Karl Mattias Lindström (born 18 April 1980) is a Swedish former professional

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who played as a

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. He is the manager of

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 ...

Club career

Lindström played for

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from June 2008 to March 2009 before his contract was terminated. Thereafter, Lindström signed with

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. He joined Innsbruck in 2008, signing from

Aalborg Boldspilklub Aalborg Boldspilklub is a Danish sports club based in the city of Aalborg. The club is also known as AaB for short (cf. logo) or Aalborg BK. Through time the club has had branches in cricket, tennis, ice hockey, handball, and basketball, but cur ...

of the

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championship. Before moving to Denmark, Lindström played eight seasons for Swedish team

, for whom he debuted in 1997. In January 2010, he returned to his youthclub

and signed a three-year contract. In 2013, he managed to score in all of the first 6 rounds of Allsvenskan - a new all-time record for Allsvenskan.

International career

Lindström played three times for the

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. He was part of the Sweden team that won the

2003 King's Cup Venue All matches held at the Supachalasai Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand Tournament Round robin tournament ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Third Place Match ---- Final ---- Winner Scorers ;4 goals * Mohammed Salem Al-Enaz ...

References

External links

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at

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* 1980 births AaB Fodbold players Danish Superliga players Allsvenskan players Austrian Football Bundesliga players Swedish expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Austria Expatriate footballers in Denmark FC Wacker Innsbruck players Helsingborgs IF players Living people Sportspeople from Helsingborg SV Mattersburg players Sweden international footballers Sweden under-21 international footballers Swedish footballers Association football midfielders {{Sweden-footy-midfielder-stub