Leon Balogun

Leon Balogun
with the national team (2017)
Personnel
Surname	Leon Aderemi Balogun
birthday	June 28, 1988
place of birth	Berlin ,  Germany
size	190 cm
position	Central defender
Juniors
Years	station
	Hertha BSC
0000-2006	Hertha Zehlendorf
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2006-2007	Hertha Zehlendorf	7 (0)
2007-2008	Türkiyemspor Berlin	29 (4)
2008-2010	Hanover 96 II	36 (1)
2009-2010	Hannover 96	3 (0)
2010–2012	Werder Bremen II	49 (4)
2010–2012	Werder Bremen	3 (0)
2012-2014	Fortuna Dusseldorf	28 (0)
2012-2013	Fortuna Düsseldorf II	3 (1)
2014-2015	SV Darmstadt 98	21 (4)
2015-2018	1. FSV Mainz 05	52 (1)
2017	1. FSV Mainz 05 II	1 (0)
2018-2020	Brighton & Hove Albion	8 (1)
2020	→  Wigan Athletic  (loan)	11 (0)
2020–	Glasgow Rangers	3 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2014–	Nigeria	32 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of August 12, 2020 2 As of July 10, 2019

Leon Aderemi Balogun (born June 28, 1988 in Berlin ) is a German - Nigerian soccer player .

Career

societies

Balogun played for Hertha BSC and Hertha Zehlendorf in his youth . For the latter, he made seven appearances in the Verbandsliga Berlin in the 2006/07 season before moving to Türkiyemspor in 2007 . For this club he played 29 games in the Oberliga Nordost , in which he scored four goals. In the 2008/09 season he was signed by Hannover 96 and was part of the professional squad. After he had only played in the second team in the Regionalliga Nord , he made his Bundesliga debut on April 19, 2009 (28th matchday) . In the 1: 2 defeat in the away game against Hamburger SV , he came on for Gaëtan Krebs in the 85th minute . During the 2010 summer break, Balogun moved to league rivals Werder Bremen . For the 2012/13 season he went to Bundesliga club Fortuna Düsseldorf , who provided him with a contract that ran until June 30, 2014. On October 2, 2014, he joined the second division club SV Darmstadt 98 . He received a contract with the promoted team until the end of the 2014/15 season . Despite the promotion to the 1st Bundesliga, Balogun did not extend his expiring contract and signed a three-year contract with 1. FSV Mainz 05 .

After the end of his contract, he joined Brighton & Hove Albion for two years in May 2018 . As of January 31, 2020, second division Wigan Athletic Balogun loaned out for six months.

In July 2020 Balogun moved to Scotland for the Glasgow Rangers for an initial year .

National team

On March 5, 2014 Balogun made his A international debut for Nigeria in a 0-0 friendly against Mexico . He was substituted on in the second half, but had to leave the pitch 20 minutes later with a broken metatarsus.

He was in the Nigerian squad for the 2018 World Cup and was used there in all three group matches over the full season.

successes

• Promotion to the Bundesliga : 2015

Web links

Commons : Leon Balogun  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Leon Balogun in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Leon Balogun in the database of weltfussball.de
• Balogun on the Brighton & Hove Albion website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Leon Balogun leaves Werder Bremen ( memento from June 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ); Announcement from Werder Bremen from April 26, 2012.
2. ↑ Fortuna signs Leon Balogun ( Memento of April 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ); News from Fortuna Düsseldorf dated April 26, 2012.
3. ↑ Lilies strengthen themselves with Leon Balogun ( memento of October 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); Report from SV Darmstadt 98 from October 2, 2014.
4. ↑ Balogun also leaves Darmstadt. In: kicker.de. June 14, 2015, accessed June 15, 2015.
5. ^ Mainz 05 signs Leon Balogun. In: mainz05.de. 19th June 2015.
6. ↑ BALOGUN'S ADMIRATION FOR ALBION'S JOURNEY . ( brightonandhovealbion.com [accessed May 22, 2018]).
7. ↑ ^{a b} Leon Balogun moves to the Premier League. Retrieved May 22, 2018 . 
8. ^ Latics-complete-loan-signing-of-Brighton-Hove-Albion-defender-Leon-Balogun. Retrieved February 22, 2020 (English). 
9. ^ Rangers Sign Leon Balogun. In: rangers.co.uk. Retrieved July 25, 2020 (English). 
10. ↑ Broken metatarsus on international debut. In: spox.com. March 6, 2014