After a strange last year, United States Under-20 central defender Gale Agbossoumonde has finalized a six-month loan with Djurgarden in the Swedish Allsvenskan, giving the 19-year-old the chance to get his club career on track. Agbossoumonde went on a two-week trial and impressed enough to earn himself not just a loan deal, but early speculation is that he could be starting for the Swedish club when their season begins in April.
United States U-20 Gale Agbossoumonde Finalizes Loan To Djurgarden
After signing his loan deal on Thursday Agbossoumonde said, “I feel we have a very good team and I think we will do well in Allsvenskan.”
Agbossoumonde is coming off of a year in which he was named U.S. Youth Player of the Year and is expected to start for the U.S. team at the 2011 U-20 World Cup. A Togo-born defender who moved to New York when he was 8, Agbossoumonde spent the first half of 2010 on loan with Sporting Braga, but a complicated situation with Traffic Sports, an agency that owns his contract, kept the Portuguese club from buying the defender outright.
Despite being unable to find a club to play for in the summer of 2010, something that Agbossoumonde has blamed on Traffic Sports and not a lack of interest, the defender made his debut with the U.S. senior team against South Africa on his 19th birthday in November. Now, Agbossoumonde has a club, something that is vital for the development of a player many have pegged as the brightest defender in the United States youth system.
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