Jan Möller

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Jan Möller
Personnel
birthday 17th September 1953
place of birth Malmo ,  Sweden
size 190 cm
position goalkeeper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1972-1980 Malmö FF 195 (0)
1980-1982 Bristol City 48 (0)
1982-1983 Toronto Blizzard 55 (0)
1984-1988 Malmö FF 102 (0)
1989-1991 Helsingborgs IF 51 (0)
1992 Trelleborgs FF 17 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1979-1988 Sweden 17 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Jan Möller (born September 17, 1953 in Malmö ) is a former Swedish football player . The goalkeeper , who took part in the 1978 World Cup with the Swedish national team , was in the final of the European Cup with Malmö FF .

Career

Möller made his debut for Malmö FF in the Allsvenskan in 1972 when he remained clean in a 3-0 win against Örgryte IS . Under coach Bob Houghton , he became a regular goalkeeper. After winning the championship in the 1974 season and the national cup in the same year, he showed himself in the 1975/76 European Cup for the first time on the international stage, when he was able to save four penalties in the penalty shoot-out in the first round in a duel against 1.FC Magdeburg . After successfully defending the doubles title in 1975, he won his third championship title with the club in 1977. Then national coach Georg Ericson appointed him without a previous international appearance as the third goalkeeper behind Ronnie Hellström and Göran Hagberg in the squad for the 1978 World Cup final tournament in Argentina, in which the country selection failed despite a draw against Brazil in the preliminary round as bottom group behind group winners Austria and Spain .

In the 1978/79 European Cup , Möller moved into the final with Malmö FF after victories over AS Monaco , Dynamo Kiev , Wisła Krakow and FK Austria Wien . At the side of Robert Prytz , Tore Cervin , Ingemar Erlandsson , Anders Ljungberg , Staffan Tapper and Roland Andersson , he missed the title win by conceding a goal from Trevor Francis with a 0-1 defeat. Not least because this was the first Swedish club team to make it into a European Cup final, he and the team received the Svenska Dagbladet gold medal for the best Swedish sporting performance of the year. In the spring of 1979 he also made his national team debut when he guarded the goal in the 2-0 defeat by the Soviet Union in Tbilisi . In the following years the battle for the space between the posts developed between himself, Hellström, Hagberg and Thomas Wernersson .

Because of his achievements, Möller received the Guldbollen as Sweden's football player of the year in 1980 . In the same year he left his home country and followed coach Houghton, who had returned to England after a short stay at the Greek club Ethnikos Piraeus . He was under contract with Bristol City for two seasons before moving on to Toronto Blizzard in North America with Houghton in 1982 . There he played on the side of Alan Merrick , Victor Kodelja , Jimmy Nicholl and Randy Ragan . At the end of 1983 he left the club and was inherited by Sven Habermann in Tor.

Möller returned to Sweden. Under coach Roy Hodgson , he finished first in the 1985 season with Malmö FF at the end of regular time, but failed with the team in the semi-finals of the championship finals at IFK Gothenburg . In the following year he repeated the success in the series with the club and was able to win the championship again after victories against IFK Norrköping and AIK . At the same time, a 2-1 final win against IFK Göteborg succeeded in winning the double again. In the 1988 season he moved with the team around Martin Dahlin , Jonas Thern and Roger Ljung again in the final, which was won against Djurgårdens IF . In the same year he made his 17th international match, his last appearance in the national jersey.

After winning the title, Möller left Malmö FF and joined Helsingborgs IF . With the then third division club, he made it to the second division at the end of 1989. In 1992 he briefly returned to the Allsvenskan when Trelleborgs FF hired him as a stopgap to solve his goalkeeping problem.

In 1993 Möller ended his active career. He returned to Malmö FF as a goalkeeping coach , most of the time he worked for the club in youth work. He also worked in his own capacity for several lower-class clubs.

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personal data
SURNAME Möller, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish national soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Malmo