Marcus Ekenberg
Marcus Ekenberg (born 16 June 1980) is a Swedish football player. The striker was top scorer of the 2009 Superettan in the second division season.
Career
Ekenberg began playing football at Mjallby AIF. At the Club from the province of Blekinge län he went through the various youth teams, before he made his debut in 1997 for the first team in the second division. In the season of 1999 he contributed eleven goals this season in reaching the third table space. While it has established itself in parallel in the youth selections of Svenska Fotbollförbundet, he thus aroused the interest höherklassiger clubs.
To Erstligaspielzeit 2000 Ekenberg moved to Helsingborgs IF. There, however, the striker came under coach Nanne mountain beach only sporadically used. At the beginning of the following season, he was only to supplement the players, so he was loaned to his former club in the summer. With Mjallby AIF he reached in the second division season 2001 the relegation place, in the two games, the club failed to IFK Norrköping. After his return to Helsingborgs IF he came under new coach Soren Cratz more use than its predecessor, so he also decided after his farewell to the season end in the direction Mjallby AIF to the club change.
By now drittklassig antretenden club Ekenberg missed in the 2003 season as winners of Division 2 Södra Götaland not until the rise of games against GAIS 's re-emergence. Once in the following season of the season victory was repeated, he sat down by the team against Husqvarna FF and returned to the second division. In the Superettan he established himself as a regular scorer and helped the club with ten goals this season in the 2005 to relegation. After every 15 goals in the two following seasons, he finished second in the 2008 behind Jonas Henriksson second in the scoring charts and was thus each guarantor, that the association was set in the middle of the second division table.
In the 2009 Ekenberg formed with Erton Fejzullahu, who left the club in the summer, David and Johan Svensson Löfquist the offensive of clubs who stormed a total of 60 goals this season to first place in the league. To a rebirth of the club in the Allsvenskan after relegation at the end of the season in 1985, he contributed 19 goals this season and eleven assists, so he was second division top scorer along with Mattias Adelstam. In the Erstligaspielzeit 2010, he was with his nine goals and seven assists the strongest offensive players in the squad of southern Sweden. Special feature in this season: After several years in which he was always from the beginning on the court, he has long been a substitute in a match as a substitute in the game first time in 2010. On the side of Tobias Grahn, Patrik Rosengren and Mattias Asper he nevertheless asserted itself in the following years over long distances as a regular player and contributed as a regular scorer for relegation at. After he had been only a reserve player again at the beginning of the 2012, there were rumors about a temporary farewell, ultimately, he extended his contract by the end of August three more years.