July 2003, Jakobsson left Rostock to play for Brøndby IF in the Danish Superliga.
He played five games in the 2004–05 Superliga, which Brøndby would go on to win, before moving to English club Southampton F.C. in the FA Premier League, scoring twice against Crystal Palace and Middlesbrough. At the end of the season, Southampton were relegated, and Jakobsson returned to play for Helsingborgs IF. After the 2007 season, he retired from professional football.
International career
Jakobsson was called up for the Swedish squad for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, and played full-time in all four games for Sweden, replacing the injured captain Patrik Andersson. He was selected to represent Sweden at the 2004 European Championship, and played full-time in the tournament, as Sweden reached the quarter-finals. He was a designated penalty taker in the penalty shoot out against the Netherlands, but refused to take his penalty. Instead, Olof Mellberg took a penalty which Dutch keeper Edwin van der Sar saved and Sweden were consequently eliminated. Jakobsson announced his retirement from international football after the tournament.
Career statistics
= Club
== International
=Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Jakobsson goal.
Honours
Landskrona BoIS
Division 1 Södra: 1993
Helsingborgs IF
Allsvenskan: 1999
Svenska Cupen: 1997–98, 2006
Brøndby IF
Danish Superliga: 2004–05
References
External links
Andreas Jakobsson at Soccerbase
Andreas Jakobsson at EU-Football.info
Profile from the Swedish Football Association (in Swedish)
Interview from Sportbladet (in Swedish)
Brøndby IF profile (in Danish) at the Wayback Machine (archived 27 September 2007)
Andreas Jakobsson at fussballdaten.de (in German)
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- Kualifikasi Piala Dunia FIFA 2002 – Grup 2 UEFA
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- Andreas Granqvist
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- UEFA Euro 2004 Group C
- List of Sweden international footballers
- Walter Jakobsson
- Iceland men's national handball team
- UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying
