Marcus Berg

Marcus Berg (2012 )

Marcus Berg ( born August 17, 1986 in Torsby ) is a Swedish football player who is currently with Panathinaikos Athens under contract and can be used as a center forward.

He was in the 2007 top scorer in the Allsvenskan and 2009 scorer in the U- 21 European Championship finals, where he set a record with seven tournament goals.

Career

Beginnings in Sweden and scorer

Berg played in the Youth for IFK Velen and Torsby IF. In 2003, he joined IFK Göteborg in the youth department. In the 2005 he made his debut for IFK in Allsvenskan. In his second season he won a regular place and was appointed to the Swedish U -21: The 0-1 defeat against the Irish U -21 on 28 February 2006, he made his debut when he was in the Henok Goitom replaced at half-time. In the following games, he managed to establish itself in the national team and was regularly used.

In the 2007 Berg was a regular scorer in Allsvenskan. In summer 2008, Dutch club FC Groningen, who took in the Eredivisie, the obligation of the striker for 38 million Swedish crowns him committed known (which at that time about 4.1 million euros corresponded ). After 14 goals in 17 games this season, he left Sweden and in spite of missed playing time remaining on par with Razak Omotoyossi scorer in Allsvenskan.

Scorer in the Eredivisie and debut in the national team

On August 18, 2007 Mountain debuted in a 3-0 away win at FC Groningen at NAC Breda in the Eredivisie. In his third appearance on September 2, 2007 in a 2-2 away draw at Ajax Amsterdam, he scored his first two goals for his new employer. Also in the episode he wwar regular scorer and played into view by Lars Lagerback, coach of the Swedish national team. On 6 February, he made his debut with the shirt number 10 in the 0-0 draw against the Turkish national team in the starting lineup of the country selection. At the end of the season he led with 15 Erstligatoren - so he finished fifth in the scorer in the Eredivisie - the club to seventh place in the standings. In the subsequent playoff for a place in the UEFA Cup, he helped with two goals in the 3-1 win over FC Utrecht for the semi-finals against NEC Nijmegen in which the team failed despite another goal from mountain. However, he was not called by Lagerback in the squad of the Swedish selection for the 2008 European Championship; only after the tournament, he returned to the Nationalelfkader and denied on August 20 in the 2:3 defeat to France his second international match.

At the start of his second season in the Netherlands belonged to the mountain most prolific strikers. In September 2008, he scored a hat-trick his club 's 3-2 success in the Cup game at HVV Hollandia after a 0-2 residue in the next round. Thereupon reported in the fall of PSV Eindhoven and Ajax Amsterdam interested in signing on. Like last year, he eteablierte in the scoring charts in the front area and took in the statistics behind the 23 -goal Mounir El Hamdaoui and the 22 -goal Luis Suarez with 17 goals third place ahead of Roy Makaay, Danijel Pranjić and Blaise Nkufo. Not least because he established himself in the squad of the national team, in which he, however, was mainly considered in the face of competition from Zlatan Ibrahimović, Henrik Larsson and Johan Elmander as a supplement striker. Although he had played no role for the U -21 in the calendar year, the end of May nominated him coach Tommy Söderberg and Jörgen Lennartsson for the U- 21 European Championship finals in the summer in their own country, where he with until then seven A- international duty the most experienced player of the Swedish team was. The last 'A' game before the tournament, a 4-0 victory over Malta as part of the qualification for the 2010 World Cup, he scored his first international goal. The accuracy he could preserve for the tournament, with seven goals in four games, he won the adidas Golden Shoe as an award for the best goal scorers. In addition, UEFA awarded him as the best player of the tournament.

Move to the Bundesliga

On 18 July 2009, Berg wrote a contract with the German Bundesliga club Hamburger SV until 30 June 2014. Though he scored on his debut Bundesliga on August 15 in a 4-1 win over Borussia Dortmund 's first goal in the Bundesliga, in the course the season, however, the attacker could not establish himself in the starting line- up. At times in the starting lineup, where he also benefited from the injury problems of his colleagues Paolo Guerrero and Mladen Petric, he sat with half of its 30 season Games with Bruno Labbadia and his successor Ricardo Moniz especially after the signing of Ruud van Nistelrooy in the winter break on the bench.

On loan to the Netherlands

On 21 July 2010, the Hamburger SV Berg gave to the PSV Eindhoven until the end of the season. However, it also ran in the Netherlands not quite to measure. With his new club, he brought it while on 25 missions in the Eredivisie and was able to achieve eight goals, but he only played four times over the complete running time of 90 minutes.

Return to Hamburg

At the end of the lending agreement went mountain for the season 2011/12 back to Hamburger SV.

Others

Berg received due to its accuracy in youth based on the nickname Filip " Svarte - Filip " Johansson nicknamed Svarte - Marcus. His brother Jonathan is also a professional football player and plays for Varberg BoIS.

Title and Awards

In the club

Swedish Championship: 2007

Personal Awards

Scorer in the Allsvenskan in 2007 (together with Razak Omotoyossi )
Golden Shoe of the U-21 European Championship 2009
Best player of the U-21 European Championship 2009

2007 Allsvenskan 2005 Allsvenskan N.E.C. (football club) Filip Johansson Jonatan Berg Varbergs BoIS FC 2013–14 Superleague Greece Anastasios Lagos José Carlos Gonçalves Rodrigues Emir Bajrami Gordon Schildenfeld 1924–25 Allsvenskan 1925–26 Allsvenskan Carl-Erik Holmberg 1926–27 Allsvenskan 1927–28 Allsvenskan 1928–29 Allsvenskan Harry Lundahl 1929–30 Allsvenskan 1930–31 Allsvenskan 1931–32 Allsvenskan 1932–33 Allsvenskan 1933–34 Allsvenskan Sven Jonasson 1934–35 Allsvenskan Harry Andersson 1935–36 Allsvenskan 1936–37 Allsvenskan 1937–38 Allsvenskan 1938–39 Allsvenskan Erik Persson 1939–40 Allsvenskan 1940–41 Allsvenskan 1941–42 Allsvenskan Sven Jacobsson 1942–43 Allsvenskan Gunnar Nordahl 1943–44 Allsvenskan 1944–45 Allsvenskan 1945–46 Allsvenskan 1946–47 Allsvenskan Gunnar Gren 1947–48 Allsvenskan 1948–49 Allsvenskan 1949–50 Allsvenskan Ingvar Rydell 1950–51 Allsvenskan 1951–52 Allsvenskan Karl-Alfred Jacobsson 1952–53 Allsvenskan 1953–54 Allsvenskan 1954–55 Allsvenskan Kurt Hamrin 1955–56 Allsvenskan Sylve Bengtsson 1956–57 Allsvenskan Harry Bild 1957–58 Allsvenskan Bertil Johansson 1959 Allsvenskan 1960 Allsvenskan 1961 Allsvenskan 1962 Allsvenskan 1963 Allsvenskan Bo Larsson 1964 Allsvenskan 1965 Allsvenskan 1966 Allsvenskan Ove Kindvall 1967 Allsvenskan Dag Szepanski 1968 Allsvenskan 1969 Allsvenskan Reine Almqvist 1970 Allsvenskan 1971 Allsvenskan Roland Sandberg 1972 Allsvenskan 1973 Allsvenskan Jan Mattsson 1974 Allsvenskan 1975 Allsvenskan 1976 Allsvenskan Rutger Backe 1977 Allsvenskan Mats Aronsson 1978 Allsvenskan Tommy Berggren 1979 Allsvenskan 1980 Allsvenskan 1981 Allsvenskan 1982 Allsvenskan Dan Corneliusson 1983 Allsvenskan 1984 Allsvenskan 1985 Allsvenskan Billy Lansdowne 1986 Allsvenskan 1987 Allsvenskan Lars Larsson (footballer) 1988 Allsvenskan Martin Dahlin 1989 Allsvenskan 1990 Allsvenskan 1991 Allsvenskan Kennet Andersson 1992 Allsvenskan 1993 Allsvenskan Henrik Bertilsson Mats Lilienberg 1994 Allsvenskan Niclas Kindvall 1995 Allsvenskan Niklas Skoog 1996 Allsvenskan Andreas Andersson 1997 Allsvenskan Dan Sahlin 1998 Allsvenskan Arild Stavrum 1999 Allsvenskan 2000 Allsvenskan 2001 Allsvenskan 2002 Allsvenskan 2003 Allsvenskan 2004 Allsvenskan Markus Rosenberg 2006 Allsvenskan 2008 Allsvenskan 2009 Allsvenskan 2010 Allsvenskan Alexander Gerndt 2011 Allsvenskan 2012 Allsvenskan Abdul Majeed Waris 2013 Allsvenskan Imad Khalili

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