Here is all you need to know about Viktor Gyokeres including his age, height, parents career, records, and more about the Swedish footballer
Mauricio Pochettino’s team has been linked to Viktor Gyokeres as a potential striker during the transfer window, and this is not the only name associated with Chelsea.
Who is Sweden footballer Viktor Gyokeres, bio, age, height, parents, girlfriend, salary, position and style of play
Reports state that their £73 million bid for Sporting Lisbon forward Viktor Gyokeres was turned down.
Who is Viktor Gyökeres?
Swedish forward Viktor Einar Gyökeres was born on June 4, 1998 in Stockholm, Sweden and is a professional football player for both the Sweden national team and Sporting CP of the Primeira Liga. The 25-year-old Swedish stands 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) tall.
Viktor Gyokeres’ parents are both Swedish and his father, Mikael Gyokeres, is a former professional footballer who played as a defender. His mother, Katarina Gyokeres, is a former handball player.
Moving to Sporting CP in the summer of 2023 for the 2023–24 season, the weekly wage that Gyokeres currently earns is vastly more than his weekly wage at Coventry and the Swedish forward is currently earning a reported £39,735 a week at the Portuguese giants.
A loom at Viktor Gyökeres’ career
Gyökeres signed with Brighton & Hove Albion three years after making his senior debut with Swedish team Brommapojkarna in 2015. He played with the team for more than fifty games.
Prior to making his debut for the senior national team in 2019, Gyökeres made his youth international debut for Sweden in 2017. He was also the joint top goalscorer at the 2017 UEFA European Under-19 Championship.
Talking about his international career, Gyökeres represented Sweden in youth football at the under-19 and under-21 levels. Throughout Sweden’s quest to qualify for the 2017 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Gyökeres was a regular starter and scored twice.
After that, he was called up to the team that competed in the tournament in Georgia. He scored goals in each of Sweden’s three group stage matches, but he was unable to assist his country in making it to the tournament’s knockout round.
Gyökeres made his senior international debut for the Swedish national football team on January 8, 2019, during a 0-1 loss to Finland. Gyökeres scored his first senior goal for Sweden in a 2–2 draw against Iceland just three days later.
In a game played on the road against Belgium on October 16, 2023, Romelu Lukaku tied the score after Viktor Gyökeres had given Sweden the lead in the fifteenth minute.
Who is Viktor Gyökeres’ girlfriend?
He was romantically involved with professional football player Amanda Nildén. However, it was made public that he was seeing Portuguese actress Inês Aguiar in January 2024.