Rasmus Bengtsson
Rasmus Bengtsson ( born June 26, 1986 in Malmö) is a Swedish football player. The central defender made his debut in 2009 in the Swedish national team.
Career
Breakthrough in Sweden
Bengtsson comes from the youth of Malmö FF. As he there initially could not prevail, the central defender was loaned together with Andreas Wihlborg at Trelleborg FF. In the second division both match practice should collect. At the end of the 2006 season, in which he came in 19 games for use and scoring two goals, he could celebrate with the club promotion to the Allsvenskan and was taken from TFF finally under contract.
In his first season in the Swedish Elite Series Bengtsson managed ten times the leap into the starting lineup and could be recommended for the Swedish U21 national team. Shortly before the game against the youth team of Ireland in October 2007, he was injured, however, so he had to give up a bet and was ironically replaced by his club mates Wihlborg. In February 2008, he was at a tournament in Portugal back in the squad of the national selection, but was not used in the 1-0 victory over the Ukrainian U21 team. At the final game of the tournament on February 6 against the Portuguese Under-21 team, he came to his debut, but could not prevent the 0-3 defeat.
After Bengtsson in the 2008 could win a regular place in TFF and in 28 of the 30 season games was used and also was able to compete in the Under-21s, he attracted the attention of the competition. First, there was speculation about a transfer to FC Copenhagen and reported a transfer to the Swedish League rivals Hammarby IF, ultimately he decided to wait at least until the summer transfer window after the U-21 European Championship and stay with TFF.
On 16 December 2008 was coach Lars Lagerback the squad for a U.S. tour with the Swedish national team known to the newcomers as well as other Rasmus Elm or Patrik Bengtsson Ingelsten also belongs. On 28 January the following year he made his debut in a 1-0 victory over the Mexican national team with a goal by Alexander Farnerud on the side of Patrik Anttonen, Mattias Bjärsmyr and Adam Johansson in the defense chain of country selection. In the following season he was in both the League and the U- 21 team to the regular players, so that by the end of May, the team coach Tommy Söderberg and Jörgen Lennartsson nominated him for the European Under-21 Championship finals in the summer in their own country, where he is one of eleven players with senior international experience was. During the tournament, he came in all four games available for use until it failed with the selection in the semi-finals on penalties to England.
Move abroad
For the Bundesliga season 2009/10 Bengtsson joined for about 500,000 euros to the German Bundesliga club Hertha BSC. For the Berlin club with which he is " 22" was given the shirt number he gave in qualifying for the Europa League 2009/10 against Brøndby IF his competitive debut. In the 1-2 defeat against 1 FSV Mainz 05 on Matchday 5 he first played in the Bundesliga. September 17, 2009 Bengtsson made his European Cup debut when he was in first Europa League group match against FK Ventspils in the starting line-up and was not replaced. However, under coach Lucien Favre and his successor Funkel he was at best sporadic use. For the Berlin he came to a total of six missions in the Bundesliga. The game against Ventspils was also his only Europa League use.
Bengtsson joined the 2010/11 season for FC Twente Enschede, who had previously won the Dutch league title. There he sat on the bench first and only made headlines when he in training his countryman Emir Bajrami injured in mid-September. Had he makes his debut in October against ADO Den Haag in the Eredivisie, he sat in the episode still mainly based on the substitutes' bench and was not at all on some match days in the Squad. As a Dutch master Enschede was qualified directly for the Champions League. Bengtsson made his debut in the Champions League on 20 October 2010 when he came off the bench in the third group game against Werder Bremen 27 minutes for Peter Wisgerhof. On November 2 2010 Bengtsson came in the fourth group match, also against SV Werder, for use; this time he was in the starting eleven. It should also be his most recent deployment in the Champions League. In the league he came in ten games for use. In the following season, there were 13 games, with Bengtsson played in eight games this about 90 minutes. In the Champions League qualifying Twente failed to Benfica, where Bengtsson in any game was used. In the Europa League Bengtsson came to four inserts.
That Bengtsson was only second choice under coach Steve McClaren, also showed up at the start of 2012/ 13 when he had to give his former shirt number " 5 " to the retrieved from NAC Breda Robbert Schilder and received the "17". At the beginning of the season he has also been used infrequently, but worked out in the fall of a regular place.
Achievements
- Dutch Cup winner: 2011
- Dutch runners-up: 2011