Karl-Johan Johnsson

Karl -Johan " Kalle " Johnsson ( born January 28, 1990 in Ränneslöv, community Laholm ) is a Swedish football player. The goalkeeper made ​​his debut in 2008 for Halmstad BK in Allsvenskan, four years later, he first played in the Swedish national team.

Career

Johnsson played in his youth, first in Ränneslövs GIF. At the age of 15 years he moved to the youth department of Halmstad BK. There he made the charge of the Svenska Fotbollförbundet attention to themselves and debuted in the fall of 2007 in the Swedish junior national team. The following year he enlisted as third goalkeeper on the senior squad of his club. After the departure of Marcus Sahlmans in the summer he moved on and came after an injury Magnus Bahnes in the 1-2 defeat against Djurgårdens IF as a substitute in August of the year for his first game in professional football. In the following two seasons, he came as a substitute irregularly used, but maintained in the youth teams. In June 2009, the coaching duo Tommy Söderberg and Jörgen Lennartsson it sat for the first time in the Swedish U- 21 team, but Kristoffer Nordfeldt crystallized as a goalkeeper in the selection out. After the departure end of 2009 Bahnes Johnsson was only spare man behind Robin Malmqvist and slipped out of the squad of junior national team.

Before the start of the 2011 Halmstad BK had committed with Josep Clotet Ruiz a new coach who brought five players from Spain to the club. Among them was the goalkeeper Nauzet Pérez González, who guarded the gate in the first games of the season. After a dismissal on the seventh match Johnsson moved gradually stood - after a coaching change to Jens Gustafsson in July - to the end of the season as a regular player between the posts. The club won throughout the course of the season only three games and climbed as Table in the subprime Superettan from. Nevertheless, he had played back during the season in the U- 21 team and was appointed after the season for a January tour of coach Erik Hamrén as one of nine newcomers alongside his teammate Marcus Olsson in the senior team. 5-0 win against the Qatari national team he debuted in the selection jersey when he replaced in the second half, Johan Dahlin. In the subsequent season, he competed in all 30 games of the season between the posts at the side of Johan Blomberg, Johnny Lundberg, Christian Järdler and Gudjón Baldvinsson he reached the relegation place and rose after victories against the GIF Sundsvall right back on. In parallel, he was also at the U- 21 team regulars, with whom he reached the play- off matches to qualify for the U-21 European Championship in 2013 in the fall. The finals appearance missed the team by two defeats in the playoffs against the Italian National Selection.

In early November signed Johnsson a valid contract until the summer of 2016 at the Dutch club NEC Nijmegen.