In the series “My first place”, prominent footballers return to their roots. This time Sascha Mölders to Vogelheimer SV.

Everyone has that one club where it all began. In the case of former RWE and MSV player Sascha Mölders, it was Vogelheimer SV. This series has already appeared in the print editions of Forecasting. Now it’s also finding its way online – with a slight time delay. But the first club always remains the same.

At the tender age of three and a half, Sascha Mölders started playing football at Vogelheimer SV in Essen. But when it came to professional soccer, the early starter turned out to be a late bloomer. His next stations were Atletico Essen, SG Essen-Schönebeck, Schwarz-Weiß Essen and Wacker Bergeborbeck and had very little to do with the big game.

The attacker only joined MSV Duisburg’s reserve team at the age of 21. This makes him one of the very few professionals not to have been trained at a youth academy. But Mölders does not believe in the supposed training deficit; in fact, he even mourns his time on clay. “Many footballers don’t even know that anymore. When you grow up on a surface like that, you can take more than others. It makes me sick that my first pitch is now artificial turf. “