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Martin Olsson
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Swedish association football player
OverviewAI-generated
Martin Tony Waikwa Olsson is a Swedish association football player who plays as a full-back. Born on 17 May 1988 in Gävle, he stands 178 cm tall and weighs 71 kg. He has represented the Sweden national under-19 and under-21 teams, as well as the senior national team in competitions including UEFA Euro 2012, UEFA Euro 2016, and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Olsson has played for clubs such as Blackburn Rovers F.C., Norwich City F.C., and Malmö FF. His professional career began in 2007, and he has competed in the Premier League. He wears the number 13 jersey and speaks Swedish. His sibling is Marcus Olsson, and he is a relative of Dirk Nowitzki.
Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 11
- Total plays
- 24
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Martin+Olsson">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
<b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 75,814x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,627x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,514x
- STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ASSESSING AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO METHODS OF CLINICAL MEASUREMENT
· 1986 · cited 37,917x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,878x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- 2020
- Helsingborgs IF
- 2021
- BK Häcken
- Full name
- Martin Tony Waikwa Olsson
- Date of birth
- ( 1988-05-17 ) 17 May 1988 (age 38)
- Place of birth
- Gävle , Sweden
- Height
- 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
- Position
- Left-back
- 2005 2006
- Högaborgs BK
- 2006 2007
- Blackburn Rovers
- Years
- Team
- 2007 2013
- Blackburn Rovers
- 2013 2017
- Norwich City
- 2017 2019
- Swansea City
- 2021 2026
- Malmö FF
- 2007 2010
- Sweden U21
- 2010 2023
- Sweden
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Malmo FF
- Position
- Centre-Back
- Nationality
- Sweden
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tony
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Place of birth
- Gävle
- Sibling
- Marcus Olsson
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Swedish
- Participant in
- UEFA Euro 2016
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Högaborgs BK
- Position played
- full-back
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- Sweden
- Mass
- 71
- Image
- Martin Olsson Euro 2012 vs France.jpg
- Height
- 178
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- Martin Olsson
- date of birth
- 1988-05-17
- sport number
- 13
- relative
- Dirk Nowitzki
- birth name
- Martin Tony Waikwa Olsson
- start of work period
- 2007-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Martin Tony Waikwa Olsson (born 17 May 1988) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a left-back.
Olsson signed for Blackburn Rovers from Högaborgs BK in January 2006. In 2013, Premier League side Norwich City signed him for an undisclosed fee. In January 2017, he left Norwich to join Swansea until 2019. In 2020, he signed with Allsvenskan club Helsingborgs IF in his native Sweden before moving on to represent both BK Häcken and Malmö FF.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Martin Olsson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.