Hans Åke Krister "Hasse" Mattisson (born 29 August 1972) is a Swedish former

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player and current head coach.

Club career

Mattisson came to

Malmö FF Malmö Fotbollförening (), commonly known simply as Malmö FF or MFF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö, Scania. They compete in the Allsvenskan, the top division of Swedish football, and play home matches at the Eleda S ...

from Husie IF in 1995 and remained in the club for a decade, and was the

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during the

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season of 2000. In August 2006, he left Malmö FF for Halmstad BK; the move came as a shock for MFF supporters, who held Mattisson in very high regard. Nevertheless, Mattisson received enormous applause from the supporters who had travelled to

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to watch him play against Malmö the following month, both before and after the game. At the end of the 2007 season, Mattisson announced that he would retire from professional football and had signed a new deal with MFF, working for their marketing department.

International career

Mattisson appeared once for the Sweden B team.

Managerial career

Following a co-operation deal with Malmö FF and former rivals

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, the club announced that Mattisson would join IFK Malmö as assistant

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alongside MFF teammate Jörgen Ohlsson - the co-operation was broken in 2009, with Mattisson and Ohlsson being relieved of their coaching duties. Mattisson later played half a season for his youth club Husie IF in the fall of 2009. He worked last as the head coach of FC Rosengård 1917, until July 2015.

Honours

;Malmö FF *

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References

External links

Mattisson's blog
1972 births Living people Swedish men's footballers Allsvenskan players Superettan players Malmö FF players Halmstads BK players Swedish male bloggers Men's association football midfielders FC Rosengård 1917 managers Swedish football managers {{Sweden-footy-midfielder-stub