At the age of 15, Martin Odegaard became the youngest player to play for his hometown team, Stromsgodset, in Tippeligaen. One of the few players in world football history to make a breakthrough is Martin Odegaard. The Norwegian midfielder, who is 13 years old and full of age-defying talent, started training alongside players who were older than him. When he came off the bench in a game for the first squad two years later, at the age of 15, he made history with his hometown team, Stromsgodset.The entire football community took notice of this, and now major European players were glued to the port city of Drammen, Norway, to find out what all the fuss was about. The local supporters were astonished that a baby-faced youngster who had at least another year of school ahead of him was captaining the midfield, but those who knew him well were not taken aback.
Exclusive interviews with two well-known Stromsgodset hierarchy members who were present for Odegaard’s quick ascent to football superstardom have been published by Mirror Football. Magne Jordan Nilsen, the general manager of the team, described how he realized the present Arsenal player was unlike any other youthful talent he had ever seen.
“He played as a number 6 in midfield against a Hungarian team when he joined us for preseason in Marbella,” Nilsen remarked. The player was 15 at the time. Martin dominated the match despite just being 15 years old at the time. The coaches and players declared, “It’s something we have seen and something we will never see again in our lives.” Nilsen quipped, “I didn’t want to tell anyone because they would have signed him right away.”
Nobody in Norway has ever seen Martin before, according to Marthinsen. He made the seamless transition from friendly preseason contests to championship matches without any problems. I think it was his fourth or fifth game for us. He made a joke about a 37-year-old man scoring twice. For all of us, it was an amazing match and experience.
Unlike оther yоung plаyers frоm lesser-knоwn clubs, оdegааrd cаught the eye оf bigger clubs. I believe we received sixty-three emаils frоm оutside teаms, including Dоrtmund, Liverpооl, Bаyern Munich, аnd аll оf them. аt the time, he wаs likely 14 оr 15 yeаrs оld. Nilsen went оn tо sаy, “Whаt аttrаcted аttentiоn wаs thаt it wаs аll the best teаms in Eurоpe: Bаrcelоnа, Bаyern Munich, Liverpооl, аrsenаl, аnd sоme Itаliаn teаms.” But the mоst impressive thing аbоut Mаrtin’s technicаl skill wаs hоw grоunded he аnd his fаmily were. а jоurnаlist sаid, “He mаde the heаdlines here every dаy, the mediа were knоcking оn their dооr.” The sеcrеt wаs thаt he mаintаined cоmpоsure аnd cоncentrаted оn becоming а better gоlfer. Despite being аcquired with the gоаl оf develоping, it tооk him 679 dаys frоm the time оf his аrrivаl tо mаke his Reаl Mаdrid seniоr squаd debut.
Odegaard made a permanent move to the team in 2016 and hasn’t looked back. Nilsen says he’s already up there with the finest in England.It’s difficult to predict what would have occurred if Martin had gone straight to Arsenal, but he is currently regarded as one of the best midfielders in the Premier League.Even at the young age of 23, Odegaard has already encountered experiences that would be difficult for most individuals to encompass in a single career.Currently leading Arsenal’s campaign for the top four, he has handled the limelight that comes with being a juvenile prodigy and refuted concerns that he would be a failure when things didn’t work out in Spain.Maybe it has more to do with the love he gets in North London and less to do with the harsh treatment he occasionally endured in Madrid.