Pierre Bengtsson

This article is about the Swedish national player and Bundesliga player Pierre Bengtsson. For the former soccer player of the same name, see Pierre Bengtsson (Soccer Player, 1979) .

Pierre Bengtsson
Pierre Bengtsson (2018)
Personnel
Surname	Pierre Thomas Robin Bengtsson
birthday	April 12, 1988
place of birth	Kumla ,  Sweden
size	176 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2004	IFK Kumla
2004-2006	AIK Solna
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2006-2009	AIK Solna	43 (0)
2009-2011	FC Nordsjælland	39 (1)
2011-2014	FC Copenhagen	107 (2)
2015-2017	1. FSV Mainz 05	29 (0)
2016-2017	→  SC Bastia  (loan)	30 (1)
2017–	FC Copenhagen	29 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2003-2004	Sweden U-15 / U-16	7 (1)
2006	Sweden U18	2 (0)
2007-2011	Sweden U-21	20 (1)
2011–	Sweden	21 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of December 2, 2018 2 As of June 14, 2015

Pierre Thomas Robin Bengtsson (born April 12, 1988 in Kumla ) is a Swedish football player . The midfielder , who has played through several youth selections for the Swedish Football Association and is a senior international , is under contract with FC Copenhagen .

Career

Start of career at AIK

Bengtsson first played in the youth of IFK Kumla , a club from his birthplace. There he knew how to convince and attracted the interest of almost all of Sweden's major football clubs, with AIK Solna prevailing and bringing him into his youth department in 2004.

After Bengtsson had initially played for two years exclusively in the youth division of AIK, he made his professional debut in the Allsvenskan on August 27, 2006 in the league game against Östers IF . At first he was used irregularly and was used as a substitute for most of his games. Nevertheless, he developed into a candidate for the Swedish U-21 national team . After he had competed for several Swedish youth selections in previous years, he made his debut on November 21, 2007 in the 3-0 defeat against the Turkish U-21 selection . As a result, he established himself in the U-21 squad and earned a regular place in the AIK competition team during the 2008 season. As fifth in the table, he missed a place in the European Cup with the club .

In the 2009 season Bengtsson lost his regular place on the offensive at AIK, but was able to hold on to the junior national team. The selection coaches Tommy Söderberg and Jörgen Lennartsson appointed him at the end of May alongside his club mates Per Karlsson and Gabriel Özkan for the Swedish squad for the U-21 European Championship in Sweden . In the course of the tournament he remained without a game.

Five and a half years in Denmark

At the end of the summer transfer window in 2009 changed Bengtsson for FC Nordsjælland in the Danish Superliga and got the jersey number he gave 27 his competitive debut for his new club in late September at the 4: 1 away win in the Cup match at AB Copenhagen in which he the hit for intermediate 2 : 0 lead scored. Then he also played in the league in the regular formation. After his old club AIK won the championship at the end of the Allsvenskansaeason 2009 and he had completed more than half of the season games before changing clubs, he was named Swedish champion at the end of the year. At the side of Michael Parkhurst , Patrice Bernier and his compatriots Benjamin Kibebe and Rawez Lawan , he finished his first season in Denmark as seventh in the table. He also stayed in the U-21 national team, with which he took part in qualifying for the 2011 U-21 European Championship .

1. FSV Mainz 05, loan to FC Bastia and return to Copenhagen

On January 1, 2015, Bengtsson moved to the Bundesliga for 1. FSV Mainz 05 after his contract in Copenhagen had expired on December 31, 2014 . He signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2018. In order to gain match practice, he was awarded to the French first division club SC Bastia for the 2016/17 season .

During the summer break of 2017, he returned to FC Copenhagen and signed a contract that will run until 2022.

Web links

Commons : Pierre Bengtsson  - Collection of Images

• Pierre Bengtsson in the database of weltfussball.de
• Pierre Bengtsson in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Profile on the website of FC Copenhagen
• Pierre Bengtsson in the database of the Swedish Football Association (Swedish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ aik.se: "Ny talang väljer AIK" ( Memento from August 25, 2004 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed February 6, 2008)
2. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: svenskfotboll.se: "U21 herr: Förlust i säsongsavslutningen mot Turkiet" ) (accessed February 6, 2008)
3. ↑ svenskafans.com: "Per Karlsson, Bengtsson och Özkan uttagna till U21 EM" (accessed June 5, 2009)
4. ↑ expressen.se: "Pierre Bengtsson till Nordsjälland" ( Memento of September 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed January 7, 2010)
5. ↑ fodbold.nu: "FCN-spiller får svensk guld" (accessed on January 7, 2010)
6. ↑ Mainz 05 signs Pierre Bengtsson (accessed on November 23, 2014)
7. ↑ Bengtsson on loan to SC Bastia mainz05.de, accessed on August 30, 2016
8. ↑ Bengtsson back to FC Copenhagen ( Memento from May 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ PIERRE BENGTSSON VENDER TILBAGE TIL FCK on fck.dk (Danish)