Kenneth Zohore

Kenneth Dahrup Zohore (* January 31, 1994 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish- Ivorian football player at the position of a striker. He currently plays for Fiorentina in the Italian Serie A. He is also in the U- 19 team of the club active and is there still tend to inserts.

Birth

Kenneth Zohore came in 1994 as the son of a Danish mother and an Ivorian father in Copenhagen, Denmark to the world; Zohore also grew up in the capital.

Career

Youth

Zohore began his active career as a football player at the oldest football club in his home country, the Kjøbenhavns Bold Club. There he played through some youth teams and then moved into the junior level of FC Copenhagen. After several youth seasons, he was appointed in the autumn of 2009 at the age of 15 years for the first time in the cadre of U-19 team of the club. Soon after his admission to the squad he came to his competitive debut for the team. He also coached at this time already three times a week with the professional team.

Club career

In early February Zohore was appointed to the 24 -man squad that went to training camp in Marbella, Spain. In Marbella, he came during the Copa del Sol, a warm-up tournament, in a total of two games against Kalmar FF and the Molde FK used. Previously, he graduated already on 27 January 2010, just four days before his 16th birthday, a test match against the AB Copenhagen. In the 4-0 win at the training ground of FC Copenhagen, he scored in the 81 minutes the goal for a 4-0 final score. After the training camp in Spain to the 1.94 m tall center forward completed two test matches at the club's training ground against Vålerenga Oslo and Helsingborgs IF.

On March 7, 2010 Zohore were aged 16 years and 35 days, his professional league debut when he came on as a substitute in the 5-0 home win against Aarhus GF in the 73rd minute for the three -goal César Santin. He is currently (April 2010) is the youngest player that ever came in a league match of the Danish Superliga used. After he came in front of around 18,000 spectators on March 7 for his pro debut, he was on the next Round (14 March 2010) in the 2-0 home victory over Brøndby IF in front of 30,000 spectators "only" on the bench.

In addition to the pro team Zohore comes sporadically to operations for the second first team of FC Copenhagen, which has its gaming operations in the third-class 2nd Division East, one of two parallel relays. But not only in the adult teams it is used also in the U-19 team of the Association, the center forward is still active.

Kenneth Zohore which is mainly already known by the Danish media as " new Nicklas Bendtner " and celebrated, dreams of one day playing for a top European club like Chelsea or Inter Milan. Meanwhile, he said that, however, he still wants to stay in his native Denmark and especially in the capital, Copenhagen, and only be decided in the future if he moves abroad. The comparison to Bendtner comes from the fact that this in his youth a similar style of play as Zohore had and, moreover, was also in the offspring of FC Copenhagen active.

His first goal in a professional league succeeded Zohore 30 October 2010, when he met in a 3-2 home win over Lyngby BK, when he came to use from the start, in 13 minutes for a 1-0 lead his team and was in the 61st minute replaced by Morten North beach. The goal made ​​him behind Mads Beierholm the second- youngest goalscorer in the history of the highest Danish football league. Furthermore Zohore debuted on October 20, 2010 in the UEFA Champions League 2010/ 11 and was employed in the group stage in the 0-2 away defeat against FC Barcelona. To date ( as at 4 November 2010), the young offensive player came in six league matches of FC Copenhagen used and scored one goal.

January 31, 2012 it was announced that Zohore moves abroad and has signed a contract with the Italian first division club Fiorentina.

National

Zohore already gained his first international experience, as it was used for the Danish U- 17 team. Between late July and late September 2009, the young center forward came here in ten international matches equal to six times the scoring. His first game he completed on 28 July in a 1-1 draw against the U- 17 national team from England, as he was from the outset in use and has been replaced from the 74 minutes by Viktor Fischer. His first goal for the U-17 team, he came in his fifth international appearance on September 1 against the U -17 Ukraine. Zohore, which was in use from the beginning, scored in the 49th minute of the 2-1 goal for his team; the game ended in a 2-2 draw, Zohore was substituted after 73 minutes.

In his tenth National team effort on September 28 at the high 8:1 away win over the U-17 national team of Montenegro him scoring a hat -trick; after only 60 minutes, he completed was once again replaced by Viktor Fischer. The game was part of the qualification for the U-17 European Football Championships 2010 in Liechtenstein. However, Denmark qualified just not for the discharged in May 2010 European Championship and was eliminated in the group stage even as third in the group behind Croatia and Belgium. In qualifying for the U-17 European Championship, he reached the second place in the scoring charts with three other players. Scorer was Jesús Joaquín Fernández of the Spaniards, called Suso, with a total of five goals. After he was not taken into account over a year for the U- 17 national team, while 28 September 2009 completed his last game for Denmark U-17 Juniors, he only came back from 22 September 2010 for the team to use. To date (as of November 4, 2010 ) was Zohore in 13 appearances for the U- 17 team in Denmark for use, scoring eight goals.

First experiences in the U-19 national team of Denmark collected the trained striker in August 2010 after he was first convened in the U-19 squad in his home country. He made ​​his debut on 10 August 2010 by a 0-1 defeat against the age colleague from Norway; Zohore was going through the entire game in action. To date ( as at 4 November 2010) the offensive player came in three appearances for the U-19 selection in his home country for use and remained goalless.

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The father of Zohore is the cousin of the Ivorian international's Didier Drogba.