Melayro Bogarde

Melayro Bogarde
Personnel
Surname	Melayro Chakewno Jalaino Bogarde
birthday	May 28, 2002
place of birth	Rotterdam ,  Netherlands
size	184 cm
position	Central defender
Juniors
Years	station
00000000	RVV Swift Boys
2009-2018	Feyenoord Rotterdam
2018–	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2020–	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	2 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2017	Netherlands U15	3 (1)
2017-2018	Netherlands U16	3 (1)
2018-2019	Netherlands U17	17 (0)
2019–	Netherlands U18	3 (1)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20

Melayro "Mela" Chakewno Jalaino Bogarde (born May 28, 2002 in Rotterdam ) is a Dutch football player . The defender is under contract with TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in Germany and is a young Dutch national player.

Career

society

Bogarde was discovered as a player in the RVV Swift Boys by scouts from Feyenoord and was then trained as a footballer in its youth training center. In the summer of 2018 he left his hometown and moved to the academy of the German Bundesliga club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim , with which he signed a contract that was valid until June 2021. There he received a place in a player boarding school, was in the Wilhelmi-Gymnasium Sinsheim logged and learned together with other foreign players German . Some English Premier League clubs had also expressed interest in him in advance .

The defender spent the first half of his first season in the club's U17s, and in the second half of the season he was integrated into the A-Junior Bundesliga team . Bogarde played in 25 cross-competition games for the TSG Juniors, including three final round matches in the UEFA Youth League , where they failed in the semifinals against eventual winners FC Porto . After the Dutchman had already been able to train with the professionals, head coach and compatriot Alfred Schreuder appointed him to the matchday squad four times. On matchday 29 at the end of May 2020, Bogarde was finally in the starting line-up in Mainz as a right defender, followed by a brief assignment one matchday later. As sixth in the table, the Dutchman was able to qualify for the Europa League with TSG and moved up to the professional squad in summer 2020.

National team

Bogarde has been playing for the KNVB's junior teams since the U15 , so far his coach has always been Peter van der Veen. For the U17s , the defender played all the games at the 2019 European Championship , in which the Netherlands beat Italy 4-2 in the final ; it was the second European title in a row. At the World Cup , which will take place later in 2019 , Bogarde and the Netherlands took 4th place.

successes

National team

• U17 European Champion : 2019

Personal

Melayro is the great-nephew of former Dutch international Winston Bogarde .

Web links

• Melayro Bogarde in the database of weltfussball.de
• Melayro Bogarde in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Melayro Bogarde in the database of kicker.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Melayro Bogarde: Courageous step from Rotterdam to Hoffenheim , achtzehn99.de, accessed on May 30, 2020
2. ↑ Hoffenheim defender Melayro Bogarde: Why I resisted Man Utd, Man City , tribalfootball.com, accessed on May 30, 2020 (English)