Olof Persson is a Swedish

Sweden

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 retired footballer, who currently works as Head coach of FC Rosengård

FC Rosengård

FC Rosengård is a Swedish professional football club located in the area Rosengård of Malmö. The club was founded in 1917 as Malmö Boll & Idrottsförening but has since been merged once and renamed twice...

.

Career

Persson played in central defence and had considerable aerial power.

Former clubs: Oxie IF (1995), Malmö FF

Malmö FF

Malmö Fotbollförening, also known simply as Malmö FF, are a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö. The club is affiliated with Skånes Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Swedbank Stadion. The club colours, reflected in their crest and kit, are sky blue and white...

 (1995-2001), FC Tirol (2002) and Malmö FF (2002-2006). Having played most of his career so far in Malmö FF (MFF), he has reached around 350 matches for the club, with which he won the Allsvenskan

Allsvenskan

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. This is also where the current sports chief in AGF, Brian Steen Nielsen

Brian Steen Nielsen

Brian Steen Nielsen is a former Danish professional footballer from Denmark, who most notably played 66 matches as a defensive midfielder for the Denmark national team between 1990 and 2002, scoring three goals...

, as a player met Persson. Persson left MFF after clashing with his coach, Sören Åkeby, who, incidentally, is a former coach of AGF. In his season in FC Tirol

FC Tirol Innsbruck

FC Tirol Innsbruck was an Austrian association footballclub from Innsbruck, Tyrol which existed between 1993 and 2002, when bankruptcy was declared....

, Persson was a part of a team that won the Austrian Bundesliga

Austrian Bundesliga

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 — shortly followed by the club's bankruptcy.

When Persson arrived at AGF, he was hailed as the new master of a very fragile defence, but after a few weeks he ruptured his ligament and he was never able to play an official match for the club before he retired from professional football on 4 September 2008, because of halting knee problems.

Honours

FC Tirol

• Austrian Football Bundesliga: 1

2002

Malmö FF

• Allsvenskan
  Allsvenskan
  Allsvenskan is a Swedish professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Swedish football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Superettan...
  
  : 1

2004

External links

AGF profile

• Career stats at Danmarks Radio
  Danmarks Radio
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