Albin Ekdal

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Albin Ekdal
Albin Ekdal 2018.jpg
Personnel
birthday July 28, 1989
place of birth Bromma ,  Sweden
size 186 cm
position Attacking midfield
Juniors
Years station
2005-2006 IF Brommapojkarna
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2007-2008 IF Brommapojkarna 24 (0)
2008-2010 Juventus Turin 3 (0)
2009-2010 →  AC Siena  (loan) 26 (1)
2010-2011 Bologna FC 22 (1)
2011-2015 Cagliari Calcio 115 (8)
2015-2018 Hamburger SV 54 (1)
2018– Sampdoria Genoa 55 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2004-2006 Sweden U17 23 (5)
2007-2008 Sweden U19 8 (2)
2008-2010 Sweden U21 12 (2)
2011– Sweden 50 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of June 1, 2020

2 As of June 1, 2020

Albin Ekdal (born July 28, 1989 in Bromma , Stockholm ) is a Swedish football player . The attacking midfielder is under contract with Sampdoria Genoa and is a Swedish international .

Career

society

Ekdal completed a trial training session with English club Chelsea in 2005 at the age of 15 . However , he declined the following contract offer from the London club on the grounds that he wanted to develop further in Sweden. He began his professional career at the beginning of the 2007 season in Fotbollsallsvenskan at his home club IF Brommapojkarna . Despite a few injuries during the season, he played his way there. In December 2007 he decided to move to the Italian record champions Juventus Turin . He stayed in Sweden until the summer of 2008 to finish school and continued to play for Brommapojkarna.

On May 23, 2008, he signed a four-year contract with Juventus. He mostly played in the Primavera , the highest age group of the youth teams, with which he won the Coppa Carnevale in Viareggio in 2009 . Ekdal made his debut in the professional team on October 18, 2008 in the 1: 2 defeat in the Serie A away game at SSC Napoli , where he came on in the 75th minute for Christian Poulsen . In the 2009/10 season Ekdal played on loan for AC Siena and was relegated to Serie B with the Tuscans . In August 2010 he left Juventus and moved to Bologna FC , which owned 50% of the transfer rights. In August 2011, Ekdal moved to league rivals Cagliari Calcio .

For the 2015/16 season Ekdal moved to Hamburger SV . He received a contract that ran until June 30, 2019. In three years he played only 54 games in the Bundesliga due to injury. He scored his only goal for HSV in the second half of the 2016/17 season in the game in the Volksparkstadion against Hertha BSC in the 77th minute with the 1-0 winning goal.

On August 16, 2018, he joined Sampdoria Genoa .

National team

On August 10, 2011 he made his debut in a test match for the Swedish national team in a 1-0 win in Kharkiv against Ukraine ; he was substituted on in the 60th minute for Sebastian Larsson . At the European Football Championship 2012 in Ukraine and Poland , he was not part of the Swedish squad ; At the 2016 European Championship finals in France, he played all three of Sweden's group games. At the end of the group stage, the team was bottom of the table and eliminated. In the following qualification for the 2018 World Cup in Russia , he qualified with the Swedish national team for the relegation, in which they prevailed against Italy. In the first leg in Solna Ekdal was in the starting line-up and was replaced in the second half by Jakob Johansson due to injury ; this scored the 1-0 winner shortly afterwards. In the second leg in Milan (0-0) he was not used. Ekdal was in the Swedish squad at the World Cup finals in Russia and reached the quarter-finals with the team.

successes

Awards

  • Midfielder of the year in Sweden: 2013, 2014 and 2015

Private

Ekdal's father Lennart (* 1953) is a well-known TV presenter in Sweden .

Web links

Commons : Albin Ekdal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Albin Ekdal in the database of weltfussball.de
  • Albin Ekdal in the database of fussballdaten.de
  • Albin Ekdal in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
  • Ekdal on the website of the Swedish Association

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juve, il gioiellino Ekdal in arrivo ( Memento from July 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Albin Ekdal si presenta: "Sarò il nuovo Ingesson"
  3. ↑ cagliaricalcio.net: "Ufficiale: Ekdal al Cagliari" (Italian) accessed on August 28, 2011
  4. ↑ Cagliari Calcio Spa (ed.): In bocca al lupo, Albin. In: CAGLIARICALCIO (Official website of the club). July 18, 2015, accessed February 3, 2016 (Italian).
  5. ↑ HSV Fußball AG (Ed.): Fix: Ekdal signs a four-year contract. In: Internet presence of Hamburger SV. 2015, archived from the original on July 20, 2015 ; Retrieved July 18, 2015 .
  6. ↑ HSV transfers Ekdal to Sampdoria Genua. Retrieved August 16, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Ekdal è blucerchiato: dall'Hamburger SV a titolo definitivo - UC Sampdoria . In: UC Sampdoria . August 16, 2018 ( sampdoria.it [accessed August 16, 2018]).
  8. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match report Ukraine - Sweden (accessed on August 28, 2011)
  9. ↑ bst: Forsberg & Co .: DFB opponents Sweden with three BL-legionnaires. In: kicker online. Olympia Verlag GmbH, May 15, 2018, accessed on May 16, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Fotbollsgalan - Tidigare Vinnare - Övriga utmärkelser
  11. ^ "Arrived", In: HSV-Live from October 2015, 10, 18.
personal data
SURNAME Ekdal, Albin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromma , Stockholm