Emil Forsberg

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Emil Forsberg
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Emil Forsberg (2018)
Personnel
birthday October 23, 1991
place of birth Sundsvall ,  Sweden
size 177 cm
position Winger
Juniors
Years station
0000-2008 GIF Sundsvall
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2009–2012 GIF Sundsvall 97 (24)
2009 → Medskogsbron BK (loan) 0
2013-2014 Malmö FF 57 (19)
2015– RB Leipzig 136 (27)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2009-2010 Sweden U19 8 0(0)
2014– Sweden 49 0(8)
1 Only league games are given.
As of June 1, 2020

2 As of November 15, 2019

Emil Forsberg (last name [ fɔʂbærj ], born October 23, 1991 in Sundsvall ) is a Swedish football player . The offensive player is under contract with RB Leipzig .

Career

Forsberg joined the youth department of GIF Sundsvall . During the second division season in 2009 he made his debut for the club in the Superettan . There he moved into the focus of the Swedish U19 selection . In the following season he contributed to reaching the relegation place to Allsvenskan in all 30 games of the season ; the two games against the first division club Gefle IF were lost. At the side of David Myrestam , Ari Freyr Skúlason , Fredrik Holster and Stefan Ålander , he contributed with eleven goals this season in the 2011 season to reaching second place in the table and thus direct promotion to the Allsvenskan. The club had already extended its contract term to 2013 in the summer. At the start of the first division season in 2012 Forsberg injured his foot. In total, he came to 21 stakes; the team ended the season on the relegation place. Against Halmstads BK they missed the league after a 3-0 defeat in the first leg despite a 4-3 success in the second leg.

Forsberg stayed in Allsvenskan and signed a four-year contract with Malmö FF in December 2012 . Under coach Rikard Norling , he initially switched between the starting eleven and substitutes' bench, but established himself as a regular player over the course of the 2013 season and ultimately contributed to winning the championship with five goals this season. National coach Erik Hamrén honored his achievements over the course of the season in December 2013 when he nominated him for the senior national team . In January 2014, he made his debut in the 2-1 win against Moldova in the national jersey and subsequently stayed in the extended circle of the national team. At club level, he excelled as a regular goalscorer in the Swedish championship. With the team around Markus Rosenberg , Ricardinho , Robin Olsen and Markus Halsti , he qualified for the group stage of the Champions League for the first time in the club's history in the summer . In November he defended the Swedish championship title with the team and was the second-best internal scorer with 14 goals this season behind the once more successful Rosenberg. A few weeks later, the team was bottom of the group in the Champions League and missed the European Cup.

On January 7, 2015 Forsberg moved to Germany for the then second division club RB Leipzig . He signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2018. In his first season for RB Leipzig he went without a goal and missed promotion to the Bundesliga with the team . In the 2015/16 season he scored eight goals, prepared seven and became the best-rated player of the entire season in the trade magazine kicker . At the end of the season Forsberg rose with the team as runner-up in the Bundesliga. He made his Bundesliga debut on August 28, 2016 (1st matchday) in a 2-2 away game against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim . On September 13, 2017, Forsberg scored the first Champions League goal in Leipzig club history in a 1-1 draw against AS Monaco .

At the European Championships in France in 2016 , he was included in the Swedish squad . After the group stage, the team was bottom of the table and eliminated; Forsberg was used in all three games.

Two years later he was again in the Swedish squad for the 2018 World Cup . After three initial appearances in the preliminary round, he scored the decisive goal in the round of 16 to make it 1-0 against Switzerland, which made the team advance to the quarter-finals. Sweden lost 2-0 to England there.

On November 27, 2019, Forsberg scored the decisive brace in the Champions League against Benfica after 2-0 deficit, making RB Leipzig the knockout phase for the first time in their club history. Forsberg's equalizer fell in the sixth minute of stoppage time by head. About a month later he became German autumn champion with Leipzig .

successes

societies

RB Leipzig

Awards

Others

Forsberg comes from a soccer family and is nicknamed "Mini-Foppa" in Sweden. His grandfather Lennart was a professional footballer and was called "Foppa" - an abbreviation for Forsberg. When Emil's father Leif later also played for GIF Sundsvall , people called him “Lill-Foppa” ( little Forsberg ). All three made their debut for Sundsvall at the age of 17.

His wife Shanga played in the women's football department at RB Leipzig from 2016 to the beginning of 2018 and has ended her career. He and her have a daughter who was born in August 2018.

Web links

Commons : Emil Forsberg  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fotbolltransfers.com: "KLART: Emil Forsberg förlänger med GIF Sundsvall" (accessed on July 8, 2013)
  2. ↑ dagbladet.se: "Emil Forsberg missar resten av vårsäsongen" ( Memento from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 8, 2013)
  3. ^ Emil Forsberg klar för MFF ( Memento from January 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on July 8, 2013)
  4. ↑ Malmö Fotbollförening (ed.): Emil Forsberg lämnar Malmö FF. (No longer available online.) In: Malmö FF. January 7, 2015, archived from the original on March 5, 2017 ; Retrieved March 4, 2017 (Swedish).
  5. ↑ RB Leipzig: First winter newcomer! Emil Forsberg storms for the Red Bulls , January 7, 2015, accessed on January 7, 2015.
  6. ↑ Leipzig's ketchup bottle , interview on redbulletin.com , December 2015. Accessed April 7, 2016.
  7. ↑ Not a purely men's business. The first women's team competes in Brauseuniversum - goal: Bundesliga
  8. ↑ Women's winter timetable: Test match defeat in Jena!
  9. ↑ Emil Forsberg becomes a father, article on RBlive
personal data
SURNAME Forsberg, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Sundsvall , Sweden