Profile Joshua Christian Kojo King

Personal information :

Full name : Joshua Christian Kojo King
Date of birth : 15 January 1992
Place of birth : Oslo, Norway
Height : 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Forward
Current club : Manchester United
Number : 41
Youth career :
1998–2006 Romsås
2006–2008 Vålerenga
2008– Manchester United
Senior career :
2009– Manchester United
2010 Preston North End (loan)
National team :
2009– Norway U19

Career

Early years

Born in the Norwegian funds, Oslo, to a Gambian dad and a Norwegian mother, King grew upward in the suburb of Romsås. He originated his career with the regional club, Romsås IL, at the age of six, but gestured for Vålerenga in 2006, as shortly as he was 14. He waited with Vålerenga for pair seasons, but did not produce an arrival ago he was spotted via Manchester United scouts at Ole Gunnar Solskjær's summer college in 2007.

Manchester United

King gestured for Manchester United as shortly as he turned 16 in January 2008, and prepared his debut for the under-18 side in a 5–1 home defeat to Sunderland on 29 March 2008. He originated the chasing season via scoring four targets in four suits as the Manchester United Under-17s won the 2008 Milk Cup. He thereafter played in pair suits at first of the 2008–09 Premier Academy League season ago injury retained him out until January 2009.
Two sport afterwards his comeback, he scored pair targets in a 5–0 win across Bolton Wanderers on 31 January 2009.The chasing week, he was dubbed as an unused substitute for the parks in a Manchester Senior Cup suit against Stockport County, ago earning his park debut as a substitute for Robert Brady in a Premier Reserve League suit against Bolton Wanderers three days later. He was thereafter governed out via injury for another month, but recovered in time to play in the run-in to the end of the Under-18 league season, as United done in second position, 19 points behind winners Manchester City.

At the begin of the 2009–10 season, King came on as a substitute for Zoran Tošić in the final of the Lancashire Senior Cup, a 1–0 win across Bolton Wanderers. He thereafter began the reserves' first three league sport of the season, and was rewarded for his plays via being given a position on the bench for the first-team's League Cup third around suit against Wolverhampton Wanderers on 23 September 2009. He was given the #41 jersey and came on as an 81st-minute substitute for winning goal-scorer Danny Welbeck. Although King had pair opportunities to add to United's lead, the suit done 1–0 and United progressed to the fourth around of the competition.

Preston North End loan

On seven August 2010, King stringed Football League Championship side Preston North End on a three-month lend sell, becoming Preston's 1000th actor and linking upward with fellow United loanee Matthew James. He prepared his debut on eight August, emanating on as a 70th-minute substitute for Paul Hayes in Preston's 2–0 defeat via Doncaster Rovers on the opportunity day of the 2010–11 season. His first target for Preston came in his second suit, a first around League Cup tie against Stockport County; afterwards emanating on as a 72nd-minute substitute for Chris Brown, he intercepted a target kick from Andy Lonergan and curled the ball past the Stockport keeper, earning the final score 5–0. He had sooner additional an contribute afterwards running 60 yards down the right wing and traversing for Paul Hayes' second target – the fourth of the match.