Eric Andre Kahl (born 27 September 2001) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Danish Superliga club AGF. Kahl has represented AIK since he was 4 years old, when he joined the clubs academy. From there he has gone from youth and junior teams all the way to the first squad. Kahl signed in October 2019 his first professional contract with the club. He has since played over 30 games and has been one of the decisive players in the team. Since August 2020, Kahl belongs to the Swedish U21 national team. Prior to that, he had not represented any of Sweden's youth teams, apart from training with the U18 team but without playing time. Club career Early life Kahl was born and raised in Solna Municipality, in central Stockholm County, by a Thai mother and a Swedish father. He started playing for the youth team of the largest club in the Swedish capital, the team he supports, AIK, at age four. AIK 2020 season Kahl signed his first professional contract with AIK on October 17, 2019. The contract made him linked to the club until 31 December 2022. Kahl made his first-team debut for AIK and Allsvenskan debut on 28 June , 2020 playing the full match in a 2–2-draw against Malmö FF on Friends Arena in Solna. After the match, Kahl was highly praised by the media and also by the then head coach Rikard Norling. Norling meant that Kahl made a simple and stable effort. Kahl made his first assist in the Allsvenskan on October 18, 2020, when AIK played a home match at Friends Arena against rival IFK Göteborg. The assist came in the 61st minute when Kahl sent a ball to Henok Goitom who could then place the ball in the right cross after he shot outside the penalty area. The goal meant a 2–0 lead for AIK and it also became the final result. In November 2020, AIK's sports director Henrik Jurelius confirmed that the club had received an offer for Kahl, but they chose to refuse, reason? The bid must simply have been too low for AIK to agree to make a deal. Eric Kahl's agent Fredrik Söderström confirmed in an interview that there was interest in Kahl already during the summer of 2020, but that no concrete offer had been received by then. In September 2020, the Portuguese