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Noel Törnqvist
Personal information
Full name Noel Max Joachim Törnqvist
Date of birth (2002-02-01) 1 February 2002 (age 22)
Height 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) [1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Mjällby AIF
Number 1
Youth career
Snöstorp Nyhem FF
–2017 Halmstads BK
2018 IS Halmia
Senior career*
Years Team Apps ( Gls)
2019 IS Halmia 22 (0)
2020– Mjällby AIF 28 (0)
2021 → AFC Eskilstuna (loan) 10 (0)
International career‡
2019 Sweden U19 1 (0)
2022– Sweden U21 5 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 November 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11:23, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Noel Törnqvist (born 1 February 2002) is a Swedish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Mjällby AIF in Allsvenskan. [2]

Career

Törnqvist started his youth career in Snöstorp Nyhem FF as an outfield player. He went on to Halmstads BK and became a goalkeeper at age 15, [3] opting to join the smaller city rivals IS Halmia in 2018. This year, he also started playing with a helmet. He trained with several foreign clubs such as Leeds United in 2017 and Hellas Verona in 2018. [4] [5] [6] He represented Sweden in a U17 three-nation tournament, playing against the Czech Republic. [7]

Having played for Halmia in Division 2, the fourth tier of Swedish football, Törnqvist was signed by Mjällby AIF ahead of the 2020 season. [8] This was Halmia's largest sale in two decades, since Mikael Roth in 1998. [9]

The 2021 season saw Törnqvist loaned out to Superettan club AFC Eskilstuna. He played 10 matches for AFC, but featured infrequently. [2] When he was omitted from the starting eleven during the closing months of the season, he called it "not fair". [10] In 2022 he played only one league match, but this was his Allsvenskan debut, keeping a clean sheet against Djurgården. [2] He also prolonged his Mjällby contract until 2026. [11] In 2021 he was called up to Sweden U21 for the first time, [12] making his actual debut in 2022. [7]

In 2023 he played the 2022–23 Svenska Cupen final which Mjällby lost. [13] The coaches declared Törnqvist to be their first-choice goalkeeper for the season. [4] Shortly into the 2023 season, he received praise for ascending to the level of a good Allsvenskan goalkeeper. [14] [15]

References

  1. ^ "Noel Törnqvist". Fotbolltransfers (in Swedish). Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Noel Törnqvist at Soccerway. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Noel Törnqvist om landslagsdebuten" (in Swedish). SvFF. 12 October 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  4. ^ a b Billengren, Ludwig (21 March 2023). "Törnqvists försvarstal efter "svin-utspelet": "Jag är snäll"" (in Swedish). Fotbollskanalen. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  5. ^ Tuhcic, Damir (20 November 2017). "Noel Törnqvist testar med Leeds United" (in Swedish). Fotbolltransfers. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Noel Törnqvist testas av Hellas Verona" (in Swedish). Fotbolltransfers. 28 August 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  7. ^ a b "Noel Törnqvist" (in Swedish). SvFF. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  8. ^ Pearson, Sebastian (15 December 2019). "Officiellt: Mjällby värvar målvaktstalang" (in Swedish). Fotbollskanalen. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  9. ^ Ferhatovic, Muhamed (15 December 2019). "IS Halmias rekordtransfer – största på 20 år". P4 Halland (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  10. ^ "Landslagsmålvakten om petningen i AFC: "Inte fair"". Eskilstuna-Kuriren (in Swedish). Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  11. ^ Berander, Moa (17 July 2022). "Törnqvist förlänger med Mjällby: "En spelare vi tror på"" (in Swedish). Fotbollskanalen. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  12. ^ Holmberg, Henric (2 October 2021). "Trio kallas in till U21-landslaget efter återbud - första kallelsen för AIK-talang" (in Swedish). Fotbollskanalen. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  13. ^ Östman, Petter (18 May 2023). "Häcken vinner svenska cupen – krossade Mjällby". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  14. ^ von Knorring, Martin (10 May 2023). "Törnqvist hyllas: "Rest sig på ett fantastiskt sätt"" (in Swedish). Fotbollskanalen. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  15. ^ Pearson, Sebastian (23 August 2023). "Serie A-intresse för Törnqvist: "Lite intresse - men inget konkret"" (in Swedish). Fotbollskanalen. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
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