Martin Dahlin

Martin Dahlin
Martin Dahlin, 2014
Personnel
Surname	Dan Martin Nataniel Dahlin
birthday	April 16, 1968
place of birth	Uddevalla ,  Sweden
size	184 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
	Lunds BK
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1987-1991	Malmö FF	87 (45)
1991-1996	Borussia Monchengladbach	106 (50)
1996	AS Roma	3 0(0)
1996-1997	Borussia Monchengladbach	19 (10)
1997-1998	Blackburn Rovers	27 0(4)
1998-1999	Hamburger SV	8 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1991-1997	Sweden	60 (29)
1 Only league games are given.

Dan Martin Nataniel Dahlin (born April 16, 1968 in Uddevalla ) is a former Swedish football player . His father is from Venezuela , his mother from Sweden .

Career

Dahlin played for the Swedish national team when they finished third at the 1994 World Cup . Dahlin scored four goals in this tournament. At the European Championships in 1992 in his own country, he and his team made it to the semi-finals. He also took part in the 1988 Olympic Games with the Swedish selection .

In 1993 he was voted Swedish Player of the Year. He played for Malmö FF , Borussia Mönchengladbach , AS Roma , Blackburn Rovers and Hamburger SV .

His resemblance to the American football player OJ Simpson gave him the nickname "OJ" during the World Cup in the USA.

With Borussia Mönchengladbach, for whom he scored 60 goals in 125 games, he became the German Cup winner in 1995. In 1996 he moved to AS Roma, but returned a short time later to Mönchengladbach and became the most successful striker of the second half of the 1996/97 season with 10 goals. In 1997 he moved to the Blackburn Rovers, where he had to end the season prematurely due to an injury in a training game. After moving to Hamburger SV, Dahlin only made a few appearances at the end of 1998 and then ended his career.

After the career

Today Martin Dahlin works as a player agent for several Swedish national players, including Markus Rosenberg . Dahlin lives in Monaco.

successes

with Malmö FF

• 1988 Swedish champion
• Swedish cup winner 1989

with Borussia Mönchengladbach

• DFB Cup winner 1995

with the Swedish national team

• 3rd place at the 1994 World Cup in the USA

Individual awards

• Allsvenskan top scorer in 1988
• Sweden's footballer of the year 1993
• Classification as world class in the ranking of German football : Summer 1994

Web links

• Martin Dahlin in the database of weltfussball.de
• Martin Dahlin in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Biography in the Munzinger sports archive
• Martin Dahlin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Note in: Echt- das Stadionmagazin, issue 45 of September 29, 2012, p. 41