Henrik Larsson (born September 20, 1971 in Helsingborg, Skåne län, Sweden) is a Swedish international football player. Henrik's father is from either a Cape Verde Islands off the coast of West Africa.

using completed sevener super successful years with Celtic in Glasgow, Scotland, after the prevent of the 2003/04 season he signed a of these month locate an stock for another year for Spanish giants Barcelona. Despite getting missed a majority of year 2004/2005 across injury, a stock to play around year 2005/2006 was extended & accepted.

Larsson began his broker career swimming for Högaborg at the age of Seventeen. He afterwards played for Helsingborgs IF and Feyenoord. Although he was finalising a details of the locate Grasshopper-Club Zürich in 1993 he moved to Feyenoord for £295,000. He was signed by Celtic inside July 1997 for the fee of £650,000. His debut, swimming Hibernian at Easter Road, was less than outstanding; he unwittingly passed the ball to the more side, sequent inside a Two - One loss for Celtic. He didn't fare lot better around his foremost European game, scoring in possess goal, although Celtic did redo retired 6 - Two winners. Larsson scored 242 goals for Celtic, inside 315 matches, & around 2001 he won the "Golden Shoe" award for existence Europe's top goal scorer.

Inside 2004, The Swedish Football Association nominated Henke as a greatest Swedish footballer of the previous Fifty years.

His guide to retire from either international football met by using tremendously dismay within his country of origin & there was lot clamouring for him to link to to the team for their campaign at around Portugal. Despite ab initio maintaining his guide to retire, turning down overtures from either UEFA President Lennart Johansson and a Swedish Prime Minister witharound the process, he yet returned to the national side at the behest of his boy, & to groovy symptom, scoring ternion goals in foursome matches & leading Sweden to the quarterfinals, in which it were defeated in a penalty shootout by the Dutch.

Larsson's international record is telling sustaining 33 goals withinside 83 games, several of which he played in midfield or even as a winger. He has universally processed his mark in large occasions & has scored at 2 World Cups (1994 at which Sweden came Tertiary, & 2002), and 2 European Championships (2000 and 2004).

He is married & has deuce tikes, Jordan (natural 1997) & Janice (born 2002).