Tobias Holmqvist

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Tobias Holmqvist
Tobias Holmqvist Falkenberg.jpg
Holmqvist playing for Falkenberg in 2008.
Personal information
Date of birth (1988-01-23) 23 January 1988 (age 36)
Height 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) [1]
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1994–2001 Uppåkra
2002–2006 Helsingborg
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2007–2010 Helsingborg 8 (2)
2007 → GAIS (loan) 10 (1)
2008 → Falkenberg (loan) 9 (0)
2009 → GAIS (loan) 2 (0)
2010 Hammarby 19 (1)
2011 Lund 22 (1)
2015 Högaborg
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 09:01, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Tobias Holmqvist (born 23 January 1988) is a Swedish former footballer who played as a striker.

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Career

Holmqvist played for Uppåkra between the ages of 6 and 13, before joining Helsingborg in January 2002. [2] While with Helsingborg he spent loan spells at GAIS and Falkenberg. [2] [3] [4] GAIS had wanted to sign Holmqvist on a permanent contract, but he elected to remain at Helsingborg as it was his boyhood club. [2] He dropped down a division to sign for Hammarby in 2010 on the advice of his agent, in order to make more first-team appearances, taking a pay cut in the process. [2] The next season, he dropped down a division again to sign for Lund, [5] motivated in part due to homesickness. [2] In 2012, he did not have a club, and instead worked at Team Sportia, a sports shop in Helsingborg. [2] In 2015, he was playing for Högaborg in the Swedish fourth division. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Tobias Holmqvist at Soccerway. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Jimmy Fors (25 September 2012). "Tobias Holmqvist – Talangen som försvann från HIF" (in Swedish). alltomhif.se. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "Profile" (in Swedish). svenskfotboll.se. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  4. ↑ Tony Balogh (28 July 2009). "GAIS lånar Tobias Holmqvist" (in Swedish). GAIS. Archived from the original on 31 July 2009. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  5. ↑ Love Gustafsson (22 January 2011). "Tobias Holmqvist går till Lunds BK" (in Swedish). Hammarby Fotboll. Archived from the original on 22 January 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2015.


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