Kristoffer Ajer

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Kristoffer Ajer
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Ajer in the jersey of Celtic (2018)
Personnel
Surname Kristoffer Vassbakk Ajer
birthday April 17, 1998
place of birth Rælingen , Norway
size 198 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
2003-2009 Rælingen FK
2010-2014 Lillestrøm SK
2014-2016 Start Kristiansand
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2014-2016 Start Kristiansand 54 (9)
2016– Celtic Glasgow 80 (3)
2017 →  FC Kilmarnock  (loan) 16 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2013 Norway U15 4 (0)
2014 Norway U16 10 (0)
2015– Norway U17 3 (1)
2015– Norway U21 0 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of May 19, 2020

2 As of October 5, 2015

Kristoffer Vassbakk Ajer (born April 17, 1998 in Rælingen , Norway ) is a Norwegian football player on the position of midfielder who has been in the squad of the Scottish first division club Celtic Glasgow since 2016 . At 16 years and 355 days, he was the youngest captain in the history of the Tippeligaen on April 7, 2015 in the first round match of the 2015 game year against his former club Lillestrøm SK .

Club career

Born in Norway, Ajer began his career as a football player in 2003 in the youth division of the lower-class Rælingen FK in the municipality of Rælingen in the province of Akershus . There he went through all youth leagues before moving to Lillestrøm, a few kilometers away, to the local professional club Lillestrøm SK in 2010 . Here he was also used in various youth teams and was noticed early on because of his goal-scoring threat. After he was still in action for the U-14 team of the club in 2012, he made his debut for the second combat team of Lillestrøm SK in 2013 with play in the multi-track fourth-class 3rd division and was again successful as a goalscorer. After he also made his debut in the U-16 and U-19 teams of the club this year, where he was most frequently used in the latter, from 2014 onwards he was already doing more league appearances for the second team of the Oslo suburban club. Subsequently, he was also in the U-19 team to use and changed, especially because his parents with him to Kristiansand pulled out while the current game year to the local professional club IK Start . At the start he was able to convince quickly and came to his professional league debut after only a few appearances in the U-19 and in the second team with play in the fifth group of the 3rd division.

He made his debut at the age of 16 years and 93 days on the 16th matchday of the Tippeligaen 2014 , when he played for the Costa Rican on July 19, 2014 in a 2-1 home win over FK Bodø / Glimt from the 87th minute Fernando Paniagua came out onto the lawn. He became the youngest player used in the Tippeligaen in the history of the club, surpassing the record set by Claus Eftevaag since August 10, 1986 , who made his debut at the age of 16 years and 233 days. Ajer was then used by head coach Mons Ivar Mjelde for the remainder of the game year, initially mainly towards the end of the game, in almost every game. After he contributed an assist to Ernest Asante's goal to make the final score 2: 3 against Strømsgodset IF on August 15 in his fourth league appearance , he succeeded on September 28, 2014, his eighth official professional league game, in a 3-1 home win over the Sarpsborg 08 FF scored his first goal when he scored his team's 1-0 lead in minute 21 following preparatory work by Costa Rican Bismark Acosta , making him the youngest first division scorer in the club's history. During this time, the young midfielder, who can be used in various midfield positions, but increasingly on the defensive, was widely courted and completed a test training session at the Italian top club AS Roma . By the end of the season, when Start barely managed to stay in the league, Kristoffer Ajer had made 13 top division appearances and one goal.

In the following game year 2015 Ajer was used by Mons Ivar Mjelde as a regular player. At 16 years and 355 days, he was the youngest captain in the history of the Tippeligaen on April 7, 2015 in the first round match of the 2015 game year against his former club Lillestrøm SK. After that, he should lead his team once again as team captain this season. In the first four rounds still in the defensive midfield, the coach quickly recognized the increasingly obvious offensive power of the 17-year-old at the time and let him play in the offensive midfield and even as a center forward for a short time, where he did it in the first six Rounds had already achieved two goals and as many assists. After he was used again in various midfield positions, he was the sole match winner in a 2-0 away win on May 30, 2015, when he scored both goals for his team after preparatory work by Matthías Vilhjálmsson and Solomon Owello . From this encounter, Kristoffer Ajer was only used in the central and offensive midfield and retained his regular positions even after the coaching change, which took place between the end of August and the beginning of September and, after long-time coach Mons Ivar Mjelde, the previous assistant coach of the professional team and head coach of the second team, Bård Borgersen , brought. To date (as of October 5, 2015), the much sought-after offensive player has made 26 league appearances, scoring eight goals and preparing another four for his teammates. There are also two appearances in the 2015 NM Cup , in which he and the team were eliminated 4-0 against third division Vindbjart FK in the second round , but even within the 5-0 win in the first round against fourth division FK Vigør Scored four goals in 14 minutes.

During the 2015 season, Ajer was also in discussions with several top European clubs; including at Celtic Glasgow , who sent out a scout in August 2015 and followed the young Norwegian’s performance for several weeks. In addition, even were English clubs Arsenal , Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur interested in the emerging Norwegian offensive talent; or with Hertha BSC also a German representative. Also from the end of August 2015 he was courted by the German first division club Borussia Mönchengladbach ; however, there was no change here either. From January 5, 2016, he was in a one-week trial training session at the Scottish first division club Celtic Glasgow, which is trained by his compatriot Ronny Deila . In this he was able to convince the coach so that he signed a contract in Glasgow that will run from July 1, 2016. It was officially presented on June 15, 2016. In January 2017, Ajer was loaned out to league rivals FC Kilmarnock until the end of the season .

National team career

Kristoffer Ajer received his first call-up to a Norwegian youth national team in 2013, when he played for the U-15 national team in his home country for the first time on May 1, 2013 in a 0-0 draw against his peers from Montenegro at an international youth tournament in Carinthia has been. After he was used the next day in a 2-1 defeat against his colleagues from Canada , two more international appearances followed in September of the same year, in which he also remained goalless. After four U-15 internationals, he made his debut for the U-16 national team of Norway in 2014 when he played through the full match time in a 3-0 win over the U-16s of Scotland on January 20, 2014 . By the end of the year, the young midfielder had made ten official U-16 international appearances.

On October 8, 2014 Ajer made his debut for the Norwegian U-17 national team when he qualified for the U-17 European Championship 2015 in a 3-0 win over Albania's U-16 national team at the Skënderbeu stadium in Korça ran up and also scored a goal once. After another European Championship qualifier against Austria's U-17s in October 2014, he was back on the pitch for the full length of the game in a 4-1 defeat against the U-17s of neighboring Sweden in La Manga, Spain . Mainly due to his success in the league, the tall player was called up for the first time in the U-21 national team of his home country in 2015, but has not yet been used for this (as of October 5, 2015).

successes

with Celtic Glasgow:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kristoffer Ajer transfer market
  2. ↑ a b Ajer blir tidenes yngste kaptein (Norwegian), accessed October 5, 2015
  3. ↑ Her blir han tidenes yngste Start-spiller (Norwegian), accessed on October 5, 2015
  4. ↑ a b Start-spiller Skal trene med europeisk storklubb (Norwegian), accessed on October 5, 2015
  5. ↑ Celtic send scout to watch Norwegian sensation Kristoffer Ajer , accessed October 5, 2015
  6. ↑ Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur monitor Kristoffer Ajer? (English), accessed October 5, 2015
  7. ^ Tottenham -interest for Ajer (17) (Norwegian), accessed October 5, 2015
  8. ↑ Start i dialog med flere klubber om Ajer (17) (Norwegian), accessed on October 6, 2015
  9. ^ Kristoffer Ajer: Celtic take Norwegian midfielder on trial BBC Sport, accessed on January 6, 2016
  10. ↑ Kristoffer Ajer: Celtic sign teenage midfielder on four-year deal BBC Sport, accessed on February 17, 2016
  11. ↑ Kristoffer Ajer: A dream to play for Brendan Rodgers' Celtic Celtic.net, accessed June 15, 2016
  12. ↑ Kilmarnock sign Celtic's Kristoffer Ajer on loan BBC Sport, accessed January 20, 2017
  13. ↑ MONTENEGRO (U-15) - NORGE (U-15) (Norwegian), accessed October 5, 2015
  14. ↑ Skottland (U-16) - NORGE (U-16) (Norwegian), accessed on October 5, 2015
  15. ↑ ALBANIA (U-16) - NORGE (U-16) (Norwegian), accessed on October 5, 2015
  16. ↑ SVERIGE (U-17) - NORGE (U-17) (Norwegian), accessed on October 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Ajer, Kristoffer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ajer, Kristoffer Vassbakk (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Norway