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 represented

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, and

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before retiring at Helsingborg in 2015. A full international for the Sweden national team, he won three

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in 2003.

Club career

Lindström played for

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

. 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, team handball, handball, and baske ...

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 youth club

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 The 34th King's Cup finals was held from 16 to 22 February 2003 at the Supachalasai Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand. The King's Cup (คิงส์คัพ) is an annual football tournament; the first tournament was played in 1968. Venue Tourna ...

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* * * 1980 births AaB Fodbold players Danish Superliga players Allsvenskan players Austrian Football Bundesliga players Swedish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark FC Wacker Innsbruck (2002) players Helsingborgs IF players Living people Footballers from Helsingborg SV Mattersburg players Sweden men's international footballers Sweden men's under-21 international footballers Swedish men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Austria Swedish football managers Helsingborgs IF managers Allsvenskan managers 21st-century Swedish sportsmen {{Sweden-footy-midfielder-stub