association football player
Sébastien Romain Teddy Haller ( give birth 22 June 1994 ) is a professional football player who plays as a forth for Eredivisie club Ajax and the Ivory Coast national team. Haller began his career with Auxerre, and moved on lend to Dutch Eredivise side Utrecht in 2015, before signing on a permanent basis. After two years in the Netherlands, he moved to german baseball club Eintracht Frankfurt, winning the DFB-Pokal in 2018. Haller performances sparked the interest of English Premier League side West Ham United, signing him in 2019 for a club-record transfer worth €49.8 million ( £45 million ). Following a disappointing enchantment in England, Haller returned to the Netherlands in 2021 signing with Ajax, for a club record fee of €22.5 million ( £18.8 million ). In his beginning six months, he won the Eredivisie and KNVB Cup. Haller became the first player to score ten goals in six consecutive UEFA Champions League matches during the 2021–22 season. Born in France, to a french father and an Ivorian beget, Haller represented France at the youth charge, before switching his commitment in 2020 to the Ivory Coast. He scored his first international goal against Madagascar.

early on life [edit ]

Haller was born in Ris-Orangis, Essonne, Paris, France [ 4 ] to a french father and an Ivorian mother. [ 5 ] [ 6 ]

Club career [edit ]

Auxerre [edit ]

During the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup, on 26 June 2011, Haller signed his foremost professional sign with Auxerre, agreeing to a three-year deal. [ 7 ] ahead of the 2012–13 season, Haller was promoted to the senior team by director Jean-Guy Wallemme. His professional debut came on 27 July 2012, in the team ‘s opening league match of the 2012–13 campaign against Nîmes. [ 8 ]

utrecht [edit ]

On 24 December 2014, it was announced that Haller was sent on lend to Dutch Eredivisie club Utrecht until the goal of the season. [ 9 ] At the end of the temper, it was announced that FC Utrecht had signed Haller. [ 10 ] The supporters voted for Haller as the winner of the Di Tommaso Trophy 2015, Utrecht ‘s player of the year award. [ 11 ]

Eintracht Frankfurt [edit ]

On 15 May 2017, Haller signed with Eintracht Frankfurt on a four-year softwood for a reported tip of €7 million. [ 12 ] In the 2017–18 DFB-Pokal, he scored four goals for Frankfurt, as the club won the final examination, marking the first trophy of Haller ‘s career. In the 2018–19 Bundesliga season, he scored 15 league goals in 29 appearances as the club finished seventh. [ 13 ] In addition to his goals scored, he besides made nine assists, so was involved in 24 goals, a figure only beaten in the 2018–19 season by Robert Lewandowski with 29. [ 14 ]

West Ham United [edit ]

On 17 July 2019, Haller signed with West Ham United on a five-year deal for a club record fee, that could rise to £45 million. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] On 31 July, Haller scored his first goal for West Ham in a pre-season friendly against Hertha BSC, in which West Ham won 5–3. [ 17 ] He made his Premier League debut for West Ham on 10 August, in a 5–0 passing against reigning champions Manchester City. [ 18 ] On 24 August 2019, Haller scored his inaugural and irregular goals in the Premier League for West Ham in a 3–1 away win against Watford in which he scored an acrobatic bicycle recoil. [ 19 ] On 1 January 2020, Haller scored an acrobatic scissor kick against Bournemouth in a 4–0 home winnings. [ 20 ] In July 2020, Frankfurt reported West Ham to FIFA after they had failed to pay an episode in May 2020 of £5.4million as separate of the £45 million transportation. West Ham claimed that they had withheld the payment, following a contractual dispute between the two clubs. [ 21 ] On 16 December 2020, Haller scored an overhead gripe in a 1–1 attract against Crystal Palace in the Premier League that was belated voted as the Premier League Goal of the Month in December. [ 22 ] [ 23 ]

ajax [edit ]

2020–21 season [edit ]

On 8 January 2021, Haller signed a four-and-a-half-year narrow with Dutch club Ajax, for a clubhouse record tip of €22.5 million ( £18.8 million ) to West Ham United, reuniting with his erstwhile director Erik ten Hag. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Haller made his introduction two days late as a second-half utility against De Topper rivals PSV ; he provided an aid to Antony for Ajax ‘s equalizing goal and besides had a goal ruled out by VAR for offside as the peer ended 2–2. [ 26 ] On 14 January, Haller scored his first goal for Ajax, and provided an assist, in a 3–1 away league gain over Twente. [ 27 ] On 3 February, it was revealed that Haller had been mistakenly omitted from Ajax ‘s squad list for the knockout stages of the UEFA Europa League and therefore would be unable to play for the club in the rival. [ 28 ]

2021–22 season [edit ]

In a 5–1 away victory over Sporting in the UEFA Champions League on 15 September 2021, he scored twice in each one-half to become the first musician to score four on his Champions League debut since Marco van Basten for A.C. Milan in 1992. [ 29 ] The follow meet of the Champions League season, on 28 September, Haller recorded a goal against Beşiktaş, becoming the first actor in the history of the rival to score five goals in his first two matches appearances. [ 30 ] In the invert fixture, on 24 November, Haller scored two goals and had another ruled out by VAR, in a 2–1 acquire against Beşiktaş to become the first player to score nine goals in five back-to-back matches of the competition. [ 31 ] On 7 December, Haller scored in Ajax ‘s final Champions League group stage equal, and in the work became merely the second actor to register in all six group games after Cristiano Ronaldo in 2017–18 and became the fastest musician to 10 goals in contest history. [ 32 ]

International career [edit ]

Haller was a France youth international, having represented his nation at every youth level. He played with the under-17 team at the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup. [ 33 ] In November 2020, Haller was called up to the Ivory Coast home team. [ 34 ] He debuted for the Ivory Coast in a 2–1 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualification win over Madagascar on 12 November, scoring his english ‘s game-winning finish in the fifty-fifth hour. [ 35 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

As of match played 22 December 2021[36]

International [edit ]

As of match played 6 September 2021[40]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Ivory Coast 2020 2 1
2021 4 2
Total 6 3
As of match played 6 September 2021
Ivory Coast score listed first, score column indicates score after each Haller goal[40]

Honours [edit ]

Eintracht Frankfurt
Ajax
Individual

References [edit ]