Samuel Holmén
Samuel Holmén in jersey Fenerbahçe (2013 )
Samuel Tobias Holmén ( born June 28, 1984 in Anne Lund ) is a Swedish football player. The midfielder, who made his debut in the Swedish national team in 2006, won in his career once the Swedish Championship and also both the Swedish and the Danish Cup competition. In June 2013 he signed a three-year contract with the Turkish Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe Istanbul.
Career
Association
Career start time and title in Sweden
Holmén played in the youth initially at Annelunds IF. In 1998 he moved to the youth department of IF Elfsborg. In 2002 he was appointed to the senior squad, but was initially only in the cup competition for use. The following year he made his debut under coach Anders Grönhagen for the team in the Allsvenskan and quickly established himself as a regular player in the middle of the Association of Borås. Although IF Elfsborg in 2003 succeeded in the league, only the tenth place in the standings, in the cup Holmén moved but with the club a the final. There he stood on 1 November in Råsundastadion in the starting lineup. Two goals from Lars Nilsson against Assyriska FF 2-0 success of the midfielder won on the side of Hans Berggren, Andreas Klarström and Jonas Lunden his first national title. Even after Magnus Haglund took over as coach from the following season, Holmén belonged to the permanent employees of the club. In the 2006 became Holmén at his club for regular goalscorer. Together with Anders Svensson led the midfielder with seven goals this season, the internal scorers and thus contributed decisively to the fact that IF Elfsborg for the first time since 1961, won the Swedish championship title.
Move abroad
Shortly before the end of the transfer window in summer 2007 left Holmén after a further half of the season with IF Elfsborg Sweden and moved to Brøndby IF in the Super League. When multiple Danish champions, who had slipped into midfield in the league, he signed a four-year contract. With the reigning title holder of the Royal League, for the Holmén in his first season was able to record 23 league inserts and three goals this season, he reached only an eighth place in the standings. However, the midfielder with Brøndby IF moved into the Cup final, where the team met with Esbjerg fB. After Holmén had his colors shot lead early, succeeded with goals from Max von Schlebrügge and Martin Retov with two goals by Søren Rieks by a 3-2 triumph in the competition and thus the entry into the UEFA Cup in 2008/09. While he stood by his club in all 33 games of the season on the court and moved with five goals this season on the side of Stefán Gíslason, Alexander Farnerud and Jan Kristiansen in third place behind champions FC Copenhagen and Odense BK in the qualifying round of the Europa League, he missed as a regular force in the middle of the country's selection of qualifying for the world Cup finals. In the following season he was top performers in the Danish first division, although minor injuries allowed him only 27 league bets.
For the 2010/11 season he moved for a transfer fee of 2.2 million euros to the Turkish Süper Lig club Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor. Istanbul BB had had in the previous season problems to occupy the position of defensive midfielder: The funding for this task " 6 " and Marcus Vinícius Barbosa had failed in part due to an injury or could not fill as desired this position. Therefore, the club undertook for the upcoming season Holmén. This established himself straight into the team and got over the season very good reviews. In his first season he achieved with his team important victories against the big three Istanbul clubs Fenerbahce, Besiktas Istanbul and Galatasaray. The performance of the defensive player of the trade press found special mention. At the end of the season the team reached a complete surprise for the first time in club history the final of the Turkish Football Cup. After the final encounter had gone with 2:2 to end, they lost on penalties. After this encounter, Holmen was voted unanimously to player of the finals. After his first season were interested in the big clubs for him. Special Galatasaray tried long a commitment. , They then failed due to excessive transfer fee. In his second season he again showed a convincing performance and occupied by his club to sixth place in the table.
Parallel Holmén had also established itself in the Swedish Nationelf with which he qualified as best runners-up qualifying directly for the final tournament. Consequently coach Erik Hamrén called him shortly before the end of season in his 23 player squad for the European Championship finals. Immediately after the end of season, several teams sought his services - among other things, particularly Bursaspor and Trabzonspor - because of the upcoming European Football Championship in 2012 but did not change until the start of the tournament to conditions.
After his club Istanbul BB summer 2013 missed the league, Holmén moved to city rivals Fenerbahce.
National
After the jump into the starting eleven at his club, he was appointed by junior coach Tommy Söderberg in August of the same year in the Swedish U- 21 team, where he was employed in a 2-0 win over the Greek junior national team as a substitute for Andreas Johansson for the first time. In the rest of the season he was able to hold in the national team in the play- off matches to qualify for the U-21 European Championship in 2004 against the Spanish U- 21 team, he sat as a substitute but only on the bench. In the summer of 2004, he was part of the squad at the U- 21 European Championship and received the jersey with the back number "8". In the course of the tournament, he came in three games for use, including the semi-final defeat against the Serbian U-21 team in a penalty shootout. In the match for third place, which with a 2:3 defeat ended a goal by Carlitos in the 114th minute in extra time game, he again sat on the substitutes' bench. After the tournament, he was still a member team and joined with her in the qualification to the next U-21 European Championship, where the team but as a group, third behind Croatia and Hungary missed the finals. In addition to his regular gates at IF Elfsborg he had established himself as a regular in the U-21 national team, with whom he took part in the qualifying for the European Championship finals in 2007. After this, the first game was won against the Macedonian youth team 3-1, he was the hit on the intermediate 1-0 lead in a 2-0 victory over the Danish U-21 selection crucial to re- making the play - Off games at. There, however, he failed in September 2006 with the team after a 3-0 away win, where he was again among the scorers, by a 0-5 home defeat to the Serbian Junior National Team.
Holmen's appearances in Allsvenskan and the junior national team were rewarded in the fall of 2006 with the initial appointment to the senior team by coach Lars Lagerback, as he nachrückte after rejections by Anders Svensson and Olof Mellberg. On 15 November 2006 he made his debut in Le Mans in the 0-1 defeat against Ivory Coast with a goal by Didier Drogba in the national team when he came on in the 85th minute for Daniel Andersson. Be After Holmén established at Brøndby IF and after he had been hitherto always taken into account only irregularly by Lagerback in the national team, he succeeded in his fifth international match in a 1-0 win against the Costa Rican national selection during a South American tour with the game-winning hit first international goal. Despite a good season Holmén was not considered for selection at the Swedish Championship 2008 in Austria and Switzerland, but was able to after the tournament in the national squad establish. In the 2-1 victory over Hungary on 10 September 2008 as part of the qualification for the World Cup 2010 with the goal to temporary 2-0 lead he achieved his first competitive goal in the National Jersey.
Achievements
- With IF Elfsborg: Swedish Champion ( 1): 2006
- Swedish Cup Winners ( 1): 2003
- With Brøndby IF: Danish Cup Winner ( 1): 2008
- With Istanbul BB: Turkish Cup finalist (1 ): 2011