Ambassador: Patrik Andersson

Clubs: Malmö (1989–92), Blackburn Rovers (1992–93), Borussia Mönchengladbach (1993–99), Bayern München (1999–2001), Barcelona (2001–04), Malmö (2004–05)

National team: Sweden (1992–2002)

Caps/goals: 96/3

• The son of Sweden defender Roy Andersson, Patrik earned early recognition at Malmö, where he spent four seasons in the Allsvenskan and became a Swedish international himself – starring in the team that reached the EURO '92 semi-finals on home soil.

• Joined Blackburn in December 1992, midway through the inaugural Premier League campaign, but failed to settle and left within a year for Germany, transferring to Mönchengladbach where he lifted the 1995 German Cup and remained until 1999.

• A bronze medallist with Sweden at the 1994 FIFA World Cup, he would represent his country on 96 occasions, taking his leave after the 2002 World Cup in the Far East. Neither he nor brother Daniel, both squad members, played in Korea/Japan; he did feature two years earlier, however, at UEFA EURO 2000.

• Departed Mönchengladbach for Bayern, where he won the Bundesliga twice – scoring the last-gasp title-clinching goal against Hamburger SV in the second of those seasons – and also had a key role in the club's 2000/01 UEFA Champions League triumph (despite missing a penalty in the final shoot-out against Valencia CF).

• An injury-plagued three-year stint at Barcelona followed, before he returned to Malmö in 2004 and captained the side to the Allsvenskan championship. He retired, aged 34, because of injury the next year.

• Andersson, along with Steffi Jones, was an ambassador for UEFA Women's EURO 2013 in Sweden.