Victor Lindelof

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Victor Lindelof
UEFA EURO qualifiers Sweden vs Spain 20191015 Victor Nilsson Lindelöf 5.jpg
Victor Lindelöf (2019)
Personnel
Surname Victor Jörgen Nilsson Lindelöf
birthday 17th July 1994
place of birth Västerås ,  Sweden
size 187 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
IK Franke
Västerås IK
2007-2009 Västerås SK
2012-2013 Benfica Lisbon
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2010–2012 Västerås IK 40 (0)
2012-2017 Benfica Lisbon B 96 (3)
2013-2017 Benfica Lisbon 48 (2)
2017– Manchester United 82 (2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2009-2011 Sweden U-17 5 (0)
2012-2013 Sweden U-19 17 (0)
2014-2015 Sweden U-21 13 (0)
2016– Sweden 18 (1)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of November 14, 2017

Victor Lindelöf (born July 17, 1994 in Västerås ) is a Swedish football player . The defender became European champion with the Swedish U-21 national team in 2015 .

Career

society

Lindelöf started playing football at IK Franke in his hometown Västerås. He joined the youth department at Västerås SK in 2007 through the youth of Västerås IK . At the end of the 2010 season he made his debut in the third division Division 1 in the first team, with which he rose to the Superettan . As a result, he established himself in both his club and in the Swedish youth national teams in the squad. At the end of the second division season in 2012 , he rose with the team from the Superettan.

Lindelöf moved to Portugal in the junior division of Benfica Lisbon at the turn of the year 2012/13 . In the summer of 2013 he won the Portuguese youth championship, then he moved up to the club's reserve team . On the last match day of the 2014/15 season , he made his debut for the club's first team, who were already champions, in the Primeira Liga .

On June 10, 2017, Manchester United announced that they had reached an agreement with Benfica Lisbon to transfer Lindelöf. Four days later, he signed a four-year contract until the summer of 2021.

National team

In October 2014 he made his debut as part of the qualification for the U-21 European Championship 2015 in the Swedish U-21 national team, which was successfully completed. Initially not intended by the selection coach Håkan Ericson for participation in the U-21 European Championship, Lindelöf moved up to the squad a few days before the start of the tournament after Emil Krafth was injured . In the first game against Italy he was still a substitute, he was in the starting line-up in the following tournament games and reached the final against the Portuguese U-21 national team with the national team . In the penalty shoot-out , he converted the last Swedish penalty . After Patrik Carlgren then William Carvalho had parried penalty, the Swedes won their first title at a UEFA tournament. Together with his teammates Filip Helander and Oscar Lewicki , he was elected to the "Official Team of the Tournament". On March 24, 2016, he was used for the first time in an A international match against Turkey in Antalya and was in the starting line-up.

At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he was included in Sweden's squad. In all three group games he was in the starting line-up. He was one of the players who played all games over the full playing time. After the preliminary round, the team was eliminated from the bottom of the group.

On the occasion of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, he was appointed to the Swedish squad . During the course of the tournament he was used in four out of five games.

successes

Awards

Web links

Commons : Victor Lindelöf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ aftonbladet.se: "Storklubb värvar svensk 17 – åring" (accessed on July 7, 2015)
  2. ↑ de.uefa.com: "Lindelöf wants to stop buddy Bernardo Silva" (accessed on July 7, 2015)
  3. ↑ "REDS AGREE TRANSFER FOR VICTOR LINDELOF"
  4. ↑ "UNITED COMPLETE SIGNING OF VICTOR LINDELOF"
  5. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "Krafth missar U21-EM" (accessed on July 7, 2015)
  6. ↑ de.uefa.com: "U21 EURO: Official team of the tournament" (accessed on July 7, 2015)
  7. ^ Turkey - Sweden 2: 1
  8. ↑ http://www.transfermarkt.de/taca-de-portugal-placard/startseite/pokalwettbewerb/POPO?saison_id=2013
  9. ↑ Guldbollen till Victor Nilsson Lindelöf SVT, November 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Lindelof, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindelöf, Victor Jörgen Nilsson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Västerås , Sweden