Robin Söder
Robin Söder in May 2009
Robin Söder ( born April 1, 1991 in church Magra, Alingsås Municipality ) is a Swedish football player. The striker and winger who with IFK Göteborg won the Svenska Cupen 2008, debuted in the same year at the age of 17 years to date, as the youngest player in the Swedish U- 21 team.
Career
Söder began playing football in his hometown at Magra IS before he Sollebrunns AIK joined. When eleven years old he moved with his mother to Ellos and therefore moved to Morlanda GoIF. He debuted as a fourteen- year-old in the men's team and scored within one year 105 goals in the U-14, the U -16 and the men's team of the club. Then it undertook in the summer of 2006, the former second division Stenungsunds IF. With the sixth division, he won the relay victory in the Division IV Bohuslän / Dal, but already partly trained with the youth team of IFK Gothenburg. In addition, he was appointed in the same year in the Swedish U- 15 team. In the following years, he established himself in the national youth teams.
2008 Söder moved to IFK Göteborg. First, he played in the youth team of the club, but came on July 1st of the year in the game against Trelleborg FF on his debut in Allsvenskan. He soon excelled at the Gothenburg club, the emphasis on young players sat - next Söder came under the coaching duo of Jonas Olsson and Stefan Rehn, a number of young players such as Nicklas Bärkroth, Sebastian Eriksson and Tobias Sana to regular operations in the Swedish Elite series - also in oberklassigen football as a regular scorer and was described by the press as well as internationally out stinging talent. Through his good performances he played himself into the notebook by Tommy Söderberg and Jörgen Lennartsson, the supervisors of the Swedish U- 21 team. On 5 September 2008, he was the youngest player in the history of the Swedish U -21 team to its use Premiere, when he replaced the 1-0 victory over the Polish junior national team with a goal by Guillermo Molins from the 73 minutes Ola Toivonen. With his club he reached the cup final against champions Kalmar FF, where he was in the starting and participated up to 107 minutes of play. His team prevailed on penalties.
After Söder were until the end of the 2008 five goals in 14 games, where he was in the starting eleven, managed the club decided in December, to bind him for three more years. The young striker also held in the following season, in which he received the back number "11" on the side of the offensive player Tobias Hysén and Pontus Wernbloom before the summer break his place. Not least because it nominated Jörgen Lennartsson next to his team mate Wernbloom, Mattias Bjärsmyr and Gustav Svensson for the squad for the U- 21 European Championship finals in the summer in their own country. After he did not play in the group stage of the tournament, he came in the semifinals against the English youth team as a substitute for Emil Johansson to his first tournament use. He prepared the 3-3 equalizer by Marcus Berg -heel. Shortly after the start of extra time he was injured and thus witnessed the defeat on penalties no longer on the pitch. His injury turned out to be Kreuzbandriß, so it turned out for the rest of the season.
In May 2010, Söder returned to the football field and earned after a short start-up time again a place in the attack of the IFK Göteborg. In August, he noticed a noise in his previously injured knee, whereupon a meniscus injury was found. Shortly before the end of the season he enlisted in November of the year again back, but injured himself in preparation for the season 2011 in January due to an overloading of the knee again. After his return to the place in the first third of the season, he was initially mainly reserve players.