Johan Elmander
Elmander (2012 )
Johan Erik Calvin Elmander (born 27 May 1981 in Alingsås ) is a Swedish football player. The striker, who made his debut in the Swedish national team in 2002, played in the course of his career outside his home in the Netherlands, Denmark, France and England. Since the summer of 2011, he is the Turkish first division side Galatasaray under contract, but was awarded for season 2013/14 at Norwich City.
Career
Association
Elmander started playing football at Holmalunds IF in his hometown Alingsås. For the third division striker made his debut in 1997 in the men's team. Several European and national teams such as Aston Villa, FC Barcelona and IFK Göteborg were aware of the 17 -year-old talent, but he moved to within Sweden Örgryte IS in the Allsvenskan. There, he scored in his first season, he finished with two goals and the Gothenburg club to fourth place in the Swedish Elite Series. In the summer of 2000 he left the club to go for a transfer fee of 25 million Swedish crowns in the Dutch Eredivisie.
First steps abroad
New employer of 19 -year-old junior player was the top club Feyenoord Rotterdam. Here he met Bonaventure Kalou and Jon Dahl Tomasson, but still came in his first season in half of the season games are used. As were committed in the following season Pierre van Hooijdonk and Robin van Persie, his situation hardly improved. However, he came off the bench in the final of the UEFA Cup 2001/ 02 Feyenoord coach Bert van Marwijk and thus contributed to the 3-2 win over Borussia Dortmund and thus the title.
Nevertheless, Elmander 2002 after he had come early in the season once again for Feyenoord used, given back to his home, where he signed with Djurgårdens IF. He could enforce directly as the root force and contributed in the second half of the 2002 season to winning the league title. In addition, he was with the club in the cup final, which was won by a goal by Louay Chanko golden goal. At the beginning of the following season he presented his Torgefahr proof, but left the club, the champion was again end of the season, in the summer, because of the loan contract expired. However, Feyenoord gave him a second time, this time in the Netherlands, where he found refuge at NAC Breda. Here he established himself as a regular player, but was not as accurate as in Sweden.
For the 2004/2005 season Elmander has been committed by the Danish club Brøndby IF, where he signed a four year contract. With the club he won the Double in 2005 from the Danish league and cup and was named player of the year at the club at the end of the season. In his second season in Denmark he scored 13 goals this season.
In France and England
After the World Cup Elmander joined the French first division club FC Toulouse. The French paid a transfer fee of five million euros, which was assign Brøndby IF in part to Feyenoord. For his new club he met in his first two seasons at double digit rates in the league.
Following the tournament in June 2008 Elmander signed a three year contract with the English Premier League club Bolton Wanderers, who took him for a transfer fee of ten million pounds under contract. Part of the transfer was doing a simultaneous exchange of Daniel Braaten of the Wanderers FC to Toulouse. In his new employer, he managed to establish itself immediately as a regular player in attack alongside Kevin Davies. On the side of Gary Cahill, Matthew Taylor, Jussi Jääskeläinen and Kevin Nolan, he finished with the team, despite the low budget available a place in the back of the midfield. Reinforced with players like Zat Knight, Lee Chung- yong and Ivan Klasnić could not build on the good runny season and slipped into the relegation battle, especially since Elmander get only two Torerfolge turn of the year the club. Therefore, the club coach Gary Megson replaced on 30 December by Owen Coyle, under whose direction the team distanced himself up to the end of the season to nine points from the relegation zone. At times, it had to Elmander on the substitutes ' bench, but at the beginning of season 2010/11 he was back strain force. He shone as a regular scorer and stood briefly at the top of the scoring list. Thanks to his good performances he was voted player of the month of November and considered in the following as a possible change candidate in the winter transfer period.
Change in Turkey
On 19 May 2011 was officially that Elmander will play from the 2011/12 season for the Turkish first division side Galatasaray, where he signed a contract until 2014 and in the game debuted on 18 September 2011 against Samsunspor, as he, after 61. minutes for the injured Emmanuel Eboué was substituted in this game and also scored his first goal for equal the club.
National
Despite his reserve player in Rotterdam he arrived on 13 February 2002 on his debut in the Swedish national team, when he came off the bench in a 2-2 draw against Greece for Marcus Allbäck. In the summer of 2004, he was one of the pillars of the Swedish Under-21 team at the 2004 European Championships, in which the team failed only in the semi-finals and eventually finished fourth. After a good season for Brøndby IF in the summer of 2006, he came into the squad for the World Cup 2006. During that tournament, he came to two short sessions. Because of its good performance in Toulouse appointed coach Lars Lagerback Elmander in the summer of 2008 for the 2008 European Championship, the tournament turned out to be disappointing, although Elmander was in all three group games on the field. After a 2-0 win over defending champions Greece with goals from Zlatan Ibrahimović and Petter Hansson to kick off the team lost the following games against Russia and the subsequent title holders Spain and retired at the end of the group stage.
Achievements
- UEFA Cup: 2002
- Swedish Champion 2002
- Swedish Cup winner: 2002
- Danish Champion: 2005
- Danish Cup Winner 2005
- Turkish champion: 2012, 2013
- Turkish football Super Cup Winner: 2012, 2013