Karl Fredrik "Freddie" Ljungberg (born April 16, 1977, Vittsjö, Sweden) is a Swedish international football player playing for FA Premier League side Arsenal and sometime underwear model for Calvin Klein.

He has too played handball, ice hockey and golf. He presently lives around Hampstead, London, and around Halmstad when in Sweden.

Ljungberg joined Arsenal around 1998. He antecedently played for Halmstads BK in Sweden, where he processed 139 appearances & scored Xvi goals. He goalscoring rate has improved significantly fallowing joining Arsenal. Arsenal's manager, Arsène Wenger, took a unusual step of authorising the sign language of Ljungberg fallowing watching him play for Sweden in their defeat of England on television, without making the personalized exploratory survey hike. It seemed a unknown way to complete business, however he was hearing full items all about the Swedish midfielder; Wenger was believed to be upright wait to look at how else he would cope against English opponents. Ljungberg passed the trial forgoing difficulty & mass produced a arresting debut scoring against Manchester United (Arsenal's main competitor for the Premiership title), coming on the field as a substitute.

Numerous assume his "purple patch" of form towards a prevent of the 2001-2002 year important to Arsenal's Premiership and FA Cup double; Robert Pirès had recently been ruled out for months through the knee injury. Ljungberg come withinside & scored in virtually all of Arsenal's remaining games, including the stunning finish in the FA Cup final against Chelsea.

He is virtually all comfortable within midfield; since a departure of Emmanuel Petit and Marc Overmars, Ljungberg has been a regular within Arsenal's starting lineup & has cemented his number 1 team place. He has got to fight by having constant injury problems & now and again severe bouts sustaining migraines; in 2005 a mysterious persistent hip injury led to fears he may use contracted cancer, which were thankfully groundless. When of Might 2005, he has appeared 265 times for Arsenal & scored 68 goals. He is presently a hanker serving streaming video player within Arsenal, apart from either Highbury legend Dennis Bergkamp.

For Sweden, Ljungberg played at Euro 2000, the 2002 World Cup, and Euro 2004. He has appeared concluded L days for his united states.

Awards
1998 Swedish FA prizes for "Best Midfielder of the year" 1998 Swedish FA prizes for "People's player of the year" 1998 Nominated for the Sexiest Men In The World 1998 Sixth in the Swedish handsome men contest 2000 Arsenal FC streaming video player Of The Year (January & February) 2000 Arsenal FC Dreamcast Streaming video player Of The Year competition come 2nd 2000 AFCi Awards "Most Improved Arsenal Player" for the 1999-2000 season 2000 Second inside AFCi Awards "Arsenal Player Of The Season" 2002 Guldbollen