Oliver Vugrin Flindt Drost (born 4 November 1995) is a Danish

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who plays as a

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for

FC Helsingør FC Helsingør is a Danish football club from Helsingør. The club plays in the Danish 1st Division, having been promoted after winning the Danish 2nd Division in the 2019-2020 season. The club has finished the last two seasons in the top 4 of th ...

Career

B.93

In the spring 2014, Drost returned to his former youth club, B.93, where he joined the senior squad at the age of 18, signing a two-year contract and immediately debuted in the

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against

Næstved BK Næstved () is a town in the municipality of the same name, located in the southern part of the island of Zealand in Denmark. Næstved has several adult education centers, five elementary schools - and has at least one of each type of the four ...

. In the spring of 2014, Drost played 14 games, eight of them starting from the bench. In the following season, he played 26 games, scoring 8 goals. He left the club in the summer 2016, joining

Vejle Boldklub Vejle Boldklub is a Danish professional football club based in Vejle in Jutland. Formed in 1891, the club is one of the most successful clubs in Danish football history, having won the Danish championship five times and the Danish cup title six t ...

AC Horsens

On 31 August 2017 AC Horsens announced, that they had loaned Drost from Vejle for the rest of the year. Horsens bought him free at the end of the loan spell.

Kolding IF

On 23 October 2019, Drost joined

Kolding IF Kolding IF is an association football club based in Kolding, Denmark. The team competes in the Danish 2nd Division, the third tier of Danish football, after suffering relegation at the end of the 2020–21 season. Founded in 1895, Kolding IF pl ...

on a free agent on a contract for the rest of the year. The club announced on 4 January 2020, that he wouldn't get his contract extended.

AC Horsens

After a few weeks on trial, Drost returned to AC Horsens and signed a contract for the rest of the season. The club confirmed on 21 July 2020, that Drost would leave at the end of his contract.

Return to Kolding

On 8 September 2020, Drost returned to Kolding IF as a

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, signing a one-year contract.

Return to Helsingør

On 11 January 2021, Drost signed a pre-contract, in effect from 1 July 2021, with his former youth club

Personal life

Drost's father is from Croatia, while his mother is Danish. He is also the cousin of

Emil Berggreen Emil Berggreen (born 10 May 1993) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Danish Superliga club SønderjyskE. Career Brønshøj Brønshøj Boldklub signed Berggreen from FC Nordsjælland in the summer 2012. In his first ha ...

, who also is a footballer. Drost actually went on a trial at his cousins former club,

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, where Berggreen was playing for at the time. Oliver's sister, Olivia, is also a footballer and has also played for the Danish youth national teams.Olivia Drost profile on DBU
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Drost, Oliver Danish men's footballers 1995 births Living people Sportspeople from Helsingør Footballers from the Capital Region of Denmark Boldklubben af 1893 players Vejle Boldklub players AC Horsens players Kolding IF players Danish Superliga players Danish 1st Division players Danish 2nd Division players Men's association football forwards FC Rudersdal players FC Helsingør players Denmark men's youth international footballers