Pontus Engblom
Engblom in training with AIK (2010)
Pontus Engblom (born 3 November 1991 Sundsvall ) is a Swedish football player. The striker played in his career in his home country and in Norway.
Career
Engblom comes from the youth of the IFK Sundsvall. Even as a teenager, he ran in the 2007 on the adult team of the club in the fourth division Division 2 and won in the course of the season a regular place. At the end of the season he went down with the club in the fünftklassigen Division 3, where he shone but as a regular goalscorer. With 26 goals this season in 21 games disputed by the striker - for the club from Västernorrland County it still was not enough for direct re-emergence as a table Fourth - he woke up after the season in the fall of 2008, the interest of clubs höherklassiger to an obligation.
End of October 2008 Engblom decided to change to the traditional club AIK in the Allsvenskan. After he had been used in some pre-season games for the Premiership season 2009, he stood first in the cooperation Väsby United club in the squad. Finally, he made his debut on 25 May 2009 AIK as a substitute for Daniel Tjernström during a 0-1 defeat against Gefle IF in the highest Swedish league. He was the 500th player who had accrued for the club in Allsvenskan since the founding of the League in 1924. After another short Allsvenskan use the following week he returned to the summer break to Väsby United.
After Engblom from regular technical reasons in the second half of the season in 2009 could no longer play for Väsby United, AIK gave him in August to the third division Västerås SK. There he ran until the end of September in four games, scoring four goals. Then he returned to AIK to participate with the youth team to the championship finals, but in the team was eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Also in preparation for the 2010 season Engblom ran back regularly for AIK. He sat at winning the Supercupen with a goal by Antônio Flávio nor the complete season on the bench, he came a short time later at the side of Miran Burgič Martin Kayongo - Mutumba and Antônio Flávio his first stakes from the beginning in the highest Swedish game class. Finally, he helped the team of coach Mikael Stahre as a substitute in the first round of the Svenska Cupen with his first competitive goal for AIK for 3-1 final score after extra Östers IF to progress in the competition, but could not prevail permanently and played back from time to time for the cooperation partner Väsby United. After the summer break, he ran for AIK in the European Cup. Could he in qualifying for the UEFA Champions League 2010/11 still contribute to the Luxembourg representative Jeunesse Esch as a scorer to progress, he missed the team against Rosenborg BK from Norway a place in the play-off round. Then he staggered under the now committed coach Alex Miller between starters and substitutes bench. In October of that year he returned again briefly back to Västerås SK. In March of the following year he extended his contract with AIK ahead to 2013, but was loaned again - this time to the second division club GIF Sundsvall. There he quickly established himself as a regular player and made especially with Fredrik Holster torgefährliches a strike partnership. With 13 goals this season, he was ultimately one of the ten most goals in the league.
After his return to AIK of the year Engblom did not belong to the tribe continues to play at his club. Although he scored in the 1-0 home game win against IFK Göteborg his first league goal for the club, but he was up to the summer only in six games in the Allsvenskan in use. As a result, several clubs were interested in signing. He left in mid-July and Sweden joined the Norwegian club FK Haugesund in the Tippeligaen.