Johan Mårtensson

Johan Mårtensson

Personal information
Full name	Johan Mårtensson
Date of birth	February 16, 1989 (1989-02-16)
Place of birth	Skövde, Sweden
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Utrecht
Number	6
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2006–2008	Ulvåkers IF
2008	→ Skövde AIK (loan)
2008–2011	GAIS	78	(1)
2011–	Utrecht	6	(1)
National team
2009–2010	Sweden U21	7	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Johan Mårtensson (born February 16, 1989) is a Swedish footballer, who plays as a midfielder for Eredivisie club Utrecht.

Mårtensson has played 7 U21-games for Sweden. He likes to play as a central midfielder.

GAIS

During his career at GAIS, he first came from the third tier club Skövde AIK and therefor had some time to adapt to compete at a higher level. Mårtensson did the progress pretty fast and he shortly became a key player at GAIS's midfield. He showed that he was a great box to box player with good stamina, but also good vision for the game that worked out well with his capable technique. Although he's quite young and been capped several times for the Swedish U21 team, he is a bit underrated, maybe because GAIS isn't one of the biggest club in Allsvenskan. During the 2011 season of Allsvenskan Mårtensson had improved even more since the season before and showed that on the pitch. A bunch of European clubs were following him, with especially some sharp eyes from the Dutch club of FC Utrecht.

FC Utrecht

On July 9, 2011, both GAIS and FC Utrecht confirmed that Mårtensson had signed a four year contract with the Dutch side. It was an undisclosed fee, but Mårtensson was valued at about 1.5 million Euros at that time.

External links

• Profile at Svenskfotboll.se