Name: Peter Nils-Gösta Larsson



Country: Sweden
Club: IFK Göteborg
Position: *CB, DMF
Side: RF/BS
Age: 23-26 years (08/03/1961)

Height: 183 cm
Weight: 80 kg

Attack: 70
Defence: 83
Balance: 84
Stamina: 83
Top Speed: 80
Acceleration: 76
Response: 82
Agility: 74
Dribble Accuracy: 77
Dribble Speed: 73
Short Pass Accuracy: 76
Short Pass Speed: 80
Long Pass Accuracy: 79
Long Pass Speed: 83
Shot Accuracy: 69
Shot Power: 88
Shot Technique: 69
Free Kick Accuracy: 76
Curling: 68
Header: 82
Jump: 84
Technique: 78
Aggression: 74
Mentality: 78
Keeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 82

Injury Tolerance: B
Condition: 5
Weak Foot Accuracy: 5
Weak Foot Frequency: 5
Consistency: 5
Free Kick Style: 8
Growth Type: Standard

CARDS:
P13: Long Ranger
P18: Extra Attacker
S02: Passer
S04: PK Taker

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Middle Shooting - Passing - Penalties

Attack / Defence Awareness Card: Attack Minded


INFO:

Peter Nilsson is former Swedish player. He was centre back, also played in midfield. Very offensive defender, scoring often from set pieces and open play. Not always concentrated in defence but he had good attacking play, especially sharp passing range and rocket shot. Peter Larsson started his sports career in Jönköping and its IF Hallby. He was a good handball player (debut in the first team when she was 15) but it was football that became his main sport. 20 years old he went to Halmstad BK and two years later he was recruited by the 1980's monster in Swedish football, IFK Gothenburg. There were four successful years in IFK Gothenburg. The first year, 1984, he made two goals in the Championship Finals as IFK Gothenburg utklassning won against IFK Norrköping and in 1986 was his IFK a penalty kick from the final of the European Cup. 3-0 at home against FC Barcelona were 0-3 in Barcelona. In the shoot shot Peter surely his sentence in goal but Barcelona still passed on to the finals. Next year, 1987, was Peter Larsson's best year in Sweden. That was when IFK Goteborg championships and the UEFA cup (after final win against Dundee United), he established himself in the Swedish A-squad, where he in the European Championship qualifiers against Italy scored both home and away, he received the Golden Ball, he was selected the World team and he turned pro in Dutch Ajax. After four years at Ajax, including a Dutch championship, the club invested in a ten years younger defender, Marciano Vink, and Peter chose to go to AIK. 1991, AIK much smaller than today (2002) and the organization around the team had not any great extent. The public interest was low, AIK had in 1990 had a Hockeyallsvenskan home average of 5014 (and only 3113 of derby matches were removed), while there were a lot of feelings around the AIK. But neither Ajax had by this time any large organization, a total of about 15 employees. Peter Larsson also points to the hard weight training as AIK ran throughout the year. Then, in 1992, was the former coach Lars 'Laban' Arnesson a strong force in Swedish football, and he was against this type of training. But AIK are physically strong and stayed healthy. Tommy Soderberg and Thomas Lyth made a great job and gave AIK the stability that the team needed. The entire club got a kick, AIK had previously been known to be a "heavy mittenlag". With the gold had many of the AIK taste for more, it was a start of things to come later in the 1990s. In 2001, Larsson became assistant coach for AIK in Allsvenskan, working under his former national team coach Olle Nordin, and when Nordin left the coach job due to illness shortly before the 2002 season, Larsson became head coach. His career however became short - after seven games with only one win, Larsson decided to quit. Ha hasn't returned to high level football thereafter.