Johan Wiland

Johan Wiland ( born January 24, 1981 in Borås ) is a Swedish football player. The goalkeeper, who made his debut in the Swedish national team in 2007, each won the Swedish and Danish championship. The country selection, he participated in two European Championship finals in part as a substitute goalkeeper.

  • 2.1 Title Win
  • 2.2 Personal Awards

Career

Success with IF Elfsborg and international debut

Wiland played in the youth initially at Brämhults IK. At the age of 16, he joined as a youth player at the beginning of 1998 to IF Elfsborg. There, the goalkeeper made ​​his debut in the season 2001 in the Allsvenskan and was immediately regulars. At the end of his first season in the Swedish Elite series, he also celebrated the first title of his career, since he was also in the final of the national cup against AIK on the side of Andreas Klarström, Anders Svensson and Fredrik Berglund for starting and after 10:9 Success on penalties, in which he saved two penalty kicks, celebrated the Cup victory. In 2003 he succeeded with the team the repetition of triumph when the team after a 2-0 win over Assyrsika FF by two goals from Lars Nilsson again lifted the trophy to Borås.

As a regular player Wiland was alongside players such as Lasse Nilsson, Hans Berggren, Kristoffer Arvhage and Samuel Holmén one of the guarantees that IF Elfsborg helped in the following years to relegation. Under coach Anders Grönhagen and its successor Magnus Haglund, he played for the seasons 2003 and 2004, each Erstligapartie before he injured himself in the summer of 2005.

After his return to the sports field Wiland was again in the 2006 regular player and remained throughout the growing season in twelve out of 26 games this season without conceding a goal. He helped the club to the side of Jari Ilola, Daniel and Stefan Ishizaki Mobaeck Lennart Johansson to win the Cup for the Swedish Championship. As a result, he was appointed national coach Lars Lagerback to the national team and made his debut on 18 January 2007 in the 1-2 defeat against Ecuador during a South American tour in the national jersey. In the following years he was irregular in the Swedish squad and fought with Rami Shaaban around the place as a second goalkeeper behind Andreas Isaksson in the national selection. As a second replacement, he was nominated by Lars Lagerback for the 2008 European Championship.

Exchange to Denmark

After the European Championships Wiland was his move known in the Danish Superliga with FC Copenhagen. By the end of the season he played with IF Elfsborg for the title, but had to settle for the runner-up title behind Kalmar FF before he began his five-year contract in Denmark.

At FC Copenhagen, he pushed the Australians Nathan Coe as the first substitute goalkeeper Jesper Christiansen of the root. By the end of the season in the summer of 2009, he had no league use, but could be happy about the double of the Danish league and cup. At the beginning of the following season, he was substitute before he nachrückte end of August after an injury Christiansen between the posts. He used the opportunity offered itself, and remained even after recovery of the competitors in the target. At season's end he thus took as starting player the league title, while Christiansen joined the club in the summer of 2010. As a result, he stayed in the extended squad of the national team for long stretches he sat in official matches for the national team as replacement of Isaksson on the bench.

In the UEFA Champions League 2010/11 Wiland reached the group stage on the side of Jesper Grønkjær, Oscar Wendt, William Kvist and Zdeněk Pospěch after the games in the Champions path against Rosenborg Trondheim on the away goals rule. There, the team of coach Ståle Solbakken was seen as an outsider, but reached the knockout stages. Behind the FC Barcelona, ​​against the domestic Parking managed a 1-1 draw, the team was second in the group. Against Chelsea difference Wiland with his colleagues, however, from the competition, he had denied all eight games over the entire playing time. Also in the parallel national championship, the club was successful. With 26 points ahead of runners-up Odense BK the team defended the championship.

After Solbakken had adopted towards Bundesliga, took Wilands compatriot Roland Nilsson as coach. Although placed himself under his guidance, the team at the top, yet the club replaced him in the winter break by Carsten Jensen. While he acted under both coaches as starting player, he had established himself in the national team as a substitute goalkeeper in the " Number 1" Isaksson. He came in two games of qualifying for Euro 2012 are used. After a successful qualification coach Erik Hamrén nominated him in mid-May in addition to the goalkeepers Isaksson and Pär Hansson for the finals.

Achievements

Title profits

  • Swedish Champion: 2006
  • Swedish Cup winners: 2001, 2003
  • Danish champion: 2009, 2010, 2011
  • Danish Cup winner: 2009

Personal Awards

  • Swedish Goalkeeper of the Year: 2008, 2010
  • Danish Goalkeeper of the Year: 2010, 2011
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