Alexander Ring
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Alexander Michael Ring | ||
| Date of birth | 9 April 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Helsinki, Finland | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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New York City | ||
| Number | 8 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1995–1998 | VfL Lannesdorf | ||
| 1998–2008 | Bayer 04 Leverkusen | ||
| 2001 | R.S.C. Anderlecht | ||
| 2009 | HJK Helsinki | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2009–2010 | Klubi-04 | 32 | (9) |
| 2010 | → Tampere United (loan) | 4 | (1) |
| 2010–2013 | HJK Helsinki | 27 | (2) |
| 2012–2013 | → Borussia Mönchengladbach (loan) | 14 | (0) |
| 2013–2017 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 76 | (8) |
| 2017– | New York City | 8 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| Finland U17 | 6 | (1) | |
| 2008 | Finland U18 | 10 | (0) |
| 2009 | Finland U19 | 7 | (2) |
| 2010 | Finland U20 | 2 | (1) |
| 2011 | Finland U21 | 3 | (0) |
| 2011– | Finland | 42 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 April 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 12 October 2016 |
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Alexander Ring (born 9 April 1991), is a Finnish professional football midfielder who currently plays for New York City in Major League Soccer. Ring was born in Helsinki, Finland. He started his football career in German and Belgian youth teams. He began his senior club career playing for Klubi-04, before signing a full professional contract with HJK. He has represented Finland internationally since 2011.
He moved to Bonn with his family when aged three, and grew up there and in Belgium. Ring went through the ranks of Bayer 04 Leverkusen before returning to Finland with his family in 2008.
He signed for HJK's reserve team Klubi-04 in 2009, and represented them until being promoted to the first team, and signed full professional contract with the club in August 2010. However, Ring was loaned out to Tampere United for the rest of that season. He returned to HJK after the season, and was established as the first choice holding midfielder for HJK in early 2011. On 26 September 2011, he signed a contract extension with HJK, keeping him in the Finnish capital until 2015. During December 2011, it was rumored that German Bundesliga side Borussia Mönchengladbach were interested in signing the young Finn for approximately one million euros.
On 5 January 2012, it was announced that Mönchengladbach had signed Ring on loan until the summer 2013, with having an option to buy at the end of the season. On 10 March 2012, Ring made his Bundesliga debut for Mönchengladbach against Freiburg, and on 21 August Ring scored his first goal for Mönchengladbach in a 1–3 defeat to Ukrainian Dynamo Kiev in the first leg of 2012–13 UEFA Champions League's playoff-round. However, despite some encouraging displays for the club, Ring soon fell out of favour, and in February 2013 it was announced that Borussia would not use their option to buy the player.
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