Rick Ketting strengthen IFK Mariehamnin central defense next season playing in the veikkausliiga.IFK Mariehamn to strengthen the defense of the Dutch Rick Chain. AOP

perch country club IFK Mariehamn informed on Friday that he has acquired central defender Rick Kettingin from the Netherlands.

the 23-year-old Ketting has signed a one-year player contract with the club.

– we Expect Kettingin to be the highest league level of a player taking into account his background in the Dutch highest and the second-highest league, IFK follow the boss Peter Mattsson said in the announcement.

– He is relatively young and we believe that IFK is for him really a good place to make a breakthrough in the adult level. Ketting is almost 190 inches long, so he brings size to the main game, Mattsson continues.

Ketting arrived on the island in the Dutch second division Go Ahead Eagles. He has played in his career including Sparta Rotterdam and its youth team Jong Rotterdam in the ranks.