Marcus Sahlman

Marcus Sahlman
Sahlman in 2009
Personal information
Full name Marcus Verner Sahlman
Date of birth (1985-01-02) 2 January 1985 (age 39)
Place of birth Umeå, Sweden
Height 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
–2002 Halmstads BK
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2008 Halmstads BK 26 (0)
2007 → Trelleborgs FF (loan) 11 (0)
2008 → Trelleborgs FF (loan) 14 (0)
2009–2014 Tromsø 87 (0)
2014–2015 Norrköping 8 (0)
2015 IS Halmia 11 (0)
International career
2000–2001 Sweden U17 11 (0)
2002–2003 Sweden U19 13 (0)
2004–2006 Sweden U21 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marcus Sahlman (born 2 January 1985) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as goalkeeper.

Career

Sahlman started his career with Halmstads BK, where he made his debut in 2004 in an away game against Malmö FF as forward rather than his usual position of goalkeeper.[1] During 2006 season he played about half the league matches and Conny Johansson played the rest. After the club signed Magnus Bahne in 2007, Sahlman demanded to be put on the transfer list as he wanted to play first team football. He tried out for AGOVV Apeldoorn in the Netherlands but failed to secure a contract,[2] he then went on loan to Trelleborgs FF for the rest of the season.[3]

In 2008, in the absence of Magnus Bahne, he started all the league games until after the Euro 2008 championship and the return of Bahne, when he again became second choice to Bahne.

On 2 July 2008, it was reported that he was in Norway trying out for Tippeligaen team Tromsø IL.[4] On 13 July 2008, Tromsø IL confirmed signing him[5] in spite of competition from other teams,[6] and on 14 July this was confirmed by Halmstads BK,[7] he signed a three-year contract starting 1 January 2009 with no compensation fee for Halmstads BK as he transferred under the Bosman ruling.

On 19 July 2008, Halmstads BK reported that he would go on loan rest of the season to Trelleborgs FF.[8]

Sahlman missed out on most of the 2009 season due to injury. Having started the 2010 season as second choice for Tromsø IL, he soon displaced Sead Ramović as first choice and was named man of the match by the supporters club[9] after the match against VIF. Tromsø IL did not lose a single match when Sahlman played. This has led Tromsø IL's manager Per-Mathias Høgmo to openly speak out in the media and say that Sahlman should be Sweden's first choice goalkeeper.[10]

Before the team's match against Rosenborg BK, Sahlman was the target of cruel taunts by their forward Rade Prica, where Prica claimed he "had never even heard of Sahlman, knew nothing of him where he had played or anything, and that he would score goals against him",[11] Prica missed the game through injury.

Career statistics

As of 7 October 2013
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] Continental Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Halmstad 2003 Allsvenskan – – – 0 0
2004 2 0 – – 2 0
2005 – – – 0 0
2006 13 0 3 0 – 6 0
2007 – 2 0 – 2 0
2008 11 0 – – 11 0
Total 26 0 5 0 0 0 31 0
Trelleborg (loan) 2007 Allsvenskan 11 0 – – 11 0
Trelleborg (loan) 2008 Allsvenskan 14 0 – – 14 0
Tromsø 2009 Tippeligaen 4 0 2 0 2 0 8 0
2010 24 0 4 0 – 28 0
2011 24 0 2 0 1 0 26 0
2012 9 0 4 0 5 0 18 0
2013 26 0 1 0 9 0 36 0
Total 87 0 13 0 17 0 117 0
Norrköping 2014 Allsvenskan 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Career total 139 0 18 0 17 0 174 0

Notes

  1. ^ Includes Svenska Cupen, Norwegian Cup.

References

  1. ^ "Malmö vann och leder allsvenskan". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). svd.se. 21 July 2004. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
  2. ^ "AGOVV heeft Zweedse doelman op proef" (in Dutch). Soccernews.nl. 19 December 2006. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
  3. ^ "Sahlman utlånad till Trelleborg" (in Swedish). hbk.se. 29 June 2007. Archived from the original on 28 August 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
  4. ^ "Marcus Sahlman på väg bort – Testspelar med Tromsö" (in Swedish). Fotbollskanalen.se. 2 July 2008. Retrieved 2 July 2008.
  5. ^ "Sahlmann signerte for TIL" (in Norwegian). Til.no. 13 July 2008. Archived from the original on 14 July 2008. Retrieved 13 July 2008.
  6. ^ "- Flere vil ha Sahlman". 9 July 2008.
  7. ^ "Sahlman till Norge" (in Swedish). HBK.se. 14 July 2008. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 14 July 2008.
  8. ^ "Marcus får ny höst i TFF" (in Swedish). HBK.se. 19 July 2008. Archived from the original on 3 August 2008. Retrieved 19 July 2008.
  9. ^ "Kamprapport: NY HJEMMEFEST – Gutan senket VIF" (in Norwegian). isberget.no. 25 May 2010. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
  10. ^ "– Se her, Hamrén" (in Norwegian). aftenbladet.no. 24 May 2010. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
  11. ^ "Sahlman, hvem?" (in Norwegian). bladet-tromso.no. 29 April 2010. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2010.