Jan Stefan Rehn (born 22 September 1966) is a Swedish

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manager and former professional player who played as a

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. As a player he represented

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, Everton,

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, and

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, winning a combined six Swedish Championships with the two Swedish clubs. He won 45

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for the Sweden national team and represented his country at

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and the

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. He also represented the Sweden Olympic team at the

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Club career

Rehn was born in

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. After playing for a local club, he joined

from Stockholm. He made his debut in the senior team in the 1984 season. He was the

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top scorer in 1987. In 1988, he was part of Djurgården's Swedish Championship silver medal team and in 1989, he played in the 1989 Svenska Cupen Final loss against

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. In the Summer of 1989, he joined English club Everton who cost about half a million pounds from Djurgarden. Rehn started two games and made four substitute appearances for the Toffees. His debut in the League, came 16 September 1989 at

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against

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, when Everton won 1-0. Then it was 14 October 1989 when

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came to Goodison and were beaten 2-1. Rehn came on midway through the first half to replace an injured

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and was immediately shadowed by the Londoners' combative midfielder

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. By the hour Rehn was replaced by

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and this game would come to be Rehn's Everton watershed and he soon condemned as being too lightweight for the English game. In January 1990 he returned to Sweden and

with which he won five Swedish Championships. He then moved to Swiss club

before rejoining his old club Djurgårdens IF in 2000, winning another Championship in 2002 before retiring.

International career

Rehn, whose parents are from

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, received a call-up for the Sweden national under-18 football team but was ineligible to play until 1984 when he acquired Swedish citizenship. In total, he made eight U18 appearances (one goal) and 17 U21 appearances (three goals). Rehn made his international debut in a 1988 4–1 friendly win against

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, a match in which he also scored his first international goal in the 58th minute. He played two matches in the

for Sweden. He was part of the

squad, but did not play. He was part of the

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team that finished third at the

Management career

After his retirement, he was then part of Djurgården's coaching staff before taking the job as manager of his other previous Swedish club IFK Göteborg for the 2007 season as a joint manager with Jonas Olsson. He left in 2010. Between 2011 and 2013, he was head coach for

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, and in 2014 he joined Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC as head coach. In May 2018, Rehn was appointed head coach of

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. In December 2019, Rehn announced in an interview, that he had agreed to sign a new two-year deal. However, on 29 January 2020, it was confirmed that he had left the club and that the parties never signed any extension in December 2019.

Career statistics

Club

International

: ''Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Rehn goal''.

Honours

Djurgårdens IF *

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:http://www.difarkivet.se/dif_sm_guld_seniorer.pdf

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IFK Göteborg *

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Individual * Kristallkulan: 1991, 1993 * Axpo Player of the Year: 1998 *

Årets Järnkamin Årets Järnkamin ''(literally Iron Stove of the Year)'' is an award given to a Djurgårdens IF player, or coach, voted by the members of the official supporter club Järnkaminerna (The Iron Stoves). A person whom they felt represented the core val ...

: 2001 * Swedish Manager of the Year: 2007

References

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