Mats Rubarth

Mats Carl Rickard Rubarth (born 25 January 1977) is a Swedish musician and former footballer, who played most of his senior career for AIK. He won one cap for the Sweden national team.

Mats Rubarth
Personal information
Full name Mats Carl Rickard Rubarth
Date of birth (1977-01-25) January 25, 1977
Place of birth Örebro, Sweden
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Left Winger
Youth career
1983–1991 IK Sturehov
1992–1996 Örebro SK
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–2000 Örebro SK 62 (3)
2001–2008 AIK 154 (21)
Total 216 (24)
National team‡
1993 Sweden U17 1 (0)
1999 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)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 1 January 2006

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, which arguably was Rubarth's best, he also proved to be an able goal scorer, scoring ten times that season in 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 picked up a staggering amount of yellow cards and quite a few red cards too. In 2003, he managed to get sent-off twice in a row. First against Helsingborgs IF in Allsvenskan and then in the next match against Fylkir in the UEFA Cup.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3] He came on with 10 minutes left to play and received the love from the fans one last time.[4] Rubarth left the club in January 2009, retiring from football at age 31.[5]

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.[6] He played for 58 minutes before being replaced by Lasse Nilsson in a 0–3 loss.[7]

Music career

An accomplished recording artist and composer, he previously recorded as a solo artist. He plays bass guitar in the Swedish glam-rock supergroup Casablanca. He is a member of the italo disco group Italove and has worked with noted artists in the genre, like Gazebo and Ken Laszlo.

Discography
  • 2001: Rubarth (EP)

References
  1. Nötter mellan jul och nyår Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish)
  2. Mats Rubarth hyllad av AIK-publiken i sin sista hemmamatch (in Swedish)
  3. Avtackning av Mats Rubarth på söndag (in Swedish)
  4. Kungen abdikerar - kronprinsen är redo Archived 8 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish)
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 8 April 2009. Retrieved 18 January 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Mats Rubarth - Spelarstatistik - Svensk fotboll". www.svenskfotboll.se. (in Swedish). Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  7. "Sverige - Norge - Matchfakta - Svensk fotboll". www.svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 1 February 2021.

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