Alexander Ring

Alexander Michael Ring (born 9 April 1991) is a Finnish professional footballer who captains and plays as an midfielder for Major League Soccer club Austin FC.

Club Career

Early career

He moved to Bonn with his family when aged three, and grew up there and in Belgium. Ring went through the ranks of Bayer 04 Leverkusen before returning to Finland with his family in 2008.

HJK

He signed for HJK's reserve team Klubi-04 in 2009, and represented them until being promoted to the first team, and signed full professional contract with the club in August 2010. However, Ring was loaned out to Tampere United for the rest of that season. He returned to HJK after the season, and was established as the first choice holding midfielder for HJK in early 2011. On 26 September 2011, he signed a contract extension with HJK, keeping him in the Finnish capital until 2015. During December 2011, it was rumored that German Bundesliga side Borussia Monchengladbach were interested in signing the young Finn for approximately one million euros.

Loan to Monchengladbach

On 5 January 2012, it was announced that Monchengladbach had signed Ring on loan until the summer 2013, with having an option to buy at the end of the season. On 10 March 2012, Ring made his Bundesliga debut for Monchengladbach against Freiburg, and on 21 August Ring scored his first goal for Monchengladbach in a 1–3 defeat to Ukrainian Dynamo Kiev in the first leg of 2012–13 UEFA Champions League's playoff-round. However, despite some encouraging displays for the club, Ring soon fell out of favour, and in February 2013 it was announced that Borussia would not use their option to buy the player.

1. FC Kaiserslautern

In June 2013, he signed a contract with 1.

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