Johan Sjöstrand

Johan Sjöstrand

Johan Sjöstrand (July 2015)
Player information
Nickname	"Hubbe"
birthday	February 26, 1987
place of birth	Skovde , Sweden
citizenship	Swedish
height	1.95 m
Playing position	goalkeeper
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Bjerringbro-Silkeborg
Jersey number	12
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-2003	HK Country
2003-2005	IFK Skövde HK
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
2005-2009	IFK Skövde HK
2009-2010	SG Flensburg-Handewitt
2010–2012	FC Barcelona
2012-2013	Aalborg Håndbold
2013-2015	THW Kiel
2015-2020	MT Melsungen
2020–	Bjerringbro-Silkeborg
National team
Debut on	November 2008
against	Poland
	Games (goals)
Sweden	96 (0)
As of August 25, 2020

Johan Sjöstrand (born February 26, 1987 in Skövde ) is a Swedish handball player .

Career

society

Sjöstrand moved from HK Country to IFK Skövde HK in 2003 . From 2005 the goalkeeper stood between the posts a total of 70 times in the Elitserien . In the 2009/10 season he played for the German Bundesliga club SG Flensburg-Handewitt . Then Sjöstrand moved to the Spanish club FC Barcelona , where he succeeded David Barrufet . With Barcelona he won the championship in 2011 and 2012 and the EHF Champions League in 2011 . After his contract with Barcelona was terminated in September 2012, he signed a contract with Danish first division club Aalborg Håndbold . With Aalborg he won the Danish championship in 2013. From 2013 Sjöstrand played for the German record champions THW Kiel , with whom he won the German championship in 2014 and 2015 and the DHB Supercup in 2014. At the beginning of 2015 Sjöstrand fell ill with Malta fever , which is why he had to take a break from March 2015 until the end of the 2014/15 season. From the 2015/16 season he guarded the gate of MT Melsungen .

For the 2020/21 season, Sjöstrand moved to the Danish first division club Bjerringbro-Silkeborg , with whom he signed a three-year contract.

National team

Sjöstrand has played 96 games for the Swedish national team . Previously he was active in the Swedish youth and junior national team. In 2007 he won the Junior World Championship with the national team. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he won the silver medal with Sweden.

Others

Sjöstrand, who is involved in six trotters , won the equivalent of 660,000 euros in horse racing in 2013 within a month.

Bundesliga record

season	society	Division	Games	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
2009/10	SG Flensburg-Handewitt	Bundesliga	31	0	0	0
2013/14	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	33	0	0	0
2014/15	THW Kiel	Bundesliga	26th	1	0	1
2015/16	MT Melsungen	Bundesliga	25th	1	0	1
2016/17	MT Melsungen	Bundesliga	28	3	0	3
2017/18	MT Melsungen	Bundesliga	29	2	0	2
2018/19	MT Melsungen	Bundesliga	34	0	0	0
2009-2019	total	Bundesliga	206	7th	0	7th

Source: player profile at THW Kiel

Web links

Commons : Johan Sjöstrand  - collection of images

• Profile at THW Kiel
• Johan Sjöstrand in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ handbollslandslaget.se: Statistics of the Swedish Handball Federation , accessed on August 25, 2020
2. ↑ Sjöstrand finds a new club
3. ↑ thw-handball.de: Johan Sjöstrand and Nikolaj Jacobsen with Aalborg Danish champions from May 27, 2013, accessed on February 8, 2015
4. ↑ Johan Sjöstrand is a member of the "zebra herd" from July
5. ↑ hna.de: MT goalkeeper Johan Sjöstrand has recovered from Malta fever on July 16, 2015, accessed on August 9, 2015
6. ↑ handball-world.com: Transfer Coup of MT Melsungen: North Hesse commit number 1 of THW Kiel from December 21, 2014, accessed on December 21, 2014
7. ↑ handball-world.news: Johan Sjöstrand leaves Bundesliga after the season on September 7, 2019, accessed on September 8, 2019
8. ↑ SG vies for a Swedish jewel
9. ↑ Gamer Sjöstrand: "Simply amazing" , kicker.de
10. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: Johan Sjöstrand , accessed on September 8, 2019