Marino Lars-Richard Ramberg (born 7 August 1974) is a Swedish former professional

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who played as a

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. Starting his career with

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in 1993, he went on to represent

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Degerfors IF Degerfors IF is a Swedish professional association football, football club located in Degerfors. The club, formed 13 January 1907, is currently playing in the highest tier in Swedish football, Allsvenskan. Background Degerfors IF first played ...

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, AIK, and

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before retiring at

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in 2003. A full international in 1997, he won four

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for the Sweden national team.

Club career

Rahmberg started his career at hometown club

, which were in the second tier and coached by

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. In 1995, he joined

after his previous manager had moved to the Danish club. He played six times at the 1995-96 Danish Superliga campaign, scoring in his second match against

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. He returned to Sweden in 1996 joining

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club

, located near his hometown

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. In first season at the club, he scored 13 goals and was the second best top scored of the

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, only behind Andreas Andersson. His performance was rewarded with a loan to

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side

in January 1997, but he played only 8 minutes for the Rams in the Premier League as a second-half substitute in a 4-2 defeat to

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on 22 February 1997. He had further appearances with the reserve side including a match where a clearance from the field went right into the front window of his car in the parking lot, smashing it. Rahmberg returned to Degerfors in the same year, but could not avoid the team's relegation from the Allsvenkan having scored a single goal in the campaign and missing matches due to injury. In 1998, he signed for AIK where he won the

1998 Allsvenskan Allsvenskan 1998, part of the 1998 Swedish football season, was the 74th Allsvenskan season played. AIK won the league ahead of runners-up Helsingborgs IF, while BK Häcken and Östers IF Östers Idrottsförening, commonly known as Östers ...

playing in 19 of the 26 matches, but scoring only 3 goals. Mainly a substitute in the following year, he won the 1998-99 Svenska Cupen and decided to leave to seek first team football. In 1999, he joined

in the

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. He was the 4th best top scorer in the 2000 Norwegian First Division and joint best top scorer in the 2001 championship. After 11 goals in 17 league matches in 2002, he returned to the top flight and back to Sweden with

. He suffered a herniated disc early in the 2003 season after falling down after a challenge, failed to recover and decided to retire from professional football.

International career

Rahmberg was called to the 1997

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after being the second best top scorer in the

. He played in all four matches of the tournament as Sweden on the tournament, although one of the matches was not considered as a FIFA A-international match.

Playing style

He was remarked by former coach

as a player with great pace and running ability.

Honours

AIK *

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: 1998–99 Sweden *

: 1997 Individual *

Golden Boot (joint winner):

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References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rahmberg, Marino 1974 births Living people Expatriate men's footballers in England Expatriate men's footballers in Norway Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark Swedish men's footballers Sweden men's international footballers Swedish expatriate men's footballers Allsvenskan players Premier League players Derby County F.C. players Lyngby Boldklub players AIK Fotboll players IFK Göteborg players Raufoss IL players Degerfors IF players BK Forward players Men's association football forwards Footballers from Örebro