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Henrik Rydström
	Rydström in 2008
Personal information
Full name	Henrik Per-Erik Rydström
Date of birth	16 February 1976 (age 48)
Place of birth	Karlskrona, Sweden
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Malmö
Youth career
1982–1993	Listerby
1993–1995	Kalmar
Senior career*
Years	Team
1993–2013	Kalmar
2014	Berga
2014–2016	Listerby
2016	Hossmo
Managerial career
2014	Kalmar (U17)
2015	Kalmar (U19)
2016	Kalmar (assistant)
2017	Kalmar (U19)
2017–2018	Kalmar (assistant)
2018	Kalmar (caretaker/assistant)
2019–2020	Sirius
2021–2022	Kalmar
2023–	Malmö
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Henrik Per-Erik Rydström (born 16 February 1976) is a Swedish football manager and former player who manages Allsvenskan club Malmö.

As of 2013 he was the sixth longest serving player in the world when it comes to playing for the same club.^[1]

Career

He made his debut for Kalmar in 1994 and played his last game for the team in 2013. He was a defensive midfielder known for a good passing foot and superb leadership on and off the pitch. In the spring of 2008, he was named best club captain of Allsvenskan in a vote from the players of the league.^[2] Henrik Rydström holds the club record for most games played for Kalmar with 802 games.^[3]

Politics

He has held speeches for the Swedish Social Democratic Party. He stated in a podcast interview with local newspaper Sydsvenskan owned by Bonnier Group while manager for Malmö that he wants to "take the fight harder against the Sweden Democrats".^[4] This statement stirred reactions from the Sweden Democrats in Malmö who accused him of "bullying and excluding their voter base from welcome to Eleda Stadion".^[5] His statement furthermore marked a change in Malmö's neutral stance of outwards politics both regionally and nationally as a democratically membership owned football association as the press officer of Malmö attended the interview.