Jannik Vestergaard

Jannik Vestergaard
Jannik Vestergaard (2015)
Personnel
birthday	3rd August 1992
place of birth	Hvidovre ,  Denmark
size	199 cm
position	Central defense
Juniors
Years	station
	Vestia Copenhagen
	BK Frem
	Kjøbenhavns Boldklub
0000-2010	Brøndby IF
2010-2011	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2010-2011	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II	22 (4)
2011-2015	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	71 (4)
2015-2016	Werder Bremen	48 (3)
2016-2018	Borussia Monchengladbach	66 (7)
2018–	Southampton FC	34 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2010	Denmark U18	4 (1)
2010-2011	Denmark U-19	7 (0)
2011	Denmark U-20	2 (0)
2011-2015	Denmark U-21	28 (4)
2013–	Denmark	16 (1)
1 Only league games are given. As of January 8, 2020 2 As of June 2, 2018

Jannik Vestergaard (born August 3, 1992 in Hvidovre ) is a Danish - German football player . He is under contract with Southampton FC .

family

Vestergaard grew up in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen and is a Danish and German citizen . He speaks fluent German .

His German mother comes from Krefeld , his Danish father works in the Ministry of Justice in Copenhagen . His German grandfather Hannes Schröers and his uncle Jan Schröers were also active as soccer players. His cousin Mika Schröers plays for the youth of Borussia Mönchengladbach .

Career

societies

Vestergaard started playing football at Vestia Copenhagen when he was four . From there he later went to BK Frem , then to Kjøbenhavns Boldklub . Because of his growth, he was retrained from midfielder and striker to central defender . According to his own statements, he had a rapid growth spurt at Kjøbenhavns Boldklub in the first B-youth year , which had a negative impact; so the body did not adapt to the changed circumstances. Vestergaard was therefore at best a supplementary player. In the second B-youth year he then went to the suburb Brøndby IF . In Brøndby he was a top performer and also rose to the Danish national team. In the derby against his former club Kjøbenhavns Boldklub, he was noticed by scouts from TSG 1899 Hoffenheim - they actually wanted to spot a player from Kjøbenhavns Boldklub. A few weeks later Vestergaard played with Brøndby in Linkenheim at an indoor tournament; the team was eliminated in the semi-finals against the Hoffenheim A-youth. The Hoffenheim scouts then decided to sign Vestergaard.

For the 2010/11 season Vestergaard moved to TSG Hoffenheim and signed a professional contract for four years. At first he only played in the second team. On April 16, 2011, he made his professional debut on matchday 30 of the Bundesliga against Eintracht Frankfurt , when he came on for Ryan Babel in the 90th minute . He scored his first Bundesliga goal with a header on February 11, 2012 in a 1-1 draw against Werder Bremen . Both in the 2010/11 season and in the 2011/12 season, the club from the Kraichgau occupied eleventh place in the table to create relegation against 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the 2012/13 season ; Vestergaard scored a goal in the second leg. One season later, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim placed ninth.

Vestergaard moved to Werder Bremen on January 27, 2015. His contract ran until June 30, 2018. At the end of the season, the club placed tenth in the table and managed to stay in the league the following season with a 1-0 win on the last match day against Eintracht Frankfurt .

For the season 2016/17 Vestergaard joined Borussia Moenchengladbach . In two seasons he played 66 games in the Bundesliga. Vestergaard missed qualifying for the international competition with the foal eleven in both seasons by finishing ninth.

For the 2018/19 season, Vestergaard moved to the Premier League for Southampton FC .

National team

In 2010 and 2011 Vestergaard played 13 games for the Danish U-18, U-19 and U-20 national teams. As a U-21 national player , he qualified in 2014 for participation in the U-21 European Football Championship in 2015 . During this tournament he led the U-21 national team as team captain and reached the semi-finals, which were lost 4-1 to Sweden . For the U-21s he scored four goals in 28 games.

Since August 14, 2013 Vestergaard has been playing for the Danish national team . In the summer of 2015, coach Morten Olsen did not nominate him for the European Championship qualifiers against Albania and Armenia . Vestergaard then said he could imagine playing for the German national team as he had not yet played a competitive game for the Danish national team. However, since his first competitive game for the Danish national team on November 17, 2015 in the European Championship play-off second leg against Sweden , a change of association is no longer possible. In this game, Vestergaard scored the goal to make it 2-2, but it was not enough to qualify for the Euro 2016 .

In November 2017 Vestergaard qualified with the Danish national team for the 2018 World Cup ; in the qualification he came to three missions. Denmark finished second behind Poland and qualified for participation in the play-offs , in which the Danish side beat Ireland . Vestergaard was part of the Danish squad at the World Cup in Russia , but was not used.

Web links

• Jannik Vestergaard in the database of weltfussball.de
• Jannik Vestergaard in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Jannik Vestergaard in the database of transfermarkt.de
• International matches with the Danish Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} TSG 1899 Hoffenheim Fußball-Spielbetriebs GmbH (ed.): JANNIK VESTERGAARD: THE LONG. In: eighteen99. March 30, 2011, accessed April 27, 2016 . 
2. ^ Article ( Memento of December 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the Radio Bremen website
3. ↑ Sport 1 GmbH (ed.): Löw: Vestergaard for the time being “no issue”. In: sport1.de. September 3, 2015, accessed December 5, 2016 . 
4. ^ Niels O. Hansen: Dansk forsvarskomet overvejer det tyske landshold. In: Berlingske. Berlingske / Berlingske Media, September 2, 2015, accessed on February 11, 2017 (Danish). 
5. ↑ Krefeld: Jannik Vestergaard-Danish U19 footballer with Krefeld roots ( memento from August 25, 2012 on WebCite ), pressemeldung-nrw.de
6. ↑ Jannik Vestergaard in portrait  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Achtzehn99.de  
7. ↑ ^{a b} Borussia VfL 1900 Mönchengladbach GmbH (Ed.): Borussia obliges Jannik Vestergaard. In: Borussia Mönchengladbach. June 11, 2016. Retrieved June 12, 2016 . 
8. ↑ see squad on the website of Borussia Mönchengladbach
9. ↑ Firmino comes and brings the decision , kicker.de
10. ↑ Werder Bremen: Vestergaard signs with Werder until 2018 ( memento of January 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), January 27, 2015, accessed on January 27, 2015.
11. ↑ Borussia VfL 1900 Mönchengladbach (Ed.): Vestergaard changes to FC Southampton. In: Borussia Mönchengladbach. July 13, 2018, accessed July 13, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Southampton FC (ed.): Saints seal Vestergaard deal. In: Southampton FC. July 13, 2018, accessed on July 13, 2018 . 
13. ^ U-21 European Championship, 2015, semi-finals accessed on October 29, 2015
14. ↑ Vestergaard: "No chance in the national team" August 31, 2015, accessed on October 30, 2015
15. ↑ EM play-offs Denmark - Sweden kicker.de, from November 17, 2015, accessed on November 17, 2015
16. ↑ aho / drm: Oh Lord! Danes without Bendtner to the World Cup. In: kicker online. Olympia Verlag GmbH, June 3, 2018, accessed on July 14, 2018 .