Callum McGregor

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Callum McGregor
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McGregor in the shirt of Scotland (2019)
Personnel
Surname Callum William McGregor
birthday June 14, 1993
place of birth GlasgowScotland
size 180 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
2001–2012 Celtic Glasgow
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2013– Celtic Glasgow 177 (31)
2013-2014 →  Notts County  (loan) 37 (12)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2008 Scotland U15 2 0(0)
2008 Scotland U16 3 0(1)
2009-2010 Scotland U17 8 0(8)
2010-2011 Scotland U19 8 0(2)
2012 Scotland U20 1 0(0)
2013-2014 Scotland U21 5 0(1)
2017– Scotland 19 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of May 19, 2020

2 As of November 19, 2019

Callum McGregor (born June 14, 1993 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish football player . The midfielder plays for Celtic Glasgow in the Scottish Premiership and in the Scottish national team .

Career

society

McGregor in a game for Celtic Glasgow (2018)

Callum McGregor was born in the Scottish city of Glasgow , where he began his football career with Celtic FC . By 2012, McGregor played in the Youth Academy of Celtic . In his final year, which McGregor should complete in the junior division of Celtic , he managed a hat trick in the successful final of the Scottish Youth Cup against Queen of the South , which was played in Hampden Park . In August 2013 McGregor was loaned to the English third division club Notts County until January 2014 . In January the loan was extended until the end of the season. For Notts County McGregor completed 37 of 46 possible league games and scored 12 goals. He was the team's top scorer ahead of strikers Ronan Murray , James Spencer and Jack Grealish and defender Alan Sheehan . For the 2014/15 season he returned to his home club, where he tried to recommend himself under the new team manager Ronny Deila . For Celtic , McGregor scored the winning goal in the first leg of the second qualifying round of the Champions League against KR Reykjavík , in the first competitive game. In the next two rounds he was able to score two more goals against Legia Warsaw and NK Maribor . His league game debut in the Scottish Premiership for Celtic (before the loan to Notts County he remained without use for Glasgow in the league) he gave against FC St. Johnstone on the 2nd match day; in the 84th minute he was also able to score a goal. In August 2014, McGregor extended his contract with the Bhoys for another five years.

National team

Callum McGregor has played for Scotland internationally since 2008. On April 1, 2008 he made his debut in the U-15 national team against Belgium. In the same year McGregor came in the following U-16 to his debut against the junior selection from Wales. The captain midfielder scored as many goals in eight games for the U-17 between 2009 and 2010, three against Malta alone. Further assignments followed from 2010 in the U-19 and U-20 and from 2013 in the U-21 . In September 2014 he was called up for the first time by national coach Gordon Strachan for the Scottish national soccer team . It wasn't until three years later that he made his debut for Scotland. On November 9, 2017, he played for the first time in the senior team against the Netherlands in Aberdeen .

successes

with Celtic Glasgow:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Queen of the South unable to contain McGregor as Celtic romp to another cup victory. heraldscotland.com, April 24, 2012, accessed July 25, 2014 .
  2. Callum McGregor: Notts County sign Celtic midfielder on loan. BBC Sport, August 7, 2013, accessed July 25, 2014 .
  3. Transfer window: Celtic's Callum McGregor rejoins Notts County. BBC Sport, January 24, 2014, accessed July 25, 2014 .
  4. Callum McGregor proud to be Notts County's top scorer. (No longer available online.) Nottinghampost.com, April 30, 2014, archived from the original on August 10, 2014 ; accessed on July 25, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nottinghampost.com
  5. Callum McGregor: I will fight for my place. sportsmole.co.uk, July 5, 2014, accessed July 25, 2014 .
  6. KR Reykjavík 0: 1 (0: 0) Celtic. BBC Sport, July 5, 2014, accessed July 25, 2014 .
  7. ^ St. Johnstone 0: 3 (0: 0) Celtic. BBC Sport, August 13, 2014, accessed September 1, 2014 .
  8. ^ Celtic's Callum McGregor signs new five-year contract. BBC Sport, August 29, 2014, accessed September 1, 2014 .
  9. Scotland 2: 0 (1: 0) Belgium. Scottishfa, April 1, 2008, accessed July 25, 2014 .
  10. Scotland 2: 1 (1: 0) Wales. Scottishfa, October 17, 2008, accessed July 25, 2014 .
  11. ^ Malta 0: 8 (0: 3) Scotland. Scottishfa, January 13, 2010, accessed July 25, 2014 .
  12. ^ Gordon Strachan calls up Callum McGregor and Craig Gordon. BBC Sport, August 25, 2014, accessed September 1, 2014 .
  13. Scotland 0: 1 (0: 1) Netherlands. Scottish FA, November 9, 2017, accessed April 3, 2018 .