Rasmus Schüller

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Rasmus Schüller
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Rasmus Schüller in 2010
Personnel
birthday June 18, 1991
place of birth Espoo ,  Finland
size 177 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
FC Kasiysi
HooGee
FC Honka
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2008-2011 FC Honka 63 0(5)
2008 FC Honka / 2 (2)
2009-2010 Pallohonka 4 0(1)
2012-2015 HJK Helsinki 88 (10)
2016-2017 BK hooks 18 0(1)
2017– Minnesota United 30 0(1)
2017 →  HJK Helsinki  (loan) 7 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
Finland U-16 6 0(1)
Finland U17 13 0(0)
Finland U18 11 0(0)
Finland U-19 5 0(0)
2010–2012 Finland U-21 14 0(1)
2013 Finland B 3 0(0)
2013– Finland 27 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of August 12, 2018

2 As of June 9, 2018

Rasmus Schüller (born June 18, 1991 in Espoo , Finland ) is a Finnish football player on the position of midfielder . Since 2017 he has been in the squad of the US first division club Minnesota United .

life and career

Career start and first steps at FC Honka

In 1991 Schüller was born in Finland's second largest city, Espoo, where he grew up and began his career as a football player with the lower-class FC Kasiysi . From there he switched to HooGee as a youngster , from where he moved to his next station, FC Honka . At the top-class soccer club Espoos he played in the club's own youth team until 2008 and in the game year 2008 he played for the first time in the professional team with play in the Veikkausliiga. Schüller, who had previously sat on the bench in some games of his team without being used, was finally used in three league games in August 2008. He made his debut on August 10, 2008 in a 2-0 away win over RoPS when he came on the field in the 82nd minute for Jussi Vasara , the goalscorer to make it 2-0. Furthermore, the midfielder was used at the end of October 2008 in the quarter and semi-finals of the 2008 Finnish Football Cup . After the team had only joined in the sixth round of the cup, the team made it to the final, where they were inferior to the HJK Helsinki with 1: 2 after extra time. In the final game, Rasmus Schüller was not used by Mika Lehkosuo . In the championship he finished second with the team behind Inter Turku at the end of the year and took part with the team in the second qualifying round for the 2009/10 Europa League . In the previous year, Schüller had already made an appearance in qualifying for the 2008/09 UEFA Cup , in which FC Honka was eliminated in the first round against Racing Santander . He was also used in 2008 in an unknown number of league games in the B team, scoring two goals. This year the team drove with a 7-0 victory over Haka Valkeakoski also the highest result of this game year in the Veikkausliiga.

He spent most of the 2009 game as a regular at FC Honka, playing 19 games over the entire season, scoring two goals and preparing another three for his teammates. He scored his first competitive goal as a professional on June 24, 2009 in a 4-1 home win over the Kuopion PS , when he met his team's 2-0 lead in the 42nd minute after work by Hermanni Vuorinen . With the team he also took part in the aforementioned second qualifying round for the Europa League and scored his first goal for FC Honka at international level 2-0 in the first leg against Bangor City . In the third qualifying round, the team was eliminated from the current competition against the Azerbaijani club FK Qarabağ Ağdam with a total score of 1: 3. In the Finnish Cup of 2009 , Schüller was eliminated with the team after the penalty shoot-out in the semi-finals against Tampere United ; In the Finnish League Cup 2009 , the provisional elimination followed, also after a penalty shoot-out, already in the quarter-finals against TPS . Rasmus Schüller came to other missions this year in two league games for the newly founded club Pallohonka , the new B-team of FC Honka, in the third-class Kakkonen . The team reached a place in the middle of the table in the final ranking. By the end of the season, the professional team was three points behind HJK Helsinki in second place in the table and thus qualified again for participation in the second qualifying round at next year's EL event . Furthermore, the team left in February 2009 in La Manga, Spain, as the winner of the La Manga Cup held there every year . With a 9-0 victory over RoPS, the team was also able to achieve the highest victory of this game year in the Veikkausliiga.

In the 2010 season , Schüller was used again in 19 league games, where he scored three goals, and contributed four templates . In the second qualifying round for the Europa League 2009/10, Schüller met his team again on Bangor City, although he could not prevail with the team against the Welsh in two-leg and with an overall result of 2-3 from the current Tournament eliminated. While the yellow-blacks from Espoo were eliminated 3-0 against HJK Helsinki in the sixth round of the Finnish Cup 2010 , the team made it to the final in the 2010 League Cup . After the team almost failed at AC Oulu in the quarter-finals and only barely progressed 8: 7 on penalties, the team, after a 2-0 semi-final win over Inter Turku, also beat JJK 4: 3 on penalties in the subsequent final Jyväskylä enforce. As in the previous year, Schüller was used in two league games by Pallohonka this year and even scored a goal in one encounter. The team reached fifth place in group B of the third class Kakkonen. In the final table it was enough for the professional team this year only for a fourth place; the victory in the league cup was enough for participation in the first qualifying round for the 2011/12 Europa League .

In the 2011 game year , Schüller was again in action for a large part of the games played. By the end of the season, when the team finished the season in fourth place, the Finnish midfielder was able to make a total of 22 league appearances in which he himself remained goalless, but contributed three assists. Initially, the game year should be played with 14 teams, but was played after the license refusal to Tampere United and AC Oulu with only 12 clubs in 33 games. From the 25th round on, Schüller was no longer in the squad of the professional team. Furthermore, FC Honka had the longest run without defeat this season with 14 league games in a row. While FC Honka came to an abrupt end in round 7 of the 2011 Finnish Cup competition and were eliminated 1-0 against IFK Mariehamn , the team reached the final of the 2011 Finnish League Cup , as in the previous year . The final on April 23, 2011 after goals from Nicholas Otaru and Demba Savage could clearly be won 3-0 against Tampere United. In the first qualifying round for the 2011/12 EL, the team recorded a meager 0-0 draw in the first leg in Espoo, but prevailed 2-0 in the subsequent second leg against the Estonian club Nõmme Kalju and scored in the 2nd. Qualifying round for a Swedish representative, the BK Häcken . This clash was won both times by BK Häcken with a later total score of 0: 3, which, however, was eliminated in the next round.

Change to the Finnish record champions

At the beginning of February 2012, Schüller moved for a rumored transfer fee of around 200,000 euros to the Finnish record champions HJK Helsinki, where he made his team debut under Antti Muurinen . He played just ten days after his official change in the league cup of 2012 against his former club from Espoo, where he was in the clear 4-0 defeat over the full game. At HJK Helsinki, Schüller was used as a regular in midfield for almost the entire game year and was able to demonstrate his offensive strength, especially from the 26th round, where he scored two goals and prepared another four for his teammates. Before that he had only managed one assist in the other rounds; In 2012, he completed a total of 25 championship games for the capital city club. The fact that the team participated as champions of the previous year from the 2nd qualifying round for the 2012/13 Champions League , Schüller was also used in this. He scored a goal in the 7-0 victory in the first leg against KR Reykjavík and was also used in the later 2-1 win in the second leg. In the third qualifying round the team that qualified for this over the Champions path against retired Celtic Glasgow with a total score of 1: 4 from a tournament and then got into the play-off stage of the Europa League 2012/13 again a. In the 1: 2 away defeat in Glasgow , Schüller scored the only goal of his team by stabbing. Here, too, the team could not stay in the tournament for long and were eliminated at the end of the play-offs with a total score of 3: 9 against Athletic Bilbao . Still faced with a 6-0 defeat in the away game in Spain, a 3-3 draw was made in the second leg at home, in which Rasmus Schüller contributed a goal and an assist, which was not enough to advance. While the reigning champions in the Finnish Cup 2012 were eliminated in the semifinals against Schüller's former club with a score of 4-5 after the penalty shoot-out, the team with Schüller's participation made it to the final of the Finnish League Cup 2012 . There, the team lost to the Turku PS in front of a little more than 2,000 spectators in the Sonera Stadium , also in the penalty shootout .

In the league things went better for Antti Muurinen's players, with first place being achieved with six points ahead of closest rival Inter Turku. This automatically qualified the club for the second qualifying round for the 2013/14 CL , where the team was eliminated early with an overall result of 1: 2 against Nõmme Kalju. In the 2013 game year Rasmus Schüller was used again under the new coach Sixten Boström in a large part of the 33 league games played, where he made a total of 23 league appearances, but acted much more aggressively than in previous years. He scored a total of seven goals, with Mikael Forssell (14 goals), Demba Savage and Erfan Zeneli (11 goals each) only the fourth best goalscorer of the HJK Helsinki, as well as four assists. Due to his achievements, he was called up for the first time in the national team of his home country and also used in this for the first time . In the 2013 Finnish Football Cup , Schüller, who scored one goal in two cup appearances, and his team were suddenly eliminated after a 1-0 defeat by RoPS in the sixth round. Also in the Finnish League Cup 2013 , the team retired early from the current tournament in the quarter-finals after a defeat in the penalty shootout against JJK Jyväskylä; Schüller was involved in six games in which he remained goalless. In the league, things went better again for the versatile midfielder and his team; HJK Helsinki ranked in the final table with 73 points and twelve points ahead of runner-up FC Honka Espoo and thus secured the Finnish championship title for the fifth time in a row. This season, the capital city club not only recorded the highest home win of the season with a 6-0 win over Inter Turku on June 13, but also scored the highest away win with a 5-0 win over IFK Mariehamn on June 27 of the year.

With the 2013 championship title, the club again took part in the second qualifying round for the 2014/15 Champions League , where the team met Rabotnički Skopje and narrowly prevailed against the Macedonians with an overall result of 2-1. In the third qualifying round, the team around Rasmus Schüller, who alternated between right and central midfielder in the tournament, failed with a total score of 2: 4 to APOEL Nicosia . Due to the elimination in the third qualifying round for the Champions League, HJK entered the play-off phase of the Europa League 2014/15 , where the team narrowly prevailed with an overall result of 5: 4 against SK Rapid Wien and thus won the subsequent group stage qualified. There the Finnish club met FC Copenhagen , FC Brugge and FC Turin between September and December 2014 , with the team eliminated from the current tournament as third in Group B. Schüller was hardly used, partly due to injury, and only came into play in the last two games.

In the 2014 game year , Schüller was only used in eleven league games, partly also because of his several months injury break, with one goal and three assists. Shortly after the start of the championship, there was already a change of coach at the capital club, with the previous coach Sixten Boström being replaced by Schüller's long-time coach Mika Lehkosuo, who in addition to Schüller encountered numerous of his former protégés who had already migrated to the HJK. The team around midfielder Schüller ended the championship ten points ahead of newcomer Seinäjoen JK in first place in the table. But the player, who was often used in defensive midfield in 2014 , also played in the 2014 League Cup , where the capital club was only eliminated in the semifinals with 0: 1 against eventual league cup winner Seinäjoen JK. Furthermore, he was used in the Finnish Cup 2014 , in which the team, after a semi-final victory over IFK Mariehamn, was already an opponent of the other semi-final winner, Inter Turku, for the final game initially set for September 27, 2014. The cup final was finally played on November 1, 2014, with the capital club only emerging as the Finnish cup winners after completing penalties.

In the 2015 season , Rasmus Schüller found his way back to his old strengths and was used in 30 of 33 possible league games, in which he did not provide a goal, but provided three assists for his teammates. In just a short end of the season, the HJK Helsinki ranked third in the final standings with 58 points, one point behind RoPS and two points behind last year's runner-up, Seinäjoen JK. In the 2015 Finnish Cup , the team was eliminated 1: 5 in the semifinals against eventual cup winners IFK Mariehamn , but was able to prevail in the 2015 Finnish League Cup 2-0 in the final against RoPS. In international club football, he appeared in the qualifying phase for the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League , where he played all four matches in the second and third qualifying rounds before he was eliminated with his team. He was also used in both parries of the subsequent play-offs of the 2015/16 UEFA Europa League qualification , but was eliminated there with a total score of 1: 5 against the Russian club FK Krasnodar . As early as October 7, 2015, it was announced that the multiple Finnish international will be moving to Fotbollsallsvenskan for the 2016 season, where BK Häcken will be active .

As a multiple national player to Sweden

After he officially moved to Sweden with his teammate Demba Savage at the beginning of 2016 , he made his competitive debut there in the 2015/16 Swedish Cup on February 26, 2016 , when he was captained by Peter Gerhardsson for the full 90 minutes at 0: 0 draw against IF Brommapojkarna was used. He starts the 2016 game year with the team at the beginning of April 2016 .

National team career

Rasmus Schüller has already been used in all of the Finnish junior teams. He has already played six international matches for Finland's U-16s, for which he also scored one goal. He then played 13 games for the Finnish U-17 national team, with which he also took part in the qualification for the U-17 European Championship in 2008 , but could not qualify for participation. Schüller also took part in eleven U-18 and a number of U-19 international matches, including qualifying for the U-19 European Championship in 2009 , but was unable to qualify with the team for the tournament. The 1.77 m tall midfielder also took part in qualifying for the 2010 U-19 European Championship , but was unable to prevail with the Finns. As of 2010, Rasmus Schüller was appointed to the U-21 national squad by the long-time Finnish U-21 coach Markku Kanerva , but after Kanerva's departure he mainly worked under the new coach Mika Laurikainen . By 2012 he had 14 U-21 internationals in which he scored one goal. For the most part, he played for the team in qualifying for the U-21 European Championship 2011 , in which the Finns failed to take part in the finals. The midfielder also took part in the qualification for the U-21 European Championship in 2013 , but was unable to qualify with his team. The remaining games were mostly friendly international matches. In 2013 Schüller was used in a total of three games of the Finnish B national team. In the same year it came on January 23rd in a friendly game against Thailand , a 3-1 win in the 700th Anniversary Stadium , also for the first international appearance in the senior national team of his home country. With the team, he also took part in a number of qualifying games for the 2014 World Cup, but was unable to qualify for the finals in Brazil with Finland . To date (March 7, 2016) Schüller has been used in a total of 15 international matches for his home country.

successes

FC Honka

HJK Helsinki

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Finsk landslagsman of course for Häcken! ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2015 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. (Swedish), accessed March 7, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bkhacken.se
  2. ↑ Demba Savage clear for Häcken! ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2015 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. (Swedish), accessed March 7, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bkhacken.se
personal data
SURNAME Schüller, Rasmus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Espoo , Finland