John Guidetti

John Alberto Guidetti (, ; born 15 April 1992) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a striker for AIK.

Whilst growing up Guidetti played football in his native Sweden as well as Kenya.

Guidetti began his football career at the Swedish club IF Brommapojkarna's youth system in 1998.

In 2002, Guidetti moved with his family to Kenya, as his father had a job there.

This meant that Guidetti had to leave BP, and he joined the Impala BrommaBoys football academy based in Nairobi.

After one year with the Impala club, Guidetti joined Mathare United's academy, the MYSA organisation for sports development aid, in the slums of Nairobi.

In 2004, Guidetti left the organisation and joined Ligi Ndogo.

In 2006, he returned to Sweden with IF Brommapojkarna.

In total Guidetti spent around five years living in Kenya which he states helped him to develop on and off the pitch:

"That period was very important for my development, both on and off the pitch. I played football barefoot in the slum areas of Nairobi and I came into contact with local people and their culture. I still have a strong link with Kenya and every time I go back there I always get a warm welcome."

He returned to Sweden in 2008 and played with IF Brommapojkarna when at the age of 16 he earned a move to English club Manchester City.

In April 2008, at the age of sixteen, Guidetti signed a three-year deal with Manchester City.

Inter Milan, Sampdoria, Lazio, Roma and Ajax Cape Town (Ajax's feeder club in South Africa), among others, had all been in competition for securing his services.

Manchester City's manager at the time, Sven Goran Eriksson, spotted Guidetti's talent in his native Sweden, and immediately signed him.

Guidetti enjoyed a fine first season with the Manchester City under-18 team, scoring 13 times in 19 appearances.

He also marked his reserve team debut with a remarkable hat-trick against a Burnley side containing several seasoned campaigners.

He spent time out on loan back at Brommapojkarna and with Championship side Burnley in November 2010.

In 2010, he went out on loan to his old club Brommapojkarna, impressing by scoring three goals and racking up three assists in only eight appearances.

Manchester City's manager, Roberto Mancini, wanted to see how the youngster matched up alongside the City first team, so he handed him a chance to impress on the club's pre-season tour in the United States during the summer of 2010.

During this American tour, Guidetti managed to make his debut for the Manchester City first team, coming on as a sub in the second half in a match against Sporting Lisbon.

Two months later back in England, Guidetti went on to make his full debut in a competitive match for the Manchester City first team when he was selected as striker for the starting lineup in the League Cup third round match against West Bromwich Albion on 22 September 2010, in which he provided the assist for City's only goal in the game.

On 25 November 2010, Guidetti signed an initial one-month loan deal with Burnley, with a possible option for Burnley to extend the loan when it expired on 1 January 2011.

On 26 December 2010, in his first start for Burnley, he scored his first goal in a 2–1 victory at Barnsley.

Manchester City would not extend his loan spell at Burnley and Guidetti was called back to parent club on 31 December 2010 to subsequently be added to Manchester City's registered 25-man squad for the Europa League competition.

He joined Dutch club Feyenoord on loan for the 2011–12 season where he scored 20 goals in 23 games before a virus ended his time in the Netherlands.

Guidetti's development contract with Manchester City was due to run out in July 2011.

In late May, he visited Dutch club Twente with his father and several Swedish, Dutch and British media outlets reported he had signed a pre agreement with the Dutch club.

In mid June, reports indicated that there were problems with this agreement.

Twente understood they had a Bosman deal agreed with Guidetti's camp, but agent Per Jonsson insisted nothing had been agreed upon in contract.

Twente chairman Joop Munsterman said: "We do not know if Mr. Jonsson is his agent. We have done business with Mike [Guidetti] (the father of the player). The most important thing for a young player like Guidetti is that he plays a lot of games. For that reason, Twente is the logical choice."

The Dutch football association FBO (Federatie Betaald Voetbal Organization), let a lawyer review the preliminary agreement between John Guidetti and Twente.

The club announced that the contract should be regarded as valid.

– "In our opinion it is a valid contract. We look forward to welcoming John for his first practice 1 July", said Twente chairman Joop Munsterman to Voetbal International magazine.

On 9 July 2011, Manchester City released a set of photographs as the team set off on a North American pre-season tour.

Despite his alleged transfer to Twente, Guidetti was spotted in the photos taken at the airport with his Manchester City teammates.

Having represented Sweden at several youth levels, Guidetti earned his first senior international cap against Croatia on 29 February 2012.

In January 2014, Guidetti joined Stoke City on loan until the end of the 2013–14 season, and in September of that year he was loaned to Scottish champions Celtic for the following season, winning the Scottish Premiership and Scottish League Cup.

In July 2015, Guidetti signed for Spanish side Celta Vigo.

At under-21 level, he won the 2015 European Championship.

He represented Sweden's senior team at UEFA Euro 2016 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.