Jimmy Tamandi

Jimmy McCoy Tamandi ( born May 12, 1980 in Malmö) is a Swedish football player. The defender, who came in 2001 to a use in the Swedish national team, played in the course of his career in Sweden, Italy and Norway.

Career

Tamandi began playing football at Nydala IF. In 1992, he joined the youth section of Malmö FF. In 1998 he won at the side of Zlatan Ibrahimović and Kristian Haynes Swedish Youth Championship title and went through several Swedish youth selections. A year later he celebrated his debut in Allsvenskan. Although the league was missed at the end of the season and so the descent was clear in the Superettan, he remained loyal to the club. In the second division he established himself as a regular player and thus contributed to the direct re-emergence. Following the successful comeback, he played on 31 January 2001 an international match for the Swedish national team. Against the national faröische there was a 0-0 draw. After another year in the elite series for MFF he left the club.

2002 hired Tamandi to the league rivals AIK. In his first season for the new club he stood in all 26 games of the season in the starting lineup. In the following seasons, he had to fight with stronger competition, but still played most of season games from the beginning. At the end of the 2004 relegation was missed and Tamandi rose for the second time in his career from.

However Tamandi left the club and went to Italy. In Series B club Salernitana Calcio, he signed a contract. The club, however, had replaced its management and the newly employed club officials were not interested in his football skills. Therefore, he was discharged as soon as possible Potenza SC in the C series. Here he was hardly used and returned to AIK back to Sweden.

Towards the end of the 2005 he was still seven times used for AIK in the Superettan and thus also had a share in the revival of the tradition team in the premier league. In the Allsvenskan he could fight for a regular place. In summer 2007 there was a scandal when Tamandi a few days after losing a game with two supporters of his club made ​​a fight, as this appealed to him on the game. He was then told by Firman Boys, an Ultra- Fan club of the association, the " persona non grata ".

After the end of the 2007 Tamandi left the club free transfer and moved abroad again. New employer Lyn Oslo was in the Norwegian Tippeligaen. There he plays on the side of his countrymen Eddie Gustafsson and Johan Dahlin. Shortly before the start of his first season at the club from the capital of Norway he was injured but the cruciate ligament. As a result, he fell out until the end of the season and had no use in the season 2008.