Melker Hallberg
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Charles Melker Otto Hallberg | ||
| Date of birth | 20 October 1995 | ||
| Place of birth | Ljungbyholm, Sweden | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team |
Ascoli (on loan from Udinese) | ||
| Number | 24 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Möre BK | |||
| 2010–2011 | Kalmar FF | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2012–2014 | Kalmar FF | 53 | (6) |
| 2014– | Udinese | 3 | (0) |
| 2015 | → Vålerenga (loan) | 10 | (2) |
| 2016 | → Hammarby (loan) | 12 | (0) |
| 2016– | → Ascoli (loan) | 7 | (1) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2010–2012 | Sweden U17 | 19 | (0) |
| 2012–2014 | Sweden U19 | 9 | (1) |
| 2013– | Sweden U21 | 17 | (3) |
| 2016– | Sweden | 2 | (1) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13 November 2016. | |||
Melker Hallberg (born 20 October 1995) is a Swedish footballer who plays for Ascoli (on loan from Udinese) as a midfielder.[1]
Career
Early career
Hallberg grew up in the small town of Ljungbyholm, shortly to the south of Kalmar. There he started with the local club Möre BK where he played for the first team in the seventh tier of Swedish football at age thirteen.[2]
In 2010 Hallberg was brought into the Kalmar FF youth section. Two years later he became the youngest-ever first-team player for the club when he made his Allsvenskan debut at the age of sixteen.[3] On July 15, 2012, Hallberg became the fourth-youngest Allsvenskan goalscorer of all time when he scored the game-winning 2–1 goal against IF Elfsborg.[4] In December 2012 he signed a new four-year contract extension.[3] After his second season in Allsvenskan as a seventeen-year-old, Hallberg was ranked as the 14th-best player in the league by newspaper Expressen.[5]
Udinese
In August 2014, Hallberg signed for Italian club Udinese. He made his debut in January 2015.
In 2015, he was loaned out to Norwegian club Vålerenga Fotball, and in 2016 he was loaned out to Hammarby Fotboll in his native Sweden.
International career
Hallberg has featured regularly at all age levels of Swedish youth national teams. In August 2013 he got selected for the first time ever to the Swedish U21 squad in a friendly against Norway.[6]
Career statistics
- As of 20 August 2014[7]
| Season | Club | League | League | Cup | Continental | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| 2012 | Kalmar FF | Allsvenskan | 10 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | 13 | 1 | |
| 2013 | 29 | 4 | 2 | 0 | — | 31 | 4 | |||
| 2014 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 14 | 1 | |||
| Career total | 53 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 58 | 6 | ||
Honours
Individual
- Allsvenskan newcomer of the year: 2013
References
- ↑ "Melker Hallberg". Svenskfotboll. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
- ↑ "Stortalangens första mål sänkte Elfsborg". Expressen. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
- 1 2 "Fyraårskontrakt för Melker Hallberg". Kalmar FF. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
- ↑ "Tuffare Hallberg ska slå sig in på mitten". Östran. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
- ↑ "Här är allsvenskans 50 bästa spelare - år 2013" (in Swedish). Expressen. 6 November 2013. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ↑ "Hallberg tar nu plats i U21-landslagstruppen". Expressen. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
- ↑ "Eliteprospects.com - Melker Hallberg". Eliteprospects. 20 August 2014.