Jens Åke Alexander Fjellström (born 27 October 1966) is a Swedish professional

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manager and

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. He is also a former professional player. He is currently an assistant coach for the

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Career

Club career

Fjellström started his career at local Umeå club Gimonäs CK. After the bigger clubs noticed his skills he moved to

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and

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. He remained at Djurgården for five seasons before moving to

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. He enjoyed much success at the club and went on a loan to

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before playing a final season in Malmö. Fjellström decided to end his career after a knee injury had made him miss a season after which he thought that he couldn't perform at the same level as before his injury.

International career

Fjellström won a total of three

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for the Sweden national team. On his international debut he scored his first and only international goal. This was in a friendly match against

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on 22 August 1990.

Media and Coaching

After retiring, Fjellström worked 15 years as a football expert on Swedish TV-channel TV4. He didn't extend his contract with the channel and instead on 26 July 2016, he was appointed as assistant manager of

. He left the position on 21 January 2019. In March 2019, he announced that he was going to work for the Denmark national team as a scout for manager

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. In 2022 he was appointed as an assistant coach of the Australian women's national soccer team.

References

* 1966 births Living people Footballers from Umeå Swedish men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Sweden men's international footballers Allsvenskan players Superettan players Djurgårdens IF Fotboll players Malmö FF players Dalian Shide F.C. players Swedish expatriate men's footballers Swedish expatriate sportspeople in China Expatriate men's footballers in China Swedish association football commentators Association football coaches 20th-century Swedish sportsmen Gimonäs CK players {{Sweden-footy-midfielder-stub