Viktor Claesson

Claesson at a U-21 international match in June 2013

Viktor Claesson ( born January 2, 1992 Värnamo ) is a Swedish football player. The midfielder, who in 2012 won the Swedish championship, debuted in the same year in the Swedish national football team.

Career

Claesson began playing football at IFK Värnamo. There he went through the various youth teams and in 2008 was first appointed by the person in charge of the Svenska Fotbollförbundet the national jersey as he ran aground on the Swedish U-16 selection. In the same year he made his debut for the team competition in the third-tier Division 1, when he came to the club Gothenburg Västra Frölunda IF in the final league match of the third division season 2008 are used. In the following years he became the master power. Peppered with supervised by Jonas Thern, with young players like Simon Thern, Joseph Baffo and Atakora Lalawele team he won in the third league game time 2010 Südstaffel and rose to the second-class Superettan. Wed eleven goals this season and six assists belonged to the attacking midfielder to the guarantor of success.

In the second division Claesson counted continues to be the undisputed master players of the club. With 13 goals this season, he was a best simplistic internal scorer of the ten torerfolgreichsten players in the league, also he had prepared eight goals. Although he finished with the team the season on a relegation place, both Barrage games against third division Väsby United, however, were recovered and thus accomplished the league. In addition, he had established himself after his debut in 2010 in the course of 2011 under selection coach Håkan Ericson in the Swedish U -21 team and was also a regular in the squad, as the team from September, 2011 to qualify for the U-21 European Championship 2013 intervened. With his good performances during the season, he had also played in the notebook of coach Erik Hamrén and in December of this he was nominated alongside several newcomers for a January tour of the senior team to Qatar. 2-0 success against the national team of Bahrain 18 January 2012 with goals from Tobias Hysén and debutant Oscar Hiljemark he came on as a substitute for Stefan Ishizaki from the 73 minutes to his first race in the selection, be for new face at 5: 0 victory over Qatar five days later he crowned with the goal to make it 2-0 standings.

Previously Claesson had already announced shortly after the season in November 2011, his move to IF Elfsborg in the Allsvenskan. At the Club from Borås, he signed a contract with four years duration. Initially spare man, he played out here in the course of the season 2012 in the core team, at the end of the season he won at the side of Stefan Ishizaki, Oscar Hiljemark, Johan Larsson and Niklas Hult the Swedish championship title. In parallel, he was over long distances to the U- 21 team that qualified for the play- off matches for the European Championship 2013. He missed with the team against the Italian National Selection by two defeats finals appearance.