Adam Johansson
| Adam Johansson | ||
.jpg) Johansson in March 2014
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | February 21, 1983 | |
| place of birth | Jonkoping , Sweden | |
| size | 183 cm | |
| position | Right full-back | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Kungsladugård BK | ||
| Slottskogen / Godhem IF | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2002-2004 | Västra Frölunda IF | 66 (1) |
| 2005-2011 | IFK Gothenburg | 129 (1) |
| 2012-2013 | Seattle Sounders FC | 21 (0) |
| 2013-2016 | IFK Gothenburg | 45 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2003-2005 | Sweden U-21 | 13 (0) |
| 2009-2013 | Sweden | 15 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Adam Johansson (born February 21, 1983 in Jönköping ) is a former Swedish football player . The defender , who won the Swedish championship and cup with IFK Göteborg , played for the Swedish national team between 2009 and 2013 .
Career
Johansson played for Slottskogen / Godhem IF and Kungsladugård BK in his youth . In the second division season 2002 , the defender made his debut for the second division Västra Frölunda IF in Swedish professional football. In his first season he was able to fight for a regular place and was in the starting line-up in 25 games. With the club he only missed promotion to the first-class Allsvenskan in the relegation against IFK Göteborg . In his second season he came on 13 missions, but played at the same time in the Swedish U-21 team . In the 2004 season he established himself in the regular formation both at his club and in the U-21 national team.
In January 2005 Johansson moved within Gothenburg the club. The full-back's new club was the first division club IFK Göteborg , where he played half of the season's games in his first first division season. From the second year he was used more and more and in the championship season 2007 he missed two games at the side of Bengt Andersson , Hjálmar Jónsson , Niclas Alexandersson , George Mourad , Stefan Selakovic and top scorer Marcus Berg only because of yellow bans, but otherwise got up every minute the place. At the beginning of the 2008 season , Johannson fell out due to an injury, but was able to play his way back into the regular formation after his recovery. While he finished third with the club in the league behind champions Kalmar FF and IF Elfsborg , the team moved into the cup final. There he was in the starting lineup for the duel against Kalmar FF and was replaced by Jonas Wallerstedt after 99 minutes of play . After extra time ended in a 0-0 draw, his teammates Niclas Alexandersson, Kim Christensen , Ragnar Sigurðsson , Hjálmar Jónsson and Pontus Wernbloom decided the penalty shoot-out in favor of IFK Göteborg.
Due to his good performances over the course of the season, national coach Lars Lagerbäck called Johansson to the opening international matches of the Swedish national team in January 2009. He made his debut on January 24th at the side of Johan Dahlin , Gustav Svensson and Mikael Dahlberg in the 2: 3 defeat by the US National team , in which the three-time goalscorer Sacha Klještan stood out. As a result, he stayed in the national team and played all international matches until the summer. In July it slowed a serious knee injury when he the duel with championship rivals AIK on cruciate ligament injury. Without his involvement, the club reached the runner-up behind AIK and also lost the cup final against the club. In the 2010 season , after his recovery, he was one of the main players on the defensive again. As a result, he returned at the beginning of 2011 for the opening international matches of the national team in January in the national team now overseen by Erik Hamrén . After back problems, Johansson dropped out at the beginning of the 2011 season . After his recovery he was a regular again in the second half of the season and played 15 league games.
Johansson's move to the United States became known shortly after Christmas 2011. He signed a multi-year contract with Seattle Sounders FC , which was competing in Major League Soccer . In the 2012 season of the MLS, he played 21 games of regular time and was used in all four games of the play-off round of the franchise before the eventual champions Los Angeles Galaxy prevailed in the conference semifinals . At the same time, he stayed in the squad of the Swedish national team, although he was mainly a substitute and was not nominated by Hamrén for the squad for the 2012 European Championship .
At the beginning of the 2013 season in March Johansson missed the first games due to injury. On March 19th, coach Sigi Schmid announced the upcoming separation from the player, officially in order to have more leeway with the salary cap . A few days later, his former club IFK Göteborg announced the return of the defensive player, who agreed with the club on a contract valid until the end of 2016. In May of that year he was with Gothenburg in the cup final, which was won on penalties against Djurgårdens IF . He also reached third place in the table with the team under coach Mikael Stahre at the end of the Allsvenskan season in 2013 , which was followed by the runner-up in the following season.
After Jörgen Lennartsson took over as coach at the beginning of 2015, Johansson moved into the second tier. When he again won the 2015 Cup against Örebro SK , he was not part of the 18-player squad on the day of the final. After he was also used sporadically afterwards, they parted ways after his contract expired at the end of 2016. Then he remained without a club, in the summer of 2017 he officially announced end of his career and announced that jurisprudence to want to study.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ dn.se: "Adam Johansson klar för IFK Göteborg" (accessed on March 1, 2010)
- ↑ aftonbladet.se: "" Korsbandet är avslitet "" (accessed on March 1, 2010)
- ^ Adam Johansson hoppas vara tillbaka i June ( Memento from July 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ soundersfc.com: "Sounders FC signs Johansson" (accessed January 5, 2012)
- ↑ mlssoccer.com: "Seattle Sounders cut ties with Swedish right back Adam Johansson" (accessed on March 26, 2013)
- ↑ ifkgoteborg.se: "Adam tillbaka i IFK Göteborg" ( Memento from April 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 26, 2013)
- ↑ svenskafans.com: "Adam Johansson lämnar IFK Göteborg" (accessed on May 29, 2017)
- ↑ fotbolltransfers.com: "Adam Johansson lägger av:" Jag ska börja studera "" (accessed on 23 August 2017)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Johansson, Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jonkoping |