Martin Edegor - Norwegian Professionala footballer who plays the position of central attacking midfielder in the Dutch club Heerenveen on a rental basis from Real Madrid. Since 2014, he has been playing for the national football team of Norway; he is the youngest player to debut the national team during the entire period of its history. Passed all age teams of Norway. The height of a football player is 176 centimeters, and the weight is 68 kilograms.
Martin Edegor: Biography
Born December 17, 1998 in the city of Drammen(Norway). He is a graduate of such youth football academies as Drammen Strong and Stromsgodset. His father, Hans Erik Odegaard, a former professional footballer (played at Stromsgodset and Sannefjord), is one of the founders of the Drammen Strong club. In the same club for some time he worked as a coach for his son’s team. In 2005, when Martin was only 6 years old, his parents invested 50 thousand crowns in the club so that they converted the gravel field to an artificial turf.
From 2009 to 2014, midfielder MartinEdegor played in the Stromsgodset youth team, among the guys who were 2-3 years older than him. The guy constantly played and trained against physically stronger players, nevertheless he coped. The coach saw in him an incredibly huge potential, so they put him in the position of a left winger so that he would play more with the ball and gain experience. In the attack, he was given free will, thanks to which he came up with the most universal and correct solution for a successful conclusion. At the age of twelve, Martin Edegor was impressed with the football manager Lars Tjarnos during the nationwide U-16 tournament. It was something incredible - Edegor coped with the players who are older than him by 3-4 years.
Professional career in Stromsgodset
With the first team, Martin started training with2012, when he was 13 years old. Already at that time, the guy was a big hunt from European clubs such as Bayern Munich, Manchester City, Manchester United and others. In January 2014, it was decided that the 15-year-old Edegor will be transferred to the first team of Stromsgodset, but no professional contract was signed. The regulations of the Higher Norwegian Football League state that players need a professional contract to play. The club management decided to include a player in the B-list for amateur players, which allowed Edegor to take part in three games per season. However, trouble does not come alone, Martin could not train with the basic composition during the daytime, because he still received a secondary education. Thus, the guy trained two nights a week with the semi-professional club “Myondalen” (from the first division), in which the head coach was his father.
The debut on the field took place on April 13, 2014 against "Alesund". Martin became the youngest player to take the field in the Norwegian league in its history.
May 5, 2014, Edegor still signedprofessional contract with the club and became a full player. The young midfielder scored his first goal on May 16 in a match against Sarpsborg, thereby recording another record - the youngest “goalscorer” in Norwegian football history. In total, between 2014 and 2015, Martin Edegor played 23 official matches for the club and scored 5 goals.
Going to Real Madrid
January 21, 2015 the royal club signedan agreement with a Norwegian for 3.5 million euros (with a possible increase to 9 million). It was reported that the annual salary Edegora will be 2.3 million euros. At the press conference after the signing of the contract, it was announced that football player Martin Edegor will train in both the first and the reserve team (Real Madrid Castilla). As 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 a score of 7-3 in favor of the “galacticos”, and Edegor became the youngest player in the Spanish Championship (16 years and 156 days).
Unfortunately, it was the only match of the Norwegian in the first team. In the period from 2015 to 2017, the Norwegian spent 62 matches for Castilla and designed 5 goals.
Rent in “Heerenveen”
January 10, 2017 in the media there was information that the Norwegian wunderkind Martin Edegor will act as part of the Dutch "Heerenveen" on a rental basis.
Currently, the midfielder has already spent more than 20 official matches for the first composition.
