Miklos Molnar

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Miklos Molnar
Personal information
Full name Miklos Jon Molnar
Date of birth (1970-04-10) 10 April 1970 (age 54)
Place of birth Copenhagen, Denmark
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
B 1908
Fremad Amager
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1987–1988 Hvidovre IF 31 (7)
1989 Frem 26 (14)
1990–1991 Standard Liège 41 (16)
1991–1992 → Servette (loan) 34 (18)
1992–1994 Saint-Étienne 19 (2)
1994 Lyngby 18 (6)
1994–1995 FSV Frankfurt 20 (12)
1995–1996 Herfølge Boldklub 21 (10)
1996–1997 Lyngby 38 (29)
1997–2000 Sevilla 44 (16)
2000
Kansas City Wizards
 17 (12)
2011
B1908
 1 (0)
Total 310 (142)
International career
1986–1988 Denmark U19 7 (4)
1989–1992 Denmark U21 21 (8)
1990–2000 Denmark 18 (2)
Managerial career
2011
B1908 (director of football)[1]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Miklos Jon Molnar (

caps for the Denmark national football team, and represented his country at the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000 tournaments. He was also a member of the Denmark team competing at the 1992 Summer Olympics
.

After retiring from football in 2000, Molnar took up triathlon and competed semi-professionally. In 2005, he ran under three hours (2:59:20) in the Copenhagen Marathon and under 10 hours (9:50) in an Ironman in Austria.

Biography

Born in

semi-professionally[3] for top-flight club Boldklubben Frem in 1989. Molnar got his senior level breakthrough when he became joint top goalscorer of the 1989 Danish 1st Division championship with 14 goals, as Frem finished eighth of 14 teams. He was selected for the Danish under-21 national team in June 1989. Several clubs were interested in buying Molnar, including Danish club AGF,[4] English club Chelsea, French club Olympique Lyonnais and Standard Liège from Belgium.[2]

In January 1990, Molnar moved abroad to play professionally for Standard Liège. In his first full season at Liège, Molnar scored 11 goals in 26 games, and he was called up to the Danish national team by national manager

loaned out.[5] He moved from Liège to Swiss club Servette FC in the summer 1991. Molnar became league top goalscorer, as he scored 18 goals in 34 games for Servette in the Swiss 1991–92 Nationalliga A championship.[6]

Molnar was an integral part of the Danish under-21 national team from 1991 to 1992, forming a successful attacking partnership with

1992 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, which qualified Denmark for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He was named 1991 Danish under-21 Player of the Year. Molnar played all of Denmark's three games at the 1992 Olympics final tournament, but was sent off for a physical scuffle with a defender in Denmark's final game before elimination against the Australia under-23s.[7]
He ended his under-21 career after the 1992 Olympics, having scored a total eight goals in 21 caps.

Having ended his loan at Servette, Molnar looked to find a new club in the summer 1992. Molnar was bought by French club AS Saint-Étienne for FRF 6.000.000.[8] He did not fit into Saint-Étienne's technical short passing tactics, and did not find goalscoring success at the club.

He was released from his contract in January 1994, and moved back home to Denmark. In February 1994, he agreed to play for

relegation into the lower Regionalliga
division.

Molnar went home to Denmark, and started playing for Superliga club

David Nielsen left the club in June 1996, Molnar moved back to his old club to fill the spot. He was the leading goal scorer in the 1996–97 Danish Superliga with 26 goals in 33 games, and was recalled to the Danish national team by new national manager Bo Johansson, after a hiatus of more than five years. After three goals in five games at the start of the 1997–98 Superliga season, Molnar was sold to Spanish club Sevilla FC in the secondary Segunda División league, where he joined fellow Danish international Thomas Rytter
.

In his first year at Sevilla, Molnar scored ten goals in 27 games, and he was included in the Danish squad for the

Chicago Fire
1–0.

On 2 October 2011, he got a comeback, playing 20 minutes for his childhood-club,

B1908, in a 2nd division game.[9]

Honours

References

  1. ^ "Molnar sportschef hos 8'erne" (in Danish). bold.dk. 28 June 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  2. ^
    Berlingske Tidende
    (in Danish).
  3. ^ Simmelsgaard, Kim (23 December 1990). "Du milde Molnar". B.T. (in Danish).
  4. Berlingske Tidende
    (in Danish).
  5. ^ Pilegaard, Ib (17 July 1991). "Miklos Molnar til Schweiz". B.T. (in Danish).
  6. ^ "Super League .:. Top scorers' list". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
  7. Berlingske Tidende
    (in Danish).
  8. ^ Uno, Steen (21 July 1992). "Per sagde go' for Molnar". B.T. (in Danish).
  9. ^ Houlind, Søren (3 October 2011). "Comeback-Molnar: Ingen badebillet" (in Danish). bold.dk. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
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