Martin Braithwaite

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Martin Braithwaite
Personnel
Surname Martin Braithwaite Christensen
birthday June 5, 1991
place of birth Esbjerg ,  Denmark
size 180 cm
position Midfield , storm
Juniors
Years station
Sædding-Guldager Idrætsforening
Esbjerg fB
2007 FC Midtjylland
2007-2009 Esbjerg fB
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2009-2013 Esbjerg fB 89 (17)
2013-2017 Toulouse FC 136 (35)
2017-2018 Middlesbrough FC 36 0(8)
2018 →  Girondins Bordeaux  (loan) 14 0(4)
2019-2020 CD Leganés 43 (10)
2020– FC Barcelona 4 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2008 Denmark U17 3 0(0)
2009 Denmark U18 4 0(0)
2009-2010 Denmark U19 11 0(2)
2012 Denmark U20 1 0(0)
2012 Denmark U21 2 0(0)
2013– Denmark 39 0(7)
1 Only league games are given.
As of June 14, 2020

2 As of November 18, 2019

Martin Braithwaite (born June 5, 1991 in Esbjerg ) is a Danish football player . He is under contract with FC Barcelona and is a Danish international .

Career

societies

Beginnings in Denmark

The son of a Guyanese father joined the Esbjerg Sædding-Guldager Idrætsforening (SGI) as a child and moved to the youth department of Esbjerg fB before joining the youth team at FC Midtjylland in 2007. A short time later he returned to Esbjerg fB and made his debut in the men's division on October 4, 2009 in the 1: 2 defeat in the away game on matchday 10 against FC Copenhagen . After the end of the 2010/11 season , he rose with the team as bottom of the table in the 1st division and in the 2011/12 season again directly. As the table sixth of the 2012/13 season, Esbjerg fB qualified for the play-offs for the 2013/14 Europa League . In the 2013-14 season , Braithwaite played four more times and then left the club.

Toulouse FC

In August 2013 he moved to France for Toulouse FC . At the end of his first season he finished ninth in the table with the team and escaped in the 2014/15 and 2015/16 seasons as 17th in the table. just about the descent. After his last season and a total of 35 goals in 136 league games, Braithwaite left Toulouse FC. His contract ran until 2019.

Via Middlesbrough and Bordeaux to Leganés

For the 2017/18 season , Braithwaite moved to the English second division club Middlesbrough , with whom he signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2021. After 19 league games (five goals), he joined Girondins Bordeaux on loan until the end of the season at the end of January 2018 . In 14 league games he scored 4 goals.

For the 2018/19 season Braithwaite returned to Middlesbrough FC. By the end of December he had scored 3 goals in 17 league games (12 times from the start).

On January 1, 2019, Braithwaite switched to the Spanish first division club CD Leganés on loan until the end of the season . By the end of the season he scored 4 goals in 19 appearances (16 times from the start) in the Primera División. For the 2019/20 season , CD Leganés acquired the transfer rights to Braithwaite. By mid-February 2020, he had scored 6 goals in 24 league games (21 times from the start).

Change to FC Barcelona

After two offensive players at FC Barcelona , Luis Suárez and Ousmane Dembélé, suffered long-term injuries after the transfer window had closed on January 31, 2020, the Spanish association granted the club the exemption to sign a player from Spain outside the transfer window. On February 20, FC Barcelona pulled Braithwaites' € 18m release clause . He signed a contract that runs until June 30, 2024, which includes an exit clause of 300 million euros. For the knockout phase of the Champions League 2019/20 Braithwaite is not eligible to play since the late notification period had expired on 3 February.

National team

Martin Braithwaite played three times for the Danish U17 national team , four times for the U18 , eleven times for the U19 national team and once for the U20 national team . With the U21 national team , after two defeats against Spain in the play-offs (0: 5 and 1: 3) in October 2012 , he missed qualifying for the 2013 U21 European Championship in Israel .

Braithwaite would also have been eligible to play for the Guyanese senior team. However, he declined a corresponding offer in July 2012. On June 5, 2013, he made his debut in the Danish senior team in a 2-1 win in a test match in Aalborg against Georgia ; he was substituted for Nicklas Pedersen after 61 minutes . He was used in six qualifying games for the European Championship 2016 , the Danish team missed the qualification.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eurosport (ed.): Chambreur, cool, Eboué: Les huit choses à savoir sur Martin Braithwaite (TFC). In: eurosport. Retrieved July 26, 2016 (French).
  2. ↑ Game data on transfermarkt.de
  3. ↑ Jesper Olsen: Officielt: Braithwaite clear for Toulouse. In: bold.dk. Sport Publish OÜ, August 16, 2013, accessed April 18, 2018 (Danish).
  4. ↑ Mikkel Nøhr: Braithwaite forlænger med Toulouse. In: bold.dk. Sport Publish OÜ, September 13, 2016, accessed April 20, 2018 (Danish).
  5. ↑ Martin Braithwaite Completes Boro Move From Toulouse , mfc.co.uk, July 13, 2017, accessed February 20, 2020.
  6. ↑ Middlesbrough FC (Ed.): Deadline Day: Braithwaite Returns To France In Loan Move. In: Middlesbrough FC. January 31, 2018, accessed April 30, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Middlesbrough's Martin Braithwaite joins Leganes on loan , skysports.com, January 3, 2019, accessed February 20, 2020.
  8. ↑ Braithwaite Joins Leganes , mfc.co.uk, July 24, 2019, accessed February 20, 2020.
  9. ↑ Exemption granted! Barça may sign a replacement for Dembélé , eurosport.de, February 18, 2020, accessed on February 20, 2020.
  10. ↑ FC Barcelona sign Martin Braithwaite , fcbarcelona.com, February 20, 2020, accessed on February 20, 2020.
  11. ↑ Barça makes Braithwaite purchase perfect - No eligibility to play in the Champions League , transfermarkt.de, February 20, 2020, accessed on February 20, 2020.
  12. ↑ Report on the website of the Danish Football Association, accessed on May 1, 2018
  13. ↑ Morten Top: Esbjerg profile takker nej til landshold. In: bold.dk. bold.dk Danmark ApS / Sport Publish OÜ, July 18, 2012, accessed on July 26, 2016 (Danish).
  14. ↑ Match dates on the Danish Football Association's website
personal data
SURNAME Braithwaite, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Esbjerg , Denmark