Sam Johnson (footballer, born 1993)

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Sam Johnson
Personal information
Full name Sam Garyahzon Johnson
Date of birth (1993-05-06) 6 May 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth Monrovia, Liberia
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Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Djurgårdens IF
Number 20
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
New Dream FC
Nimba FC
2011 Assyriska IF KF 5 (1)
2012 Juventus IF 10 (4)
2012 Härnösands FF 9 (5)
2013–2014 IK Frej 50 (17)
2015– Djurgårdens IF 41 (17)
International career‡
2011 Liberia U-23 8 (6)
2015– Liberia 8 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of May 29, 2016
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of April 7, 2016

Sam Johnson (born 6 May 1993) is a Liberian footballer who plays for Djurgårdens IF as a forward.[1]

Career

Johnson started out playing for his village team before joining Liberian third division side New Dream FC. With them he scored two goals in a cup game against Liberian Premier League club Nimba FC who were so impressed by his performance that they ended up signing him.[2]

In 2011 Johnson travelled to Norway to trial with FK Haugesund. He impressed the Norwegian club, but only enough for them to offer him a youth contract, so he instead signed with Swedish club Dalkurd FF. He would however only stay there for a couple of months due to work permit problems. Johnson remained in Sweden though and played for fourth tier club Assyriska IF KF during the second half of the 2011 season.[3]

For the first half of the following season Johnson stepped down one division and played for fifth tier club Juventus IF before once again returning to the fourth tier when playing for Härnösands FF during the fall.[4] After the season he was awarded the title of "best midfielder" in the league Härnösand played in.[5]

Before the 2013 season Johnson trialed with second tier Superettan club Jönköpings Södra IF but was turned down.[6] Instead he signed a three-year deal with third tier club IK Frej.[7] In his second season with them Johnson, who was now playing as forward, became their top goalscorer as the club was promoted to Superettan. In December 2014 Allsvenskan club Djurgårdens IF announced that they had signed Johnson on a four-year deal.[1]

Sam Johnson made his Allsvenskan debut for Djurgården in the 1–2 loss against Elfsborg on 5 April 2015.[8] He got his first Allsvenskan goal in the 1–2 loss against Hammarby on 13 April.[9] After a successful first top flight season where Johnson scored a total of 10 times Djurgården turned down a 22 million SEK bid from french Ligue 1 club Bordeaux the following winter.[10]

International career

Johnson played with the Liberia U23 National Team in 2011 for which he scored six goals in eight games.[11][12] In 2015 he started playing for the Liberia national football team.[13]

Career statistics

As of 29 May 2016[14]
Club performance League Cup Continental Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Sweden League Svenska Cupen Europe Total
2011 Assyriska IF KF Division 2 5 1 — — 5 1
2012 Juventus IF Division 3 10 4 — — 10 4
Härnösands FF Division 2 9 5 — — 9 5
2013 IK Frej Division 1 25 5 2 0 — 27 5
2014 25 12 2 1 — 27 13
2015 Djurgårdens IF Allsvenskan 29 10 3 0 — 32 10
2016 12 7 3 0 — 15 7
Career total 100 37 10 1 — 125 45

References

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