Markus Henriksen

Markus Henriksen, 2010

Markus Henriksen (born 25 July 1992 Trondheim ) is a Norwegian football player. He began his career in the Tippeligaen the traditional club Rosenborg Trondheim, his father Trond Henriksen was a total of ten years for the active as a player. Since 2012, stands in the Dutch Eredivisie with AZ Alkmaar under contract.

Currently, he is considered the greatest football talent in Norway.

Club career

Henriksen began his career in the youth of Trondheim Multisport Association Trond IL. In 2007 he was accepted at the age of 15 years from the club near Great club Rosenborg in his youth, where he soon became the largest talent Norway.

Within two years, he rose from the U- 19 through U- 21 in the first team on, for he 16 -year-old made ​​his debut on 10 May 2009 at the cup match against Gjøvik -Lyn. In the league he came in the same season on three brief appearances in which he could make additional talent rehearsals and celebrated his maiden title at the professional level with the Norwegian championship.

After the departure of playmaker Marek Sapara to MKE Ankaragucu, he became already in the sequence playing time under coach Erik Hamrén team regular and developed under his successor, Nils Arne Eggen in a short time become a key player of the team. As a central attacking midfielder in the 4-3-3 system of Eggen, he was with seven gates. In 28 games this season behind the strikers Steffen Iversen and Rade Prica as a midfielder 's third most dangerous scorer of his team and had a consistently strong performances throughout the season He had again won the league title with the club and the first time the Norwegian Supercup end of 2010 and became the "U -21 Player of the Year" in the Tippeligaen. Simultaneously, he was also nominated as a midfielder of the year at Kniksenprisen, losing to his former teammate Anthony Annan.

Previously, he had his debut in the senior team already on 12 October 2010 in a friendly against Croatia.

National

International Norway for the first time he ran on during qualifying for the U-19 European Football Championships 2010. He denied all three possible matches and scored one goal.

In August 2010, he was then 18 -year-old forward into the U -21 national team, for whom he made ​​his debut in the 4-1 away defeat against Croatia. Henriksen scored the goal for Norway.

Just two months later, he was nominated by coach Egil Olsen surprising for the friendly against Croatia for the senior team. In consequence he was in the starting lineup before he was replaced at half-time against Henning Hauger. Through his efforts he became the youngest debutant since 1982 and second-youngest player in the history of the Norwegian national team. Although Olsen expressed positive views about Henriksen's performance and even admitted that he had already overtaken his midfield partner at RKB and predecessor as a top talent, Per Ciljan Skjelbred from the power stint, he gave up a nomination for the following game against Cyprus.

Since then he comes out simultaneously in the U -21 and senior national team for use.

Others

In 2010 he was " out 100 best talent in the world" by the Spanish football newspaper Don Balón the only Norwegian in addition to Harmeet Singh under the.

At the age of 11 years at the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix Junior he took together with two friends under the name " Sheep Boys" of the Norwegian preliminary decision for the MGP Nordic, a Scandinavian song contest for children part. The group difference however prematurely.

Trond Henriksen's father graduated as a defensive player between 1983 to 1993 a total of 193 league games for RBK and to this day because of his uncompromising style of play and his great effort of will (nicknamed "Rambo" ) as a crowd favorite. With 29 yellow cards he is still simplistic internal record holder in this category. During his career he won the championship five times and three times the Norwegian Cup. Since 2006 he has been working with short breaks as an assistant coach at Rosenborg.

Achievements

• 2 x Norwegian Champion: 2009, 2010
• 1 x Norwegian Super Cup winner: 2010
• 1 x Norwegian Youth Champion: 2009