association football player
Sébastien Romain Teddy Haller ( bear 22 June 1994 ) is a master football player who plays as a forward for Eredivisie cabaret Ajax and the Ivory Coast national team. Haller began his career with Auxerre, and moved on loanword to Dutch Eredivise side Utrecht in 2015, before signing on a permanent basis. After two years in the Netherlands, he moved to german cabaret 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 disappoint spell in England, Haller returned to the Netherlands in 2021 signing with Ajax, for a cabaret record fee of €22.5 million ( £18.8 million ). In his inaugural six months, he won the Eredivisie and KNVB Cup. Haller became the beginning player to score ten goals across six consecutive UEFA Champions League matches during the 2021–22 season. Born in France, to a french father and an Ivorian mother, Haller represented France at the youth floor, before switching his commitment in 2020 to the Ivory Coast. He scored his foremost external finish against Madagascar.

early life [edit ]

Haller was born in Ris-Orangis, Essonne, Paris, France [ 4 ] to a french founder 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 first professional sign with Auxerre, agreeing to a three-year manage. [ 7 ] ahead of the 2012–13 season, Haller was promoted to the elder 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 crusade 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 end of the temper. [ 9 ] At the end of the season, 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 distribute for a report fee of €7 million. [ 12 ] In the 2017–18 DFB-Pokal, he scored four goals for Frankfurt, as the baseball club won the concluding, 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 alone 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 beginning 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 foremost and second goals in the Premier League for West Ham in a 3–1 away win against Watford in which he scored an acrobatic bicycle kick. [ 19 ] On 1 January 2020, Haller scored an acrobatic scissor kick back against Bournemouth in a 4–0 home acquire. [ 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 depart of the £45 million transfer. 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 command processing overhead time kick in a 1–1 withdraw against Crystal Palace in the Premier League that was late 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 abridge with Dutch club Ajax, for a club record fee of €22.5 million ( £18.8 million ) to West Ham United, reuniting with his erstwhile director Erik ten-spot Hag. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Haller made his debut two days belated as a second-half ersatz against De Topper rivals PSV ; he provided an assist to Antony for Ajax ‘s equalizing goal and besides had a goal ruled out by VAR for offside as the match ended 2–2. [ 26 ] On 14 January, Haller scored his first goal for Ajax, and provided an serve, 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 police squad list for the smasher stages of the UEFA Europa League and consequently would be unable to play for the baseball club in the competition. [ 28 ]

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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 half to become the first player to score four on his Champions League debut since Marco van Basten for A.C. Milan in 1992. [ 29 ] The follow match of the Champions League temper, on 28 September, Haller recorded a goal against Beşiktaş, becoming the first player in the history of the rival to score five goals in his first two matches appearances. [ 30 ] In the reverse regular, on 24 November, Haller scored two goals and had another ruled out by VAR, in a 2–1 win against Beşiktaş to become the first musician to score nine goals in five consecutive matches of the contest. [ 31 ] On 7 December, Haller scored in Ajax ‘s final examination Champions League group degree match, and in the process became entirely the second player to register in all six group games after Cristiano Ronaldo in 2017–18 and became the fastest player to 10 goals in rival history. [ 32 ]

International career [edit ]

Haller was a France youth international, having represented his nation at every young person 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 national team. [ 34 ] He debuted for the Ivory Coast in a 2–1 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualification gain over Madagascar on 12 November, scoring his side ‘s game-winning finish in the fifty-fifth moment. [ 35 ]

career statistics [edit ]

cabaret [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 ]