Daylon Claasen
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 28 January 1990 | ||
Place of birth | Klerksdorp, South Africa | ||
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Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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1860 Munich | ||
Number | 7 | ||
Youth career | |||
Leicester City Klerksdorp | |||
Vasco Da Gama | |||
2002–2006 | Ajax Cape Town | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2006–2008 | Ajax Cape Town | 2 | (0) |
2008–2010 | Ajax | 0 | (0) |
2010–2013 | Lierse | 69 | (11) |
2013–2014 | Lech Poznań | 23 | (3) |
2014– | 1860 Munich | 35 | (1) |
International career‡ | |||
2010– | South Africa | 11 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 05:46, 19 May 2016 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11:58, 1 May 2016 (UTC) |
Daylon Claasen (born 28 January 1990) is a South African international footballer who plays professionally for German club 1860 Munich, as a midfielder.
Career
Club career
Born in Klerksdorp, Claasen played youth football with Leicester City Klerksdorp and Vasco Da Gama.[1] He has played professionally in South Africa, the Netherlands and Belgium for Ajax Cape Town, Ajax and Lierse.[2][3][4]
Claasen was released by Lierse in April 2013,[5] and subsequently went on trial with Premier League club Everton the same month.[6]
Claasen then went on trial with newly promoted Premier League club Hull City in July 2013, initially under the pseudonym of "James Armstrong" for a match against Winterton Rangers, where he scored one goal,[7] before his actual identity was revealed two days later.[8]
On 21 August 2013 he signed a one-year contract with Polish club Lech Poznań.[9]
In June 2014 he signed a contract with German 2. Bundesliga club 1860 Munich.[10] He scored his first goal for 1860 Munich on 8 August 2015 in the first round of the DFB-Pokal against Hoffenheim, when he brought his team to a 1-0 lead in the 51st minute.[11]
International career
Claasen made his international debut for South Africa in 2010.[3]
References
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- 1990 births
- Living people
- People from Klerksdorp
- Association football midfielders
- South African soccer players
- South Africa international soccer players
- Vasco da Gama (South Africa) players
- Ajax Cape Town F.C. players
- AFC Ajax players
- K. Lierse S.K. players
- Lech Poznań players
- TSV 1860 Munich players
- Belgian First Division A players
- Ekstraklasa players
- South African expatriate soccer players
- South African expatriates in the Netherlands
- South African expatriates in Belgium
- South African expatriates in Poland
- South African expatriates in Germany
- Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
- Expatriate footballers in Belgium
- Expatriate footballers in Poland
- Expatriate footballers in Germany
- 2. Bundesliga players