Kim Chelstrom was born in 1982 in Sandviken. This is a popular Swedish footballer who currently stands for the Swiss team Grasshopper as a midfielder. He is a rather interesting person and a talented athlete. And you should definitely talk about him.
Carier start
Kim Chelstrom began his football career at a club called Partille. There he began to learn ball mastery. And his first professional club was Hecken. He made his debut in his composition in 1999 - at the same time when the team returned to the top division of the Swedish League. Kim's first match turned out to be very impressive and significant. He then came on as a substitute (the team played with “Gothenburg”) and a minute later scored a goal against the opponents. It impressed everyone.
And the football player Kim Chelstrom gained fame when he began to play for “Djurgarden”. Together with this team, he won his first title - the champion of Sweden. Moreover, he rendered 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), he rolled the ball 14 times into the gates of various opponents.
“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 “Chelsea” and “Tottenham Hotspur”. However, the Swede decided to move to another club - in the “Rennes”. The team bought it for $ 1.7 million. In this club, by the way, at that time, Kim played on the national team friend Andreas Isaksson, the 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 Michael Chelstrom moved to “Lyon”. He made his debut on July 30 - against the Parisian “PSG”. And on October 17, in the same year, he scored his first goal. This happened as part of the Champions League match. Then “Lyon” played against Kiev “Dynamo”.
Together with this team, Kim twice became the Champion of France. But after the law was adopted in the country on increasing the amount mandatory as tax payments, the football player, like many other athletes, decided to leave France.
Career in Russia
In 2012, the Swedish footballer bought Moscow “Spartak”. On September 15 of the same year, his debut took place. It was a game against the Krasnodar club “Kuban”. Kim scored the first goal in 2012 against the Perm team “Amkar”.
In 2014, January 31 (just on the last day of the transfer window), the Swede was sent to England. He was rented by Arsenal. The Moscow team received 300 thousand euros for this deal. In London, the player showed himself excellently after recovering from an injury. On April 12, he scored a penalty - then Arsenal opposed FC Wigan Athletic. And in the summer he returned to Russia and there under Murat Yakin, who held the position of head coach at that time, he became a key player in the team. But in May, he decided to turn on a contract extension. This took advantage of the Swiss club Grasshopper. So a month later, on June 5, Kim became a player on this team.
Interesting Facts
Kim Chelstrom is a participant in the European Championships 2004, 2008 and 2012. He also played in the 2006 World Cup matches. He is also the author of some important, significant goals that he managed to get in the qualifying tournament of the 2008 European Championships. 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 both teammates and comrades. By the way, once there was one situation that proved the good nature of the football player. As usual, before the matches, the teams enter the field with the pupils of their rivals. So, then there was a match between Sweden and Germany. Kim stepped onto the field with a boy with autism. The child was then very afraid of the situation - a stadium filled with people, noise and an unceasing buzz influenced his reaction. Kim instantly took control of the situation. He began to calm the boy, hugged him and began to speak with a smile. After the match, the child’s father wrote a thank you letter to the football player, saying that it was a very noble act, because of which his son felt 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 happy to help the boy, deciding that he was simply obliged to do this.