Marcus Ekenberg

Marcus Ekenberg
Personnel
birthday	June 16, 1980
size	188 cm
position	attack
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1997-2000	Mjällby AIF	62 0(22)
2000	Helsingborgs IF	9 00(1)
2001	→ Mjällby AIF (loan)	23 00(8)
2001	Helsingborgs IF	0 00(0)
2002	→ Mjällby AIF (loan)	8 00(1)
2002	Helsingborgs IF	12 00(1)
2003–	Mjällby AIF	269 ​​(121)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2000	Sweden U-21	1 00(0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2012

Marcus Ekenberg (born June 16, 1980 ) is a Swedish football player . The striker was Superettan's top scorer in the 2009 second division season .

Career

Ekenberg started playing football at Mjällby AIF . At the club from the province of Blekinge län he went through the individual youth teams before making his debut for the first team in the second division in 1997. In the 1999 season he contributed to reaching third place in the table with eleven goals this season. While establishing himself in the youth selection of Svenska Fotbollförbundet at the same time , he aroused the interest of higher-class clubs.

For the first division season 2000 Ekenberg moved to Helsingborgs IF . There, however, the striker was only used sporadically under coach Nanne Bergstrand . Even at the beginning of the following season he was only one of the supplementary players, so that he was loaned to his old club in the summer. With Mjällby AIF he reached the relegation place in the second division season 2001 , in both games the club failed to IFK Norrköping . After his return to Helsingborgs IF he came under the new coach Sören Cratz more often than his predecessor, so that after his departure at the end of the season, he also decided to move to Mjällby AIF.

With the now third-rate club, Ekenberg missed promotion in the 2003 season as the season winner of Division 2 Södra Götaland only in the promotion games against GAIS . After the season win was repeated in the following season, he prevailed with the team against Husqvarna FF and returned to the second division. In the Superettan he established himself as a regular goalscorer and helped the club to stay up with ten goals this season in the 2005 season. After 15 goals in each of the following two seasons, he finished in the 2008 season behind Jonas Henriksson in second place in the goalscorer list and was thus each guarantor that the club could establish itself in the middle of the second division table.

In the 2009 season, Ekenberg formed the club's offensive with Erton Fejzullahu , who left the club in the summer, David Löfquist and Johan Svensson , which stormed to first place in the league with a total of 60 goals this season. For the club's resurgence in the Allsvenskan after relegation at the end of the 1985 season , he contributed 19 goals this season and eleven assists, so that he and Mattias Adelstam became the second division shooter . In the first division season in 2010 he was with his nine goals and seven assists the most attacking player in the squad of southern Sweden. Special feature this season: After several years in which he was always on the field from the start, he was substituted on in a match in 2010 for the first time in a long while. At the side of Tobias Grahn , Patrik Rosengren and Mattias Asper , he nevertheless maintained himself as a regular player for long stretches and as a regular goal scorer contributed to staying in the league. After he had only been a supplementary player at the beginning of the 2012 season , there were occasional rumors of a farewell, ultimately he extended his contract for three more years at the end of August.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fotbolltransfers.com: "Officiellt: Ekenberg och Nicklasson förlänger med Mjällby AIF" (accessed on January 8, 2013)

Web links

• Marcus Ekenberg in the database of weltfussball.de
• Marcus Ekenberg in the database of svenskfotboll.se