Bo Janne Andreas Jakobsson (born 6 October 1972) is a Swedish former professional

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who played as a defender and

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. Starting off his professional career with

Landskrona BoIS Landskrona Boll och Idrottsällskap ( en, Landskrona Ball and Sports Society, locally referred to as BoIS) is a Swedish professional football club located in Landskrona, Scania, which currently plays in Superettan, the second league tier of fo ...

in 1990, he went on to also represent

Helsingborgs IF Helsingborgs IF (full name Helsingborgs Idrottsförening), commonly referred to as HIF (), is a Swedish professional football club located in Helsingborg. They play in the Swedish first tier, Allsvenskan, following promotion in the 2021 Superet ...

Hansa Rostock FC Hansa Rostock () is a German association football club based in the city of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The club is also called as "the cog" because of its club crest. They have emerged as one of the most successful clubs from the forme ...

Brøndby IF Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening (, usually abbreviated to Brøndby IF (), is a professional association football club based in Brøndbyvester, Capital Region of Denmark. The club was founded in 1964 as a merger between two local clubs and was p ...

, and

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before retiring at Helsingborg in 2007. He played 36 international matches for the Sweden national team, and was a squad player at the

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and

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Club career

Born in

Lund Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...

and raised in

Teckomatorp Teckomatorp () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality situated in Svalöv Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 1,651 inhabitants in 2010. It has a railway station (local trains) on the Malmö–Teckomatorp–Helsingborg railway line. BT Kemi sc ...

, Jakobsson started his senior career as a central defender for nearby club

in 1990. He helped Landskrona win

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for the top-flight Swedish

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championship in 1993. Landskrona were

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again following the 1994 Allsvenskan season, and Jakobsson moved on to Allsvenskan club

. He instantly commanded a place in Helsingborg's starting line-up, and made his debut for the Swedish national team in February 1996. Together with

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, he formed the strongest central defence in Allsvenskan for several years and in

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, 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 Allsvenskan 1999, part of the 1999 Swedish football season, was the 75th Allsvenskan season played. Helsingborgs IF won the league ahead of runners-up AIK, while Kalmar FF, Malmö FF and Djurgårdens IF were relegated. Summary *On 30 October 19 ...

championship with HIF, he moved abroad to play for

in the

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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

in the

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. He played five games in the 2004–05 Superliga, which Brøndby would go on to win, before moving to English club

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in the

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, scoring twice against Crystal Palace and Middlesbrough. At the end of the season, Southampton were relegated, and Jakobsson returned to play for

. After the 2007 season, he retired from professional football.

International career

Jakobsson was called up for the Swedish squad for the

, and played full-time in all four games for Sweden, replacing the injured captain

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. 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,

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took a penalty which Dutch keeper

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saved and Sweden were consequently eliminated.
/ref> 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 *

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Helsingborgs IF *

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: 1997–98,

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Brøndby IF *

: 2004–05

References

External links

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Profile
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