Alexander Ring

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Alexander Ring
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Alexander Ring (2015)
Personnel
birthday April 9, 1991
place of birth Helsinki ,  Finland
size 176 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
0000-2000 VfL Lannesdorf
2000-2008 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
2009 HJK Helsinki
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2009-2010 Club 04 34 (9)
2010-2013 HJK Helsinki 27 (2)
2010 →  Tampere United  (loan) 4 (1)
2012-2013 →  Borussia Mönchengladbach  (loan) 14 (0)
2013-2017 1. FC Kaiserslautern 76 (8)
2017– New York City FC 63 (4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Finland U18 1 (0)
Finland U-19 6 (1)
Finland U-20 7 (1)
2011-2017 Finland 44 (2)
1 Only league games are given.
As of April 1, 2019

Alexander Ring (born April 9, 1991 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish football player .

He is under contract with New York City FC . Before that he played for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga . From 2011 to 2018 Ring played 44 games for the Finnish national team , in which he scored two goals.

Career

In the club

Alexander Ring 2012

Ring emigrated to Germany with his parents in 1994 because his father found a job with an automobile manufacturer. In Bonn , Ring started playing football at VfL Lannesdorf and in 1998 moved to the youth department at Bayer 04 Leverkusen . In early 2009, Ring returned to Finland with his parents. The reason for this was on the one hand his academic achievements, on the other hand his mother's homesickness and his father also received a job offer from Finland; Ring was in Germany at the International School and then in the German grammar school before he went to the sports university after returning to Finland. Ring moved to the youth department of HJK Helsinki . In between he also played in the club's second team, which appeared as Klubi-04 Helsinki .

At the beginning of the 2010 season , Ring was integrated into the professional team. He made his professional debut on July 31, 2010 (16th matchday) with his substitution against Vaasan PS . In August 2010 he was loaned to league rivals Tampere United until the end of the year . In his first game for the Tampere club on 10 September 2010 against FC Lahti , Ring was in the starting eleven and in his second league game he scored his first goal against Turku PS . After his loan contract ended, Ring returned to the HJK Helsinki for the 2011 season, where he fought for a regular place. With HJK Helsinki he participated in the qualification for the Champions League 2011/12 and after being eliminated in the play-off round for the Europa League 2011/12 , in which the club could not prevail against FC Schalke 04 . At the end of 2011, Ring won the championship and the club cup with HJK Helsinki.

During the 2011/12 winter break, Borussia Mönchengladbach Ring was on loan until June 30, 2013. Ring played his first Bundesliga game for Borussia on March 10, 2012 (25th matchday) in a 0-0 home game against SC Freiburg , when he came on for Oscar Wendt in the 71st minute . At the end of the season, Borussia Mönchengladbach occupied fourth place in the table, which was equivalent to qualifying for the play-offs for the Champions League . In the following season , the renewed qualification for international business was missed. Borussia Mönchengladbach did not take the purchase option.

For the 2013/14 season , Ring moved to the German second division club 1. FC Kaiserslautern , with whom he signed a contract that was valid until June 30, 2017. On July 20, 2013 (1st matchday) he made his debut for FCK in a 1-0 win in the away game against SC Paderborn 07 . In the first two seasons, FCK missed promotion to the Bundesliga as fourth in the table, before they finished tenth in the table in the 2015/16 season.

In January 2017, Ring moved to the US professional league MLS for New York City FC .

National team

Ring played once for the Finnish U-18 national team and six times for the U-19s. On June 7, 2011, he came in Solna in the 0: 5 defeat in the European Championship qualifier against the selection of Sweden for his debut for the Finnish national team . Ring could neither qualify for a world or European championship with the national team. With the team but he won by a 2: 0 victory over Estonia to third place at the 2014 Baltic Cup . He played his last game for the Finnish national team on September 2, 2017 in the World Cup qualifier against Iceland in Tampere , where he scored the 1-0 winner with his second international goal. On September 30, 2018, Ring retired from the national team at the age of 27 after a total of 44 appearances.

successes

National team
societies

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fck.de
  2. ↑ a b Alexander Ring - "Mentally I'm not a Finn"
  3. ↑ Gladbach: Rumors about youngsters: "Six" ring - one for Favre? , Kicker Online (accessed December 5, 2011)
  4. ↑ Leverkusen U19: Dennis Krol returns - a Barca star for Bayer
  5. ↑ "Favre Makes You Better Every Day," Spox, November 16, 2017, accessed November 20, 2018
  6. ↑ Borussia sign Alexander Ring
  7. ↑ Streich gets his first away point - Jantschke blocked
  8. ↑ Alexander Ring becomes a Red Devil ( Memento from June 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Alexander Ring leaves 1. FC Kaiserslautern. (No longer available online.) In: 1. FC Kaiserslautern . 1. FC Kaiserslautern e.V. V., archived from the original ; accessed on February 1, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Sweden 5: 0 Finland , weltfussball.de
  11. ↑ See the game data on transfermarkt.de
  12. ↑ Alexander Ring jättää Huuhkajat
personal data
SURNAME Ring, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki , Finland