Emil Johansson

This article is about the Swedish soccer player. For the Swedish cross-country skier of the same name, see Emil Johansson (cross-country skier)

Emil Johansson
Personnel
birthday	August 11, 1986
place of birth	Karlskoga ,  Sweden
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1999	Karlskoga SK
2000-2004	Degerfors IF
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005-2006	Degerfors IF	48 (4)
2007-2009	Hammarby IF	56 (2)
2010-2011	Molde FK	31 (0)
2011-2013	FC Groningen	8 (0)
2014–	Sandnes Ulf	0 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2002	Sweden U-16	3 (0)
2004	Sweden U18	5 (0)
2005	Sweden U-19	2 (0)
2007-2009	Sweden U-21	15 (0)
2010	Sweden	2 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of August 1, 2014 2 As of August 1, 2014

Emil Johansson (born August 11, 1986 in Karlskoga ) is a Swedish football player . The defender , who with the Swedish U-21 team at the U-21 European Championship 2009 finals took part in their own country and in the following year for the senior national team debut, scored the Goal of the Year 2009 in Sweden.

Career

Career start in Sweden

Johansson started playing football at Karlskoga SK in his hometown. At the age of 13, he moved to the youth department of the traditional club Degerfors IF in 2000 . Here he went through the individual youth teams and moved up to the squad of the men's team in 2005. Right away he was able to establish himself in the regular formation in the Superettan and within two years he was in the starting eleven in 43 of 60 possible league games.

Before the start of the first division season in 2007 , Johansson followed his coach Tony Gustavsson and moved to Hammarby IF in the Allsvenskan . The full-back signed a four-year contract with the Stockholm club. Here he was also able to play in the regular eleven and made his debut in June in the 0-0 draw against the Swiss U-21 team in the jersey of the Swedish junior national team. Due to injury, however, he missed large parts of the season. After his return to the field in March 2008, he played his way back into the starting line-up at his club and returned to the junior national team later in the season.

In April 2009, Johansson scored his first first division goal against IF Elfsborg in a 1-1 draw at the start of the season; this shot from a distance of 30 meters was voted Goal of the Year at the end of the year. By the summer break he was used in eleven of the twelve games and aroused the interest of foreign clubs such as Ajax Amsterdam and PSV Eindhoven . At the end of May, the coaches of the U-21 national team, Tommy Söderberg and Jörgen Lennartsson , nominated him for the U-21 European Championship finals in their own country in the summer. In the course of the tournament, he was used in all four games before he failed with the team in the semi-finals on the English U-21 national team on penalties .

Change abroad

At the end of the season, which Johansson ended with his club in the last place in the table as a relegation, he left his home country. In January 2010 he signed a four-year contract with the Norwegian club Molde FK . Before the start of the season, national coach Erik Hamrén called him for an international trip for the senior team to the Middle East. In the first international match of the year against Oman without playing time on the bench, he was in the defense chain in the 1-1 draw on January 23, 2010 at the side of the other debutants Joel Ekstrand and Michael Almebäck . In the Tippeligen he was a regular on the defensive for much of the 2010 season and managed to stay in the league in eleventh place alongside Kristoffer P. Vatshaug , Baye Djiby Fall , Thomas Holm and his compatriots Björn Runström and Mattias Moström . Under the new coach Ole Gunnar Solskjær , the club established itself in the first half of the following season in the front of the table, but he decided to change clubs in the summer of 2011.

Johansson joined the Dutch honorary division FC Groningen . At his new club, where he inherited his compatriot Fredrik Stenman , who had emigrated to Belgium, on the defensive position, he signed a four-year contract. Due to the regulations of the transfer system , he was only eligible to play for his new club from August 1st, but after an initial injury he was unable to assert himself at his new club. In two and a half years at the Dutch club, he only made eight appearances in the championship.

In January 2014 Johansson moved back to Norway and joined Sandnes Ulf . Here, too, the beginning was overshadowed after a knee injury in preparation.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ otbollskanalen.se: "Emil Johansson gjorde årets mål:" Blir ett likadant Nästa säsong "" (accessed on January 10, 2010)
2. ↑ fotbollsverige.se: "Emil Johansson klar för Hammarby" (accessed on June 16, 2009)
3. ↑ aftonbladet.se: "Storklubbar jagar Emil Johansson:" Har gått bra "" (accessed on June 16, 2009)
4. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "U21 gentleman: EM troops uttagen" (accessed on June 16, 2009)
5. ↑ aftonbladet.se: "Emil Johansson klar för Molde" (accessed on January 10, 2010)
6. ↑ nwt.se: "Emil Johansson clear for Groningen" (accessed on July 5, 2011)
7. ↑ expressen.se: "Emil Johansson från Groningen till Norge" (accessed on August 7, 2014)

Web links

• Emil Johansson on the Hammarby IF website
• Emil Johansson in the database of weltfussball.de