Pierre Emile Højbjerg

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Pierre Emile Højbjerg
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Pierre Emile Højbjerg (2017)
Personnel
Surname Pierre Emile Kordt Højbjerg
birthday 5th August 1995
place of birth Copenhagen ,  Denmark
size 185 cm
position Central midfield
Juniors
Years station
2003-2007 BK Skjold
2007-2009 FC Copenhagen
2009–2012 Brøndby IF
2012 FC Bayern Munich
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2012-2013 FC Bayern Munich II 44 (12)
2013-2016 FC Bayern Munich 17 0(0)
2015 →  FC Augsburg  (loan) 16 0(2)
2015-2016 →  FC Schalke 04  (loan) 23 0(0)
2016-2020 Southampton FC 109 0(4)
2020– Tottenham Hotspur 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2010-2011 Denmark U-16 6 0(0)
2011–2012 Denmark U-17 18 0(5)
2012-2013 Denmark U-19 6 0(3)
2013-2015 Denmark U-21 8 0(4)
2014– Denmark 33 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: July 19, 2020

2 As of November 18, 2019

Pierre Emile Kordt Højbjerg (born August 5, 1995 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish football player who also has French nationality . He is a Danish international and has been under contract with English first division club Tottenham Hotspur since August 2020 .

Career

societies

FC Copenhagen / Brøndby IF

Pierre Emile Højbjerg started playing football at BK Skjold, a club in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen, where Kenneth Zohoré and Yussuf Poulsen had also started playing football. He later moved to the FC Copenhagen Football School ( School of Excellence ) . He was supposed to play as a striker there, but preferred to play in midfield himself. In the meantime, he received an offer from Copenhagen's arch-rival Brøndby IF , which Højbjerg initially rejected, but finally accepted.

In his age group he was named Denmark's “Player of the Year”. Former Bayern player Björn Andersson , who works as a scout for FC Bayern Munich , recommended him to Michael Tarnat , the sporting director of the FC Bayern youth department.

FC Bayern Munich

At the beginning of the 2012/13 season, Højbjerg moved to the youth training center of FC Bayern Munich. According to his own statement, he decided against offers from clubs from Holland, Italy, England and Germany. Although he was actually intended for the club's U-19s, he only played a single game there on August 12, 2012 (1st matchday). Three days later he made his debut in the club 's second team trained by Mehmet Scholl . On April 13, 2013 (29th matchday) he came on substitute for his first Bundesliga appearance against 1. FC Nürnberg . At 17 years and 251 days, he became the youngest FC Bayern Munich player to play in the Bundesliga. He replaced the previous record holder David Alaba (17 years and 256 days). With the subsequent championship, Højbjerg was able to call himself the youngest player to ever become German champion in the Bundesliga, before Jamal Musiala won his Bundesliga debut on June 20, 2020 (33rd match day) in a 3-1 win at home against SC Freiburg at the age of 17 years and 115 days.

In September 2013, Højbjerg signed a professional contract with FC Bayern Munich that ran until the summer of 2016. In the 2013/14 season, he played 7 Bundesliga and 2 DFB Cup games, and played 14 times for the second team in the regional league. In the first half of the 2014/15 season he played 6 Bundesliga games, 3 games in the Champions League and 2 DFB Cup games for FC Bayern.

FC Augsburg

On January 8, 2015, Højbjerg extended his contract term with FC Bayern to June 30, 2018 and was loaned to league rivals FC Augsburg until the end of the 2014/15 season. On April 11, 2015, he scored his first Bundesliga goal in the game against SC Paderborn . For FC Augsburg it was the most successful season in the club's history; the fifth place in the table entitled to participate in the Europa League .

FC Schalke 04

For the 2015/16 season , Højbjerg initially returned to Bayern Munich. At the end of August 2015, it was loaned to FC Schalke 04 for the rest of the season . In the first half of the season Højbjerg played in twelve league games. There were also six games in the group stage of the Europa League and one game in the DFB Cup ; Overall, Højbjerg, who mostly played in the central or offensive midfield, came to 23 Bundesliga games for FC Schalke 04, who finished the season in fifth.

Southampton FC

In July 2016, Højbjerg moved to the Premier League for FC Southampton . He signed a five-year contract there. In the first two seasons he played 63 games and only recorded 1 goal and 1 assist. Under coach Ralph Hasenhüttl he was then captain and key player.

National team

U national teams

Pierre Emile Højbjerg played for the Danish U16 national team from 2010 to 2011 and played in six games, including three times in the Mercedes Benz Aegean Cup . Without having played for the U17 national team beforehand , he was nominated by coach Thomas Frank for the squad for the 2011 European Championship in Serbia . There the Danish U17 reached the semi-finals and were eliminated against Germany . Højbjerg came to three missions and subsequently took part in the 2011 World Cup in Mexico with this age group. There, the Danes were eliminated after the group stage, while Pierre Emile Højbjerg came to his only tournament appearance in the game against Australia. By 2012 he was used in 18 games and scored five goals.

From 2012 to 2013 Højbjerg played six times for the Danes U19 (three goals), including five times in qualifying for the 2013 European Championship . On October 11, 2013 he ran for the first time for the U21 national team in a 2-2 draw in the European Championship qualifier against Slovenia in Aalborg . With this age group, Pierre Emile Højbjerg qualified for the European Championship 2015 in the Czech Republic and reached the semi-finals there, where the Danes were eliminated against the eventual title holder Sweden . He came to three missions. Overall, Højbjerg came to eight games and scored four goals.

A national team

On May 28, 2014, Pierre Emile Højbjerg played for Denmark's senior national team for the first time in a 1-0 win in the friendly against Sweden in Copenhagen . In qualifying for the 2016 European Championship in France , he made seven appearances and despite a good starting position - after a defeat, a draw and two wins from the first four games, the Danes were second before the final sprint - and had to take third place thus into the play-offs, where Danish Dynamite was eliminated against the neighbor from Sweden and thus missed the final tournament. Højbjerg was used in these games. In the subsequent qualification for the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia , he was used in only three games and so he was not part of the Danish squad after successfully qualifying at the finals . Pierre Emile Højbjerg was used in eight games in the preliminary rounds for the Europe-wide European Championship 2021 , which was actually planned for 2020, but had to be postponed due to the Corona crisis. The Danes qualified for the finals as second in the group.

successes

Others

Højbjerg was born in Copenhagen as the son of a Dane and a French woman. In addition to Danish, he also has French citizenship .

Web links

Commons : Pierre Emile Højbjerg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Player list of the FIFA Club World Cup 2013 for FIFA (PDF)
  2. ↑ Interview on merkur-online .de (with Andreas Werner)
  3. ↑ Article on bold.dk
  4. ↑ Hojbjerg to Bavaria . spox.com , February 15, 2012
  5. ↑ Infographic: The most important Bundesliga records of all time . (As of January 20, 2015) on bundesliga.de . Retrieved April 24, 2015.
  6. ↑ Five Bayern talents celebrated their Bundesliga debut this season on the Bayern Munich homepage
  7. ↑ Article on ekstrabladet .dk
  8. ↑ Hojbjerg on loan to FC Augsburg on fcbayern.de from January 8, 2015, accessed on January 8, 2015
  9. ↑ Schalke 04 borrows Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg from schalke04.de until the end of the season , accessed on August 31, 2015
  10. ↑ FC Bayern München AG (Ed.): Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg moves to Southampton. In: FC Bayern Munich. July 11, 2016, accessed July 11, 2016 .
  11. ^ Southampton FC (Ed.): Saints complete Højbjerg signing. In: Southampton FC. July 11, 2016, accessed on July 11, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Bayern flop Hojbjerg flourishes . sport1.de, May 3, 2019
  13. ↑ Article on tipsbladet.dk
personal data
SURNAME Højbjerg, Pierre Emile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Højbjerg, Pierre Emile Kordt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark