Per Nilsson (soccer player)

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Per Nilsson
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Per Nilson (2011)
Personnel
Surname Per Jörgen Nilsson
birthday September 15, 1982
place of birth Harnösand ,  Sweden
size 190 cm
position Central defender
Juniors
Years station
1988-1991 Stigsjö IK
1992-1998 IFK Timrå
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998 IFK Timrå 10 0(6)
1999-2001 GIF Sundsvall 40 0(1)
2001-2004 AIK Solna 66 0(3)
2005-2007 Odd Grenland 58 0(7)
2007-2010 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 45 0(0)
2010-2014 1. FC Nuremberg 73 (10)
2014-2016 FC Copenhagen 21 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Sweden U18 10 0(1)
Sweden U-19 9 0(1)
2001-2004 Sweden U-21 22 0(1)
2001-2014 Sweden 16 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2016/17

Per Jörgen "Pelle" Nilsson (born September 15, 1982 in Härnösand ) is a former Swedish football player . At Bundesliga club RB Leipzig he is assistant to the sports director Ralf Rangnick .

Career

society

Nilsson started playing football at Stigsjö IK in 1988 . From 1992 to 1998 he played in the youth of IFK Timrå , before he went to GIF Sundsvall in 1999 and made his debut there in the Allsvenskan . In July 2001 he joined the league rivals AIK Solna . In 2005 he went to Odd Grenland in the Norwegian Tippeligaen .

In the summer of 2007 he moved to the German second division promoted TSG 1899 Hoffenheim . Despite several injuries, he made 22 missions in the first year and helped the club march through to the 1st Bundesliga. There he was initially again a regular player, but was put on the bench after the 4-5 defeat against Werder Bremen on matchday 6. On his next outing from the start they lost to Leverkusen 1: 4, which brought him another break. He only returned to the starting line-up in the last third of the season. Before the 2009/10 season, Nilsson was chosen by his teammates as the new captain. But he could not prevail against the newcomers in the defense and did not conquer a regular place. Overall, he played in the league only seven times and three times in the DFB Cup, in which he scored the decisive 1-0 against 1. FC Nürnberg in the second round .

After two seasons in the Bundesliga , Nilsson moved to 1. FC Nürnberg for the 2010/2011 season for around 450,000 euros. There he formed the central defense with Andreas Wolf until matchday 12 . Then he had to take a long break because of a knee injury he sustained in training. In the second half of the season, however, Philipp Wollscheid took over the regular position next to Wolf after convincing performances and so Nilsson was only substituted five times after recovering from injury and replaced Andreas Wolf in two games. On March 12, 2011, he scored his first Bundesliga goal in a 2-1 away win against VfL Wolfsburg .

In the 2012/13 season he was the internal top scorer at 1. FC Nürnberg with six goals in the Bundesliga. In the summer of 2014 he moved to the Danish top club FC Copenhagen , where he ended his active career on December 15, 2016 at the age of 34.

National team

Nilsson played in several youth teams in his home country, including 22 times in the Swedish U-21s . His debut in the Swedish senior team was Nilsson on January 31, 2001 in the 0-0 draw against the Faroe Islands , then he was irregular in the squad of the national team. After playing his last selection game with his fifth international match in 2007 , he returned to the focus of national coach Erik Hamrén in February 2013 due to constant performances at his club . Initially, he was only on the bench twice, but at the end of March, after almost six years in a 0-0 draw against Slovakia, he made his comeback in the blue and yellow jersey.

management

In January 2017, RB Leipzig announced that Nilsson would be the assistant to the sports director Ralf Rangnick for the 2017/18 season . As such, he initially took on tasks in team management for the first team. Since July 2018 he has been the sporting director of the U16 to U19.

Title / Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b RB Leipzig: Former Hoffenheim Nilsson becomes Rangnick's assistant. In: zeit.de. January 24, 2018, accessed July 21, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Player profile , at footballdatabase.eu
  3. ↑ sport1.de: "Nilsson new Hoffenheim captain" (accessed on July 25, 2010)
  4. ^ Hoffenheim's Nilsson before moving to Nuremberg
  5. ↑ [1]
  6. ↑ Trainer question clarified: Ralf Rangnick is the new RBL head coach! In: dierotenbullen.com. July 9, 2018, accessed July 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Nilsson, Per
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nilsson, Pelle (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Harnösand , Sweden