Guillermo Molins

Guillermo Molins
Personnel
Surname	Guillermo Federico Molins Palmeiro
birthday	September 26, 1988
place of birth	Montevideo ,  Uruguay
size	186 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2001	Kävlinge GIF
2001	Landskrona BoIS
2002-2004	Stora Harrie IF
2005	Kävlinge GIF
2005-2006	Malmö FF
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005	Kävlinge GIF
2006-2011	Malmö FF	106 (15)
2011-2013	RSC Anderlecht	7 0(0)
2013	→  Betis Sevilla  (loan)	4 0(0)
2013-2016	Malmö FF	36 (19)
2016-2017	Beijing Renhe	14 0(0)
2017-2018	Panathinaikos Athens	25 0(6)
2018–	Malmö FF	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2007	Sweden U-19	4 0(1)
2008-2010	Sweden U-21	23 0(2)
2010-2014	Sweden	6 0(1)
1 Only league games are given. As of August 1, 2018

Guillermo Federico Molins Palmeiro , Guillermo Molins for short , (born September 26, 1988 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) is a Swedish football player of Uruguayan descent. The midfielder , who won the Swedish championship three times with Malmö FF and the Belgian championship twice with RSC Anderlecht , made his debut for the Swedish national team in 2010 .

Career

Career start in Sweden and promotion to national team

Molins was born in Uruguay and came to Sweden when he was four. There he started playing soccer at Kävlinge GIF . In 2001 he switched to the youth department of Landskrona BoIS for a short time before returning to Kävlinge GIF in 2005 via Stora Harrie IF . At the sixth class amateur club, he made his debut in the men's team.

In August 2005, Molins joined Malmö FF . First he played in the youth and the second team of the traditional club until he made his debut in the Allsvenskan on October 16 when he came on for Yksel Osmanovski in the 82nd minute of the 2-0 win over GAIS . During the rest of the season he came on four more times as a substitute and was a regular substitute in the squad in the following season. On June 15, 2007, Molins was finally in the starting line-up for the first time in the 2-1 home defeat against Halmstads BK , but could not initially recommend himself as a regular player. Nevertheless, Ulf Svensson , selection coach of the U-19 national team, nominated him in spring 2007 for the junior national team, in whose squad he was able to establish himself.

At the beginning of the 2008 season, Molins fought for a regular place in the starting XI of the MFF. In the 1-1 draw against IF Elfsborg on matchday seven, he scored his first goal in the Swedish elite series. At the same time he played his way into the Swedish U-21 national team. After his debut on May 25 of that year in the 0-0 draw against the Portuguese U-21s , he received good reviews. Analogous to the club, he also established himself in the selection team in the starting XI. When he came in 2009 in all twelve games of the season before the summer recess of the Swedish League used, it was the end of May by the selection coaches Tommy Söderberg and Jörgen Lennartsson alongside his club Kollegens Labinot Harbuzi for the Swedish squad at the U-21 European Championship in own country nominated. In two games during the tournament, he contributed to reaching the semi-finals, in which the national team met the English U-21 selection . After they had made up a 3-0 deficit, the penalty shoot-out had to decide on the final. He shot the final penalty kick against the post, so that he was eliminated from the tournament with the Swedish team.

By the end of the season, Molins was one of the regulars at Malmö FF and reached seventh place with the club after a mixed season. His achievements during the season were rewarded by national coach Erik Hamrén , who nominated him for the first international matches of the Swedish national team at the beginning of 2010. On January 20 of the year he was in the 1-0 victory over the Omani national team through a goal from Anders Svensson on the side of Pontus Farnerud , Tom Söderberg , Daniel Larsson and Daniel Örlund in his international debut in the starting lineup. In the following season he was one of the top performers at his club and directly involved in 14 goals - seven times as a goal scorer or preparer. He made a decisive contribution to winning the championship before Helsingborgs IF and was nominated by Hamrén for the opening international games in 2011.

Change abroad

In June 2011 Molins left Sweden after another half series in the Allsvenskan. He joined the Belgian club RSC Anderlecht , which had recently signed his compatriot and former Malmö FF club mate Behrang Safari . The season began for him with a setback, in his first game in a friendly game he tore a cruciate ligament . After his return, coach Ariël Jacobs only used him as a substitute in one game of the 2011/12 regular season in mid-March, after which he had to wait until May for a new assignment. When the club was established as champions almost prematurely, he came on the third last match day in the play-off round to determine the Belgian national champions for his second competitive game. With the 1-1 draw against direct rivals Club Bruges , the club secured the title, in the following two games he was in the starting lineup. Also in the following season there was no place for him in midfield around Sacha Klještan and Dennis Praet , until the turn of the year he was only active in three league games and as a substitute in the UEFA Champions League . At the start of the January transfer window , he was linked to various clubs. Ultimately, he moved to the Spanish Primera División on loan in mid-January , where he joined Betis Sevilla until the end of the season. Here, however, he did not get beyond the status of a supplementary player, four short appearances as a substitute were to book for him until the end of the season.

Return to Sweden

After returning to RSC Anderlecht, Molins made three league appearances in the summer, but in August he moved back to Malmö FF in Sweden. He quickly established himself under coach Rikard Norling in the team in the championship race and contributed eight goals in eleven games to the side of Jiloan Hamad , Miiko Albornoz , Johan Dahlin and Simon Thern to win the title. This led to a brief return to the national team for their January tour in early 2014, where he scored his only international goal in the 2-0 win over Iceland with the goal to the final score. Also at the beginning of the subsequent Allsvenskan season he was a regular on the offensive and scored eight goals in eleven games by the summer. In a training game against Partizan Belgrade at the end of June that year, however, he tore a cruciate ligament , which resulted in a longer period of absence. Without his further action, the team defended the championship title and moved into the group stage of the UEFA Champions League for the first time in the club's history in the summer of 2014 , but where MFF were eliminated from the bottom of the group.

In June 2015, Molins returned to the football field for Malmö FF and played seven league games by the end of the 2015 season. He finished the season with the club in fifth place, so the return to the European Cup was missed. At the beginning of the following season he was only used irregularly. Despite long negotiations between the club and the players, no contract extension was concluded in 2016. After his contract expired at the end of June 2016, they parted ways.

Another move abroad

Molins presented his new club at the beginning of July. With the Chinese second division team Beijing Renhe , he signed a contract valid until the end of the season with an option to extend.

Since January 2017 he has been playing for Panathinaikos Athens .

In July 2018 it was announced that Molins was returning to Malmö FF again.

Titles and awards

• Swedish champion: 2010, 2013, 2014
• Swedish Supercup: 2013, 2014
• Belgian champion: 2012, 2013

Web links

• Guillermo Molins in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sydsvenskan.se: "Guillermo Molins från start mot Halmstad" ( Memento from July 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ sydsvenskan.se: "Molins debut gav mersmak" ( Memento from July 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "U21 gentleman: EM-troops uttagen" (accessed on June 8, 2009)
4. ↑ mff.se: "Molins klar för Anderlecht" ( Memento from June 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 4, 2011)
5. ↑ fotbollskanalen.se: "Molins skadad - blir borta i ett halvår:" Han gråter jättemycket "" (accessed on January 21, 2013)
6. ↑ fotbolltransfers.com: "Officiellt: Guillermo Molins heltklar för Real Betis" (accessed on January 21, 2013)
7. ↑ expressen.se: "Guillermo Molins är tillbaka i Malmö FF" (accessed on April 16, 2014)
8. ↑ aftonbladet.se: "Mardröm för Malmö - Molins korsband är av" (accessed on September 12, 2016)
9. ↑ mff.se: "Guillermo Molins lämnar Malmö FF" ( Memento of the original dated June 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 12, 2016) 
10. ↑ fotbollskanalen.se: "Clear: Molins har skrivit på for Beijing - så långt är kontraktet" (accessed on September 12, 2016)
11. ↑ [1]
12. ↑ Välkommen tillbaka till Malmö FF, Guillermo Molins! - Malmö FF. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 25, 2018 ; Retrieved July 25, 2018 (Swedish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ Avslöjar: Guldhjälten tillbaka i MFF . ( expressen.se [accessed July 18, 2018]).