Mats Rubarth

Mats Rubarth

Personal information
Full name	Mats Carl Rickard Rubarth
Date of birth	January 25, 1977 (1977-01-25) (age 34)
Place of birth	Örebro, Sweden
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Left Winger
Youth career
1983–1991	IK Sturehov
1992–1996	Örebro SK
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1997–2000	Örebro SK	65	(5)
2001–2008	AIK	154	(21)
National team‡
1993	Sweden U21	1	(0)
2004	Sweden	1	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:57, 27 October 2008 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 1 January 2006

Mats Rubarth (born 25 January 1977 in Örebro, Sweden) is a Swedish musician and former footballer, who played most of his senior career in AIK.

Career

He left Örebro SK after the 2000 season for AIK.

A technical left-winger (though right footed), Rubarth excels in dribbling past defenders. He regularly provides strikers with good passes, and consequently gets quite a few assists. During the 2003 season, Rubarth's best, he proved to be an able goal scorer too, netting ten times in the Swedish top division, Allsvenskan. One of his more famous goals was however scored in 2001 against local rivals Hammarby IF when he scored with a spectacular bicycle kick.

Though not a physical player, Rubarth picks up a staggering amount of yellow cards, and quite a few red ones.

Despite his on-pitch temper problems, Rubarth is quite 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 two days later would be his last at Råsunda.^[1] He came on with 10 minutes left to play and received the love from the fans one last time.^[2] Rubarth leave the club in January 2009 and is currently free agent.^[3]

Music career

He is also an recording artist and composer and has released one EP so far.

Discography

• 2001: Rubarth (EP)

References

1. ^ Avtackning av Mats Rubarth på söndag (Swedish)
2. ^ Kungen abdikerar - kronprinsen är redo (Swedish)
3. ^ http://www.aikfotboll.se/herrar/laget/Sidor/default.aspx

External links

• Mats Rubarth at National-Football-Teams.com

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Name	Rubarth, Mats
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Date of birth	25 January 1977
Place of birth	Örebro, Sweden
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