Something among the un-ordinary happened this year in the athletic world. In the month of January, 2015, Real Madrid signed a young boy who could be a professional prodigy in the near future. Martin Odegaard is 16 years old. Officially signing with Real Madrid on January 21st, 2015 from his former team Stromsgodset. Currently he plays games with Real Madrid reserve team, Castilla. He trains with both the reserves and the professional roster. Doing so must give him much exposure and getting him better day by day. Martin has made 3 game appearances since signing with Madrid. He scored his first professional goal while playing for Castilla, Madrid’s reserve team.Within a few years, Martin hopes to be pulled up from the reserve team and onto the real, Real Madrid team.
In his youth years of playing Martin played with Dramman Strong, a local club in which was coached by his father. In 2011, at age 12 attended a tournament for U-16’s. This tournament gathered all of the best 15 year olds in the country, yet at age 12 he was competing and outshining boys who’m were 3 to 4 years older than him! Martin made many appearances with the Norwegian national teams, 16 in total. In these 16 games, Martin did not score any goals but played well and played every game. This kid is no doubt an unbelievable athlete and player and is most likely to encounter a very successful future in the soccer world.
CS