Marcus Lantz (born 23 October 1975) is a Swedish football manager and former professional

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who played as a

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. A full international between 1998 and 2010, he played six matches for the Sweden national team.

Career

Born in

Kristianstad Kristianstad (, ; older spelling from Danish language, Danish ''Christianstad'') is a Urban areas in Sweden, city and the seat of Kristianstad Municipality, Scania County, Sweden with 40,145 inhabitants in 2016. During the last 15 years, it has ...

, Lantz started playing football with amateur club IFÖ/Bromölla IF. After one season, he moved on to

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 ...

in the top-flight

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football lea ...

championship. He helped Helsingborg win the 1998

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and

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 ...

titles and had a trial at English club

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in December 1997, before he moved abroad in the winter 1999. After a short stop at

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in Italy, where he had limited playing time, Lantz moved to

FC 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 ...

in the

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championship in November 1999. He was instantly a part of the Rostock first team line-up, and in his six seasons with the club, he played 164 league matches. While at Rostock, Lantz chose to play no longer for the Swedish national team. With his contract running out in the summer 2005, he left Rostock on a free transfer. He joined Danish club

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 ...

, under manager

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. In his second season with Brøndby, Lantz suffered an injury, which received false treatment and kept him out for two months. He moved back to Sweden and

on 31 August 2007 and signed a contract until 2011. After his contract ended he joined

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 early 2011, where he played for two seasons finishing his playing career in the end of 2012.

Honours

Helsingborgs IF *

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: 1997–98,

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* * * * * * 1975 births Living people Swedish men's footballers Sweden men's international footballers FC Hansa Rostock players Brøndby IF players Helsingborgs IF players Torino FC players Landskrona BoIS players Allsvenskan players Bundesliga players Danish Superliga players Swedish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark Örgryte IS managers Men's association football midfielders Swedish football managers Sweden men's youth international footballers Sweden men's under-21 international footballers Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Germany Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Italy People from Bromölla Municipality Footballers from Skåne County {{Sweden-footy-midfielder-stub