Martin Ødegaard: football player biography

Martin Ødegaard-the Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a Central attacking midfielder in the Dutch club «Heerenveen” on a rental basis from Madrid «real». Since 2014 playing for the national team of Norway in football, is the youngest player-newcomer team for the whole period of its history. Passed all age teams of Norway. The growth of the player is 176 cm, weight-68 kg.

Martin Ødegaard: a biography

Born on December 17, 1998 in the city of Drammen (Norway). Is a graduate of such youth football academies as “Drammen strong” and “Stromsgodset”. His father, Hans Erik Odegaard, – former professional football player (played in “Stromsgodset” and “the Sandefjord”), is one of the founders of the club «Drammen strong”. In the same club for some time worked as a coach for his son. In 2005, when Martin was only 6 years old, his parents invested 50 thousand crowns to the club, so they converted the gravel field under artificial turf.

In the period from 2009 to 2014 midfielder Martin Ødegaard played for the youth team “Stromsgodset” among children who were older than 2-3 years. The guy was constantly playing and practicing against physically stronger players, however he coped. The coach saw him as an unrealistically huge potential, so put him in the position of the left winger that he played more with the ball and gained experience. In attack he was granted the freedom of the will, by which he made the most universal and correct decision for successful completion. At the age of twelve, Martin Ødegaard impressed football Manager Lars Carnosa during a national competition among juniors up to 16 years. That was incredible – Ødegård cope with the players that are older than 3-4 years.

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Professional career in the “Stromsgodset”

With the first team, Martin started training in 2012, when he was 13 years old. Already at that time the guy was big-game hunting by European clubs, such as the ‘Bayern Munich», «Manchester city», «Manchester United» and others. In January 2014 it was agreed that the 15-year-old Youngster will be transferred to the first team “Stromsgodset”, however, no professional contract was not signed. In the rules of the Supreme Norwegian football League stated that the game players need a professional contract. The club took the decision to include the player in B-list for the Amateur players, which allowed the Youngster to take part in three matches during the season. However, the trouble does not come alone, Martin could not train with the main squad in the daytime, because he was still receiving secondary education. So the guy was training two nights a week with a semi-professional club «Mendlen" (from the first division), in which the head coach was his father.

The Debut release on the field took place on April 13, 2014 against “Alesund”. Martin became the youngest player who played in the Norwegian League in its history.

On 5 may 2014, the Youngster still signed a professional contract with the club and became a competent player. His first goal, the young midfielder netted 16 may in a match against «Sarpsborg”, thus recording another record-the youngest "scorer" in the history of Norwegian football. In total between 2014 and 2015, Martin Ødegaard played for the club in 23 official matches and scored 5 goals.

Navigation «real Madrid”

21 January 2015 the Royal club signed an agreement with Norwegian for 3.5 million Euro (with possible increase to 9 million). It was reported that the annual salary of the Youngster will amount to 2.3 million euros. At a press conference after signing the contract, it was announced that the footballer Martin Ødegaard will train in both the first and reserve teams (“real Madrid Castilla”). Part of the first team “creamy” debuted on may 23, 2015 in the last match of the season against “Getafe” when he replaced Cristiano Ronaldo. The match ended with the score 7-3 in favor of the ‘Galacticos”, and Ødegaard became the youngest player in the Spanish League (16 years and 156 days).

Unfortunately, this was the only match of the Norwegian part of the first team. In the period from 2015 to 2017, the Norwegian has played for “Castilho" 62 of the match and scored to your account 5 goals.

Rentals in “Heerenveen”

January 10, 2017, the media reported that Norwegian Prodigy Martin Ødegaard will play for the Dutch “Just” on a rental basis.

Currently, the midfielder has already held more than 20 official appearances for the first team.