Jonas Lantto

Jonas Lantto (born 22 May 1987) is a Swedish football player. The attacking midfielder, nicknamed " Norrlands Maradona " bears due to its size of 1.69 meters, went through some Swedish junior national teams and debuted in 2008 in the Swedish U- 21 team.

Career

Lantto began playing football at Kiruna FF. There he fell into the youth on the charge of Svenska Fotbollförbundet and came in 2004 in the Swedish U-17 Landesasuwahl first time in the National Jersey used. In 2006 he was appointed to the men's team of the club and made his debut in the third-class division1 Norra. Before the 2007 season he moved to Gefle IF in the Allsvenskan. Right off the bat of young players could establish itself in Erstligakader and initially came on as a substitute for regular use, was found in his debut season but six times in the starting line-up again.

After Lantto had established itself in the junior national teams and also in the Allsvenskan regularly came into use, nominated Jörgen Lennartsson and Tommy Söderberg, the coach of the Swedish U- 21 team, the midfielder for a short tournament in Sweden in early 2008. On February 6, the year he made ​​his debut in the 0-3 defeat against the Portuguese Under-21 team in the Swedish U21 national team. Although he had won in the club team in the middle of the 2008 on the side of Amadou Jawo, Yannick Bapupa and Hans Berggren on the offensive a regular place, he could not establish himself in the national team itself. With eight scorer points yet he was also in the following year, in addition Berggren and Jawo the most striking offensive players of the club and helped him with reaching the tenth table space to re relegation. Already in the course of the season he extended his contract, which was now valid until the end of 2010. Even then he remained the team coached by Per Olsson faithful, in the summer of 2011, he extended his contract again in the long term.