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Biography of Martin Dahlin - Soccer
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Martin Dahlin (born April 16 1968) is a Sweden|Swedish football (soccer)|football player. He won bronze with the Sweden national football team|Swedish national team in the Football World Cup 1994|1994 Football World Cup and participated in the team which reached the semifinals of the 1992 European Football Championship. In 1993 he was selected as best Swedish player of the year, winning Guldbollen. He has played for Malmö FF, Borussia Mönchengladbach, AS Roma and Hamburger SV. Dahlin has black and Swedish parents, and bears a striking physical resemblance to former American football star and notorious murder suspect O. J. Simpson. In fact, during the 1994 World Cup (held in the United States|USA), he picked up the nickname "O.J." because of this similarity.

