Ganbold Ganbayar

Ganbold Ganbayar
Personal information
Full name Ganbold Ganbayar
Ганболдын Ганбаяр
Date of birth (2000-09-03) 3 September 2000
Place of birth Sükhbaatar, Selenge Province, Mongolia
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Attacking Midfielder,
Forward
Club information
Current team
 Puskás
Number 21
Youth career
2014 Khoromkhon
2016– Puskás
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2016 Khoromkhon 23 (26)
National team‡
2013 Mongolia U14 4 (5)
2015 Mongolia U16 2 (0)
2017– Mongolia U23 3 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:45, 16 August 2016 (UTC).
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 13:55, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Ganbold Ganbayar (Mongolian: Ганболдын Ганбаяр; born 3 September 2000) is a Mongolian footballer who plays for the academy of Puskás Akadémia FC of Hungary's Nemzeti Bajnokság.[1] He became the second Mongolian ever to play in Europe, following only Murun Altankhuyag who played for Serbian club FK Mačva Šabac in 2015.[2] He has been touted as Mongolia's potential first superstar player.[3]

Club career

Mongolia

Ganbayar started playing football at age 7. He first joined the youth team of Khoromkhon FC of the Mongolian Premier League in 2014.[4] That year the senior team won the league championship in the playoffs after being tied on points with Erchim FC (but with an inferior goal differential) following the regular season.[5] During the 2015 Mongolian Premier League season, he scored 15 goals in 11 matches.[4] That year, he was a 70th-minute substitute in the first match of the season for his first senior appearance. He scored his first senior goal against Ulaanbaatar FC in the team's second match and became a regular starter afterward.[6][7] Ganbayar also competed in the Mongolian Football Federation Under-17 youth division in 2015 and was named the best forward in his division of the tournament.[8]

In May 2014, Ganbayar was named the best player in the under-15 category of Sensation-2020, an annual national high school football tournament under the auspices of the president of Mongolia. In this eighth edition of the tournament, he became the first player from a rural area to win the award.[9][10]

Ganbayar appeared in both of Khoromkhon's matches during 2016 AFC Cup qualification.[1] He started both matches and played all but three minutes as the team was defeated 0–1 by K-Electric F.C. of Pakistan[11] and played to a scoreless draw against Druk United of Bhutan.[12] Ganbayar was the youngest player to compete at the tournament.[13]

In 2016, he scored 11 goals in 12 league appearances[6] as Khoromkhon finished third in the league.[14] He once again also competed in the Youth Division in 2016 and was named the top forward in the Under-17 age division.[15][16]

Experience abroad

In 2011, Ganbayar participated in junior camps held by Italian Serie A club AC Milan in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. He was one of four players out of over 200 who were invited to participate in the final youth tournament in Milan.[17][18]

Because of his performances with the Mongolia Under-14 team in 2013, he attracted interest from Académica de Coimbra of the Portuguese Primeira Liga.[13] However, he preferred to stay in Mongolia and play in the domestic league in hopes of gaining the attention of other European clubs.[19]

In March 2016 Ganbayar, along with fellow Mongolian Soyol-Erdene Gal-Erdene and Mongolia national team coach Zorigtyn Battulga, traveled to England to train with Barnet FC of League Two for a month at The Hive Stadium. He tallied two goals and two assists over two matches for the Under-16 side, including an assist against Norwegian club Stabæk after entering as a late substitute and two goals and an assist against Fulham. In the latter match, Fulham's goalkeeper was Jose Mourinho Jr., son of Jose Mourinho. Following the trial, it was believed that Ganbayar could be offered a contract the following year although it may be difficult because of logistics[20][21] and because of UK laws regarding minors.[4]

Hungary

In September 2016, it was announced that Ganbayar had accepted a year-long residency with the youth academy of Puskás Akadémia FC of Hungary's Nemzeti Bajnokság II.[22][23] The club competed in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top division of Hungarian football, before being relegated following the 2015–16 season.[24] He and three fellow Mongolians were chosen for the residency as part of a partnership between the MFF and the Hungarian Football Federation which was initiated in 2014.[25] Ganbayar and his three compatriots became the first players from Asia to ever play at the academy.[26] For his first year at with the club, he was only eligible to compete in friendly matches.[27] On 21 January 2017 he was in the starting lineup as the under-17 team played a friendly match against the under-17 side of Croatian Prva HNL club NK Osijek. The match ended in a 3–2 victory for Puskás.[28] He also featured in friendlies against the academies of FK Senica of Slovakia[29] and Czech clubs SK Slavia Prague[30] and FK Dukla Prague.[31] He scored a goal for his club on 14 February 2017 in a 3–1 victory over Székelyföld Labdarúgó Akadémia.[32]

In May 2017 it was announced that three of the four Mongolians who spent the year at the academy were going home to Mongolia. Ganbayar was the only player to remain and was at that time announced as part of the under-17 squad for the upcoming 2017 Puskás Cup.[33] He appeared as a second-half substitute in the tournament's opening match, a 1–0 victory over German giants FC Bayern Munich. The side's only goal was scored seven minutes after Ganbayar took the field.[34] Ganbayar made his next appearance in the tournament as a second-half substitute against Budapest Honvéd in the bronze medal match. Puskás earned the eventual victory 7–6 on penalties, with Ganbayar converting the team's second penalty kick.[35] By winning the bronze, he became the first Mongolian to win a medal in a European competition.[36]

In the offseason following the Puskás Cup in June 2017, Ganbayar returned to Mongolia. He would return to Hungary in August 2017. Because he was not previously signed to a contract, he could not compete in league matches for the club. However, he signed a contract before returning to Mongolia, making him eligible to compete in the under-19 league the following season.[26] He was to be paid €600.[37]

International career

In 2013, Ganbayar competed in the qualifying stages of the 2014 AFC U-14 Championship.[17] For this inaugural edition of the tournament, Mongolia competed in Group G against Hong Kong, DPR Korea, Macau, and Japan.[38] Matches were played at the Mong Kok Stadium in Hong Kong. The Mongolian U14 team won their first match 7–0 against Macau before losing 0–4 to Japan, 0–8 to North Korea, and 0–5 to Hong Kong.[39] In Mongolia's victory over Macau, Ganbayar scored five of his team's seven goals.[40][17][13] This was the first time in Mongolian international football history that a player scored five goals in a single match.[6]

In September 2015 Ganbayar was part of Mongolia's squad that competed in qualification for the 2016 AFC U-16 Championship.[41] He played all 180 minutes and served as the team's captain for both matches, a 0–17 defeat to Japan[42] and a 2–5 defeat to Hong Kong.[43]

In June 2017 head coach Michael Weiß named Ganbayar to Mongolia's roster for 2018 AFC U-23 Championship qualification which was scheduled to take place the following month. Mongolia was part of Group H along with Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Ganbayar was 16 years old at the time.[44] In preparation for the tournament, the under-23 team competed against a team consisting of the Mongolian Premier League's best players. The under-23 team won 3–0 with Ganbayar scoring twice in the match. His second goal came from an impressive individual effort.[45][46] Following the match, the team departed for a 12-day training camp at the Mokpo International Football Center in South Korea in partnership with the KFA. They were scheduled to compete in friendlies against the South Korea under-19 team and a league team.[47] Mongolia was defeated by the Korean under-19 side 0–4.[48] Ganbayar then appeared in the team's next match, a 1–2 defeat to Jeju United who finished the 2016 season in third place in the K League Classic.[49] He started and played the full match of Mongolia's opening fixture of qualification, a 1–1 draw with Thailand.[50] In the match, he occasionally troubled the defense.[51] He then started the team's next match, a 0–7 defeat to Indonesia, before being subbed off in the second half.[52] Ganbayar came in as a 55th-minute substitute in Mongolia's final match of the tournament, a 0–2 defeat to Malaysia.[53] With only a mathematical chance of progressing going into the match, the defeat eliminated Mongolia from advancing to the final tournament.[54]

Personal life

Ganbayar is from Sükhbaatar in the Selenge Province.[55][4]

Honours

Club

Khoromkhon FC
Puskás Akadémia FC

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