Brentford star Kristoffer Ajer has revealed that he was forced to prove his age after netting 26 goals in a single game as a kid.The 24-year-old has impressed in his debut Premier League season and has been a pivotal performer for the Bees, who have now beat the drop.
The classy centre-half was plucked from Celtic in a club-record £13.5million deal last summer.The Norwegian international has come a long way from his humble beginnings, where he made his senior debut for Bodo/Glimt at the age of 16.
But Ajer was even younger than that when it first became clear that he was destined for big things in the game - and he was even accused of being older than he was after running riot in a youth game.Ajer told Brentford's website: “I started playing with my dad when I was four years old.
My dad wanted a son to play football with and I’ve always loved playing, so we started early!“I’d already been playing for a few years by the time I was involved in my first game for Raelingen, so I’d developed a lot more than the other guys who had never played football.
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