Mats Carl Rickard Rubarth (born 25 January 1977) is a Swedish
musician
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and former
footballer
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, who played most of his senior career for
AIK
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. He won one
cap
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for the
Sweden national team.
Football career
Club career
Rubarth was a technical
left-winger who liked to dribble past defenders from the left side of the pitch, even though he was right footed. He regularly provided strikers with good passes and consequently got quite a few assists during his career. During the
2003 season
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, which arguably was Rubarth's best, he also proved to be an able goal scorer, scoring ten times that season in
Allsvenskan
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. One of his more famous goals was however scored in
2001
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against local rivals
Hammarby IF
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when he scored with a spectacular
bicycle kick
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.
Though not a physical player, Rubarth picked up a staggering amount of
yellow cards
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* Yellowcard, an American alternative rock band
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and quite a few
red cards too. In 2003, he managed to get sent-off twice in a row. First against
Helsingborgs IF
Helsingborgs IF (full name Helsingborgs Idrottsförening), commonly referred to as HIF (), is a Swedish professional football club located in Helsingborg. They play in the Swedish first tier, Allsvenskan, following promotion in the 2021 Superet ...
in Allsvenskan and then in the next match against
Fylkir
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in the
UEFA Cup
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.
Despite his on-pitch temper problems, Rubarth was very popular at AIK's home ground
Råsunda for several reasons, including his entertaining style and commitment to the club. On 31 October 2008 it was announced that he would quit the team after the
current season and that the match against
Helsingborgs IF
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two days later would be his last at Råsunda. He came on with 10 minutes left to play and received the love from the fans one last time. Rubarth left the club in January 2009, retiring from football at age 31.
International career
Rubarth represented the
Sweden U17 and
U21 teams a total of two times before making his full international debut for the
Sweden national team on 22 January 2004 in a friendly game against
Norway
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. He played for 58 minutes before being replaced by
Lasse Nilsson
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in a 0–3 loss.
Music career
An accomplished
recording artist
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and
composer
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, he previously recorded as a solo artist. He plays
bass guitar
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in the Swedish
glam-rock
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supergroup Supergroup or super group may refer to:
* Supergroup (music), a music group formed by artists who are already notable or respected in their fields
* Supergroup (physics), a generalization of groups, used in the study of supersymmetry
* Supergroup ...
Casablanca
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. He is a member of the
italo disco
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group Italove and has worked with noted artists in the genre, like
Gazebo
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Etymology
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and
Ken Laszlo
Gianni Coraini (born 18 July 1954), known by his stage name Ken Laszlo, is an Italian singer, songwriter and musician.
Laszlo was interested in music at a young age and his career began in 1980 when he played and sang in discos, bowling alleys, a ...
.
Discography
*2001: ''Rubarth'' (
EP)
References
External links
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rubarth, Mats
Swedish men's footballers
Sweden men's international footballers
Sweden men's under-21 international footballers
Living people
AIK Fotboll players
1977 births
Örebro SK players
Allsvenskan players
People from Örebro
Men's association football midfielders