Mikael Forssell
| Mikael Forssell | ||
 Mikael Forssell (2004)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Mikael Kaj Forssell | |
| birthday | March 15, 1981 | |
| place of birth | Steinfurt , Germany | |
| size | 184 cm | |
| position | Storm | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1994-1997 | HJK Helsinki | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1997-1998 | HJK Helsinki | 17 (1) |
| 1998-2005 | Chelsea FC | 33 (5) |
| 2000-2001 | → Crystal Palace (loan) | 52 (16) |
| 2003 | → Borussia M'gladbach (loan) | 16 (7) |
| 2003-2005 | → Birmingham City (loan) | 36 (17) |
| 2005-2008 | Birmingham City | 65 (13) |
| 2008-2011 | Hannover 96 | 44 (7) |
| 2011–2012 | Leeds United | 15 (0) |
| 2012-2014 | HJK Helsinki | 44 (21) |
| 2014-2015 | VfL Bochum | 16 (3) |
| 2016 | HJK Helsinki | 19 (3) |
| 2017 | Helsingfors IFK | 26 (8) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| Finland U-15 | 19 (15) | |
| Finland U17 | 4 (1) | |
| Finland U-19 | 5 (5) | |
| Finland U-20 | 3 (0) | |
| Finland U-21 | 8 (0) | |
| 1999-2012 | Finland | 87 (29) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Mikael Kaj Forssell (born March 15, 1981 in Steinfurt , Germany ) is a former Finnish soccer player .
Origin and childhood
Due to his father's professional activity, the Finnish Swede Mikael Forssell was born in Steinfurt before his family moved to Sweden about a year later .
Career
societies
He completed his first professional league game at the age of 16 for the HJK Helsinki .
Forssell has been under contract with Chelsea since 1998 . His contract originally ran until June 30, 2007. Forssell has played regularly for the Finnish national team since 1999 and has since been transferred from Chelsea to Crystal Palace (2000-2001), Borussia Mönchengladbach (February 2003 to June 2003) and Birmingham City (August 2003 to December 2004) on loan.
During his time at Borussia Moenchengladbach scored Forssell for the club in 16 league games seven goals and was instrumental in relegation Gladbach with. In 2003, he was ranked twelfth in the election of Germany's Footballer of the Year .
In the summer of 2005 he was transferred to Birmingham City for 4.5 million euros . A possible move to Hannover 96 for the 2007/08 season had come to an end as Birmingham did not want to do without its player. However, Hannover 96 managed to sign the player for the 2008/09 season . He had not renewed his contract with Birmingham City and decided to return to the Bundesliga.
In the first test match after his return to Germany, Forssell scored ten goals, including two hat tricks (within eight and six minutes, respectively) in a 23-0 win against regional division Boffzen. In the 5-1 win of his team against Borussia Mönchengladbach, on the fourth match day of the 2008/09 season, Forssell was able to achieve his first league goal for the Hanoverians. With seven goals in 30 games, he was next to Jiří Štajner the most important offensive player of the season. The following year, however, a protracted ligament injury threw him out of the race for most of the season and with only two appearances it was a lost year for the Finn. In the 2010/11 season he did not find his way back to his old form and was only a supplementary player in the storm. With twelve substitutions as a joker, he didn't score a single goal. Mikael Forssell left Hanover at the end of the season after his contract, which expired on June 30, 2011, was not extended.
Forssell found a new employer in the Football League Championship , the second highest English division, in the traditional club Leeds United .
From 2012 to 2014 Forssell was active at the first division club HJK Helsinki . On August 29, 2014, the second division VfL Bochum signed him free of charge for the 2014/15 season after Forsell in Helsinki terminated his contract, which was still valid until December 31, 2014. After more than three years, he played a league game for a German club again. On September 11, 2014 (5th matchday), he was used in a 1-1 draw in the home game against Karlsruher SC for Stanislav Šesták in the 78th minute. In total, he came to Bochum on 16 missions in which he scored three hits.
After the 2014/2015 season, Forssell announced that he was leaving VfL Bochum after just one year. Forssell scored three goals in 16 games for VfL.
As his ex-club HJK Helsinki officially announced, the 34-year-old will sign a contract in the Finnish capital until the end of December 2016. At the end of the following year he played for the last time in Finland's elite league for Helsingfors IFK . In his last two professional games, the striker was unable to prevent HIFK from relegating HIFK to the second division . In May 2018, almost six months after these games, the ex-national player announced the end of his career in a video message on Twitter.
National team
Forssell made his debut for the Finnish national team on June 9, 1999 against Moldova . A year and a half later, on February 28, 2001, he scored his first goal in the national shirt against Luxembourg . With the selection of his country, he could not qualify for a major tournament in his almost fifteen-year national team career. In his 87 international matches for Finland up to January 2014, the attacker scored 29 goals.
Web links
- Mikael Forssell in the database of weltfussball.de
- Mikael Forssell in the database of fussballdaten.de
- Mikael Forssell in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Mikael Forssell in the database of the German Football Association
- Mikael Forssell in the database of kicker.de
- Mikael Forssell in the soccerbase.com database
- Mikael Forssell in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
- Mikael Forssell ( memento from January 23, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) on the association's website (Finnish)
- Profile on veikkausliiga.com (Finnish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Football has to be fun" - Interview with Mikael Forssell. (No longer available online.) Hannover 96, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 3, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Matthias Arnhold: Mikael Forssell - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF.com . May 28, 2020. Accessed May 29, 2020.
- ↑ leedsunited.com: "FORSSELL SIGNS FOR UNITED" (accessed August 8, 2011)
- ↑ Change to VfL Bochum ( memento from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on vfl-bochum.de
- ^ Team VfL Bochum kicker.de
- ↑ Ex-Bundesliga professional Forssell ends career. weltfussball.de, May 13, 2018, accessed on May 23, 2018 .
- ^ Roberto Mamrud: Mikael Forssell - Goals in International Matches . RSSSF . May 28, 2020. Accessed May 29, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Forssell, Mikael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Forssell, Mikael Kaj (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Steinfurt , Germany |