Robin Söder

Robin Söder
Robin Söder in May 2009
Personnel
birthday	April 1, 1991
place of birth	Alingsås Municipality ,  Sweden
size	177 cm
position	Striker , winger
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1998	Magra IS
1998-2002	Sollebrunn's AIK
2002-2005	Morlanda GoIF
2008	IFK Gothenburg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005-2006	Morlanda GoIF
2006-2007	Stenungsunds IF
2008-2014	IFK Gothenburg	125 (23)
2014-2017	Esbjerg fB	50 (17)
2017-2018	Sporting Lokeren	25 (5)
2018–	IFK Gothenburg	39 (16)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2006	Sweden U-15	4 (2)
2007	Sweden U-16	11 (6)
2008	Sweden U-17	4 (1)
2008-2009	Sweden U-21	5 (1)
2020–	Sweden	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of June 18, 2020 2 As of January 12, 2020

Robin Söder (* 1. April 1991 in the parish of Magra, municipality of Alingsås ) is a Swedish football player . The striker and winger , who won the Svenska Cup with IFK Göteborg in 2008 and 2013 , made his debut in the same year at the age of 17 as the youngest player to date in the Swedish U-21 team .

Career

Söder started playing football in his hometown at Magra IS before joining Sollebrunn's AIK . At the age of eleven, he moved to Ellös with his mother and therefore switched to Morlanda GoIF . There he made his debut at the age of fourteen in the men's team and scored 105 goals in the U-14, U-16 and men's teams of the club within a year. Thereupon he signed the former second division Stenungsunds IF in the summer of 2006 . With the sixth division he won the relay in Division IV Bohuslän / Dal , but already trained partially with the youth team of IFK Göteborg . In addition, he was appointed to the Swedish U-15 team in the same year. In the following years he established himself in the state youth selections.

In 2008 Söder moved to IFK Göteborg. First he played in the club's youth team, but made his debut in the Allsvenskan on July 1 of that year in the game against Trelleborgs FF . He soon made a name for himself at the Gothenburg Club, which increasingly relied on young players - in addition to Söder, under the coaching duo Jonas Olsson and Stefan Rehn, a number of young players such as Nicklas Bärkroth , Sebastian Eriksson and Tobias Sana came to regular appearances in the Swedish elite series - also in the upper class Football stands out as a regular goal scorer and has also been described by the press as an outstanding talent internationally. Due to his good performances he played his way into the notebook of Tommy Söderberg and Jörgen Lennartsson , the supervisors of the Swedish U-21 national team. On September 5, 2008 he came as the youngest player in the history of the Swedish U-21 national team to his premiere when he replaced Ola Toivonen in the 1-0 win over the Polish youth national team with a goal from Guillermo Molins from the 73rd minute of play . With his club he reached the cup final against champions Kalmar FF , in which he was in the starting eleven and played until the 107th minute of the game. His team prevailed on penalties .

After Söder had succeeded in five goals in 14 games by the end of the 2008 season , where he was in the starting line-up eleven times, the club decided in December to tie him for three more years. In the following season, when he was given the number "11" on his back, the young striker held his regular place alongside offensive players Tobias Hysén and Pontus Wernbloom until the summer break. Not least because of this, Jörgen Lennartsson nominated him alongside his club mates Wernbloom, Mattias Bjärsmyr and Gustav Svensson for the squad for the U-21 European Championship finals in his own country in the summer. After he did not play in the group stage of the tournament, he came in the semifinals against the English junior team as a substitute for Emil Johansson for his first tournament appearance. He prepared the 3: 3 equalizer by Marcus Berg by hoe. Shortly after the start of extra time, he injured himself and thus did not experience the defeat on penalties on the pitch. His injury turned out to be a cruciate ligament tear , so he was out for the rest of the season.

In May 2010, Söder returned to the football field and after a short start-up period again earned a regular place in the attack by IFK Göteborg. In August, he heard a noise in his previously injured knee, which resulted in a meniscus injury. Shortly before the end of the season, he reported back in November of that year, but injured himself again in January due to an overload of the knee in preparation for the 2011 season . After returning to the field in the first third of the season, he was initially mainly a supplementary player. In the next two years he was in the main line-up for long stretches, although minor injuries kept him slowed. In the 2013 season he was the second-best club-internal scorer with nine goals this season behind the 14-time successful Tobias Hysén , between the 13th and 18th matchday he scored one goal in six consecutive league games. Previously, in May of that year, he was with the team in the final of the national cup against the Stockholm club Djurgårdens IF . When the score was 1-1 with goals from Hysén and Daniel Amartey , coach Mikael Stahre replaced him for David Moberg Karlsson shortly before the end of regular time , while his teammates took penalties from Philip Haglund , Mikael Dyrestam and Pontus Farnerud in the penalty shoot-out three misses by the opponent for the title.

Although still a regular player, Söder was less accurate at the beginning of the 2014 season , until the summer he only scored two goals in the championship. Nevertheless, he had aroused desires outside of Sweden, in August of that year he joined the Danish club Esbjerg fB and signed a three-year contract. At Esbjerg he integrated well. He scored four goals in 21 games in his first season there. In the following season he was used less. He only made twelve games, but made four goals again. This rate should continue to rise. In 2017, he scored nine goals in 22 games.

In 2017 his contract ended and Söder joined Sporting Lokeren . In his first and only season made a total of 36 games and seven goals in the playoffs and league. At the end of the season, Lokeren was relegated and Söder moved back to IFK Göteborg , where he was immediately placed again. In his comeback season, which he only half completed due to the different dates between Belgium and Sweden , he only made nine games and two goals. The following season was optional for him. He scored double-digit goals and was in the first eleven in almost every game. In 2020, after the restart, he was again set in the storm of Gothenburg. Before that, however, he also made his debut for the Swedish senior team . On January 12, 2020, he played over 90 minutes against Kosovo . The team from Sweden won 1-0.

successes

• Swedish Cup Winner : 2013, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "Robin Söder alla tiders yngste i U21-landslaget" ( Memento of the original dated November 11, 2017 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 June 8, 2009) 
2. ↑ ^{a b} bohuslaningen.se: "Söder om drömmen som blev sann" (accessed on June 8, 2009)
3. ↑ FC Basel is favored against IFK Göteborg. (No longer available online.) In: Tages-Anzeiger. July 30, 2008, archived from the original on July 14, 2012 ; Retrieved November 15, 2012 . 
4. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "Robin Söder förlänger med IFK Göteborg" (accessed on June 8, 2009)
5. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "U21 gentleman: EM-troops uttagen" (accessed on June 8, 2009)
6. ↑ fotboll.expressen.se: "Robin Söder skadad - nu är säsongen över" ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2009 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 June 29, 2009) 
7. ↑ ifkgoteborg.se: "Robins knä åtgärdat" (accessed on December 27, 2010)
8. ↑ fotbollskanalen.se: "Robin Söder skadad - igen" (accessed on January 10, 2011)
9. ↑ efb.dk: "Robin Söder fra IFK Göteborg til Esbjerg fB" (accessed on August 25, 2014)

Web links

• Robin Söder in the database of svenskfotboll.se
• Robin Söder in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Robin Söder in the database of weltfussball.de