Kim Chelstrom: all the fun about the famous Swedish football player

Kim Chelstrom was born in 1982, in Sandviken. This is a popular Swedish footballer, who currently stands for the Swiss team "Grasshopper" on the position of midfielder. He is quite an interesting personality and a talented athlete. And it should be told about him.

Carier start

Kim Chelstrom began his football career at a club called Partilla. There he began to learn the skill of owning a ball. And his first professional club was "Hecken". He made his debut in his lineup in 1999 - at the same time, when the team returned to the top division of the Swedish league. The first match of Kim was very impressive and significant. He then went on to replace (the team played with "Gothenburg") and just a minute later he made a goal against the opponents. This impressed everyone.

A football player Kim Chelstrem gained fame when he started to play for "Djurgården". Together with this team, he won his first title - the champion of Sweden. And he provided considerable assistance to the club in terms of winning this trophy. In the first season, in 2002, he scored 12 goals in the championship. And in the second, in 2003 (when the team again won the championship title), rolled the ball 14 times into the gate of various rivals.

"Rennes" and "Lyon"

In the winter of 2004, many clubs became actively interested in the Swedish player. He was offered a contract by the English teams of Chelsea and Tottenham. However, the Swede decided to move to another club - in "Rennes". The team bought it for 1.7 million dollars. In this club, by the way, at that time played a friend of Kim on the national team - Andreas Isaksson, goalkeeper.

In the second half of that season, the midfielder scored seven goals in 18 games. He really helped the club - in many respects the team owes it to the Swede for his fourth place in the championship and for the right to take part in the UEFA Cup.

But in 2006, Kim Mikael Chelstrom moved to Lyon. He made his debut on July 30 - against the Paris "PSG". And on October 17, the same year, he scored his first goal. This happened in the Champions League match. Then, "Lyon" played against the Kiev "Dynamo".

Together with this team, Kim twice became the Champion of France. But after the country adopted a law on increasing the amount, mandatory as a payment of tax deductions, a football player, like many other athletes, decided to leave France.

Careers in Russia

In 2012, the Swedish football player bought the Moscow "Spartak". On September 15 of the same year his debut took place. It was a game against the Krasnodar club "Kuban". The first goal Kim scored in 2012 against the Perm team "Amkar".

In 2014, on January 31 (just on the last day of the transfer window), the Swede was given to England. He was rented by Arsenal. The Moscow team received 300 thousand euros for this deal. In London, the player showed himself perfectly after recovering from injury. April 12, he scored a penalty - then "Arsenal" spoke against FC "Wigan Athletic". And in the summer he returned to Russia and there, under Murat Yakin, who at that time held the post of head coach, became the key player of the team. But in May, he decided to be from the extension of the contract. This took advantage of the Swiss club "Grasshopper". So a month later, June 5, Kim became a player of this team.

Interesting Facts

Kim Chelstrom is a participant of the European Championships 2004, 2008 and 2012. He also played in the matches of the 2006 World Cup. He is also the author of some important, significant goals, which he managed to formalize in the qualifying tournament of the European Championship-2008. Moreover, it was Kim who drove the ball into the goal of the Irish team from 45 meters. This goal is considered to be one of the most beautiful.

And Kim Chelstrom is a very kind and friendly person. This is noted by teammates and comrades. By the way, once there was one situation, which proved the good character of the player. As usual, before the matches the teams enter the field together with the pupils of their rivals. So, then there was a match between Sweden and Germany. Kim came on the field with a boy with autism. The child was then very much frightened of the situation - the stadium filled with people, noise and a continuous rumble influenced his reaction. Kim immediately took the situation under his control. He began to calm the boy, embraced him and began to smile with a smile. After the match, the father of the child wrote a grateful letter to the player, saying that this is a very noble act, because of which his son experienced pride, a sense of his own personality and the joy of having managed to enter the field in front of several tens of thousands of fans. Kim replied that he was only too happy to help the boy, believing that he simply had to do it.