Johan Eklund (born 30 May 1984) is a Swedish

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who plays for

IK Brage Idrottsklubben Brage, also known as IK Brage or simply Brage, is a Swedish Association football, football club located in Borlänge. The club is affiliated with Dalarnas Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Domnarvsvallen. The club colou ...

as a

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Career

Eklund grew up in

Falun Falun () is a city and the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 37,291 inhabitants in 2010. It is also the capital of Dalarna County. Falun forms, together with Borlänge, a metropolitan area with just over 100,000 inhabit ...

where he started out playing for hometown club Falu BS which later turned into

Falu FK Falu FK is a Swedish football club located in Falun in Dalarna County. Background Falu FK was founded on 27 February 2006 following a joint initiative of the football sections of Falu BS, Slätta SK und Korsnäs IF FK clubs. The men's teams ...

. In his youth he was also a

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and

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player before deciding to invest all his time into football at age 15 or 16. In 2008, he was signed by

to play as a

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but was soon moved back into his natural

position. There he had an extremely successful year in 2009 where he scored 21 goals in 23 games and helped his team win promotion to second tier

Superettan Superettan (; ) is an association football league and the second highest league in the Swedish football league system, league system of Swedish football, Swedish men's football. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and rel ...

. The following year he also became a top ten goalscorer of the 2010 Superettan.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Eklund, Johan 1984 births Living people Men's association football forwards GIF Sundsvall players IK Brage players Allsvenskan players Superettan players Swedish men's footballers Footballers from Falun 21st-century Swedish sportsmen