Martin Angha

Martin Angha 2013

Yves Martin Angha - Lötscher ( born January 22, 1994 in Zurich ) is a Swiss football player.

Career

Martin Angha was born in Zurich, his mother is Swiss and his father is from the Congo. The football games, he started at the first Grasshopper Club Zurich, but the age of nine he went to the football academy of FC Zurich. When a youth tournament in Switzerland in 2007, he played with his team against the youth team of Arsenal FC. He subsequently received from the English tradition Club an invitation to trial. The London said they would oblige him, and so he went two years later, when he had reached the minimum age of 16 for a change, to the football academy of Arsenal. In the spring of 2010 he had his first missions for the U-21 team of the club in the Premier Reserve League. The following year, he could not quite catch up, and only towards the end of the season he had his first mission over the full season. But he made the year after a breakthrough in the offspring of the Gunners, playing the only player in all 22 games of the season.

The then 18 -year-old had earlier this year signed a contract that was valid also for the professional team of FC Arsenal, but his first appearance in the first team he had only on 26 September 2012 at the League Cup against Coventry City. A little later, on December 4, 2012, he was allowed even in the UEFA Champions League in the final minutes of the match against Olympiakos Piraeus on the square. In the Premier League, he came not to train and also the season with the U-21 team was not quite as successful as the previous year.

Since the Treaty of Martin Angha expired with the end of the season 2012/13 he was a free transfer. He decided a change, since he saw no immediate chance of regular professional assignments in London. Beginning of April 2013 signed Angha at the Bundesliga 1 FC Nuremberg a contract over four years to 30 June 2017. During his first season he was regularly from the fifth matchday Senior Squad and was already on 21 September 2013 at a brief appearance in the final minutes in the 1-1 draw against Borussia Dortmund. After the coaching change a month later he was no longer considered in a difficult situation of the club for the rest of the first round and played it several times in the second team. To return half kick-off, he then sat on the bench - also because of injury-related losses on the defensive. He had his first real use Bundesliga when he came off the bench in the match against FC Bayern München already after ten minutes for the seriously injured Timothy Chandler on the right back position on 8 February 2014.

National

Martin Angha was already in his last years in Zurich, a candidate for the junior national teams of Switzerland. In 2009, he played four times for the U- 16 national team, twice against Germany and against Liechtenstein scored his only goal so far in the national jersey from the penalty spot. Also in the following years in England, he was further appointed regularly to the respective teams in his class and played from 2009 to 2012 27 National Junior Games. In all the selected teams he wore the captain's armband at times, most recently in the U- 19th