Martin Dahlin
Dahlin at the 2014 Svenska idrottsgalan
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Dan Martin Nataniel Dahlin | ||
| Date of birth | 16 April 1968 | ||
| Place of birth | Uddevalla, Sweden | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Lund | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1987–1991 | Malmö | 79 | (39) |
| 1991–1996 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 106 | (50) |
| 1996–1997 | Roma | 3 | (0) |
| 1996–1997 | → Borussia Mönchengladbach (loan) | 19 | (10) |
| 1997–1999 | Blackburn Rovers | 27 | (4) |
| 1998–1999 | → Hamburger SV (loan) | 8 | (0) |
| Total | 242 | (103) | |
| National team | |||
| 1991–1997 | Sweden | 60 | (29) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Dan Martin Nataniel Dahlin (born 16 April 1968 in Uddevalla) is a former Swedish footballer who played as a striker. In his prime, he is considered one of the top-class strikers. He was one of the stars of the Swedish national team that finished third in the 1994 World Cup.
He is the son of an Venezuelan father, who was a musician, and a Swedish mother who both decided to name him after Martin Luther King. He was born in Uddevalla, but lived as a child in Lund.
In 1993 he was selected as best Swedish player of the year, winning Guldbollen.
He played for Malmö FF, Borussia Mönchengladbach, AS Roma, Hamburger SV and Blackburn Rovers. The most successful time of his career he spent with Borussia Mönchengladbach with whom he won the German Cup in 1995 along with Stefan Effenberg.
Dahlin transferred from AS Roma to Blackburn Rovers in mid-1997 and made 21 appearances in the 1997–98 season, scoring four goals.
In the 1998–99 season, he only played five games when an injury in a training game ruled him out for the rest of the season and contributed to his retirement from the game after a short spell at Hamburger SV in 1999.
Blackburn Rovers later sued their insurance company who had refused to pay out over the injury claiming that normal wear and tear could have been a contributing factor. Although the initial verdict was given in favour of the club, in 2005 the Court of Appeal overturned the verdict and sent it back to the lower court. On 12 April 2006, the High Court ruled in favour of the insurance company, decreeing that the player probably had a pre-existing condition. This decision left Blackburn about £4 million out-of-pocket.
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