Simon Poulsen
| Simon Poulsen | ||
 Simon Poulsen (2011)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Simon Busk Poulsen | |
| birthday | October 7, 1984 | |
| place of birth | Sønderborg , Denmark | |
| size | 184 cm | |
| position | Full-back (left) | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1989–? | SUB Sønderborg | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2002-2004 | IK Sønderjylland | 45 (16) |
| 2004-2005 | SønderjyskE | 26 (7) |
| 2005-2007 | FC Midtjylland | 63 (5) |
| 2008–2012 | AZ Alkmaar | 93 (6) |
| 2012-2014 | Sampdoria Genoa | 7 (0) |
| 2014-2015 | AZ Alkmaar | 42 (3) |
| 2015-2017 | PSV Eindhoven | 2 (0) |
| 2015-2017 | Jong PSV | 16 (1) |
| 2017-2019 | SønderjyskE | 24 (1) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2002-2003 | Denmark U-19 | 7 (0) |
| 2003-2004 | Denmark U-20 | 7 (0) |
| 2005-2006 | Denmark U-21 | 11 (1) |
| 2007-2015 | Denmark | 35 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Simon Busk Poulsen (born October 7, 1984 in Sønderborg ) is a former Danish football player .
From 2002 to the end of 2007 he played in his native Denmark in the Superliga for SønderjyskE Fodbold and for FC Midtjylland . From 2008 to the beginning of 2017, Poulsen was under contract abroad, although - apart from a one and a half year interlude in Italy with Sampdoria Genoa - he had only played in the Netherlands with AZ Alkmaar and PSV Eindhoven . In the Eredivisie he completed 137 missions in which he scored six goals. In addition, Simon Poulsen played 35 games for the Danish national team and took part in both the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the 2012 European Championship in Poland and Ukraine .
Career
society
Youth and first steps in professional football (until 2007)
Poulsen's father is American and his mother is Danish. He grew up in Ulkebøl . and joined SUB Sønderborg as a child. In 2002 he made his debut in the first team of IK Sønderjylland, which merged with other teams to form Sønderjysk Elitesport in early 2004 . A year later he moved from there to FC Midtjylland . In the 2005/06 season the club finished seventh in the table and in the following season FC Midtjylland was runner-up.
Championship title and European Cup appearances with AZ Alkmaar (2008 to 2012)
During the winter break of the 2007/08 season, Poulsen moved to the Netherlands for AZ Alkmaar , where he signed a contract that ran until 2012. On January 13, 2008 he made his debut for the North Holland when he came on in the 1: 6 defeat on Matchday 19 in the 74th minute for Barry Opdam . With AZ Alkmaar, Poulsen became Dutch champions in 2009 and played in the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League (until 2009 UEFA Cup ).
From the Netherlands to Italy and back (2012 to 2017)
On August 25, 2012, Poulsen moved to Italy to join Serie A promoted Sampdoria Genoa . Due to injury, he could not earn a regular place and only came to seven point games.
In January 2014 Poulsen returned to the Eredivisie to AZ Alkmaar and placed with the club at the end of the season in eighth place and was eliminated in the following play-off games for participation in qualifying for the UEFA Europa League at FC Groningen . The following season the club was third in the league and qualified for the second qualifying round for the UEFA Europa League .
For the 2015/16 season he moved to PSV Eindhoven and signed a two-year contract. With PSV Eindhoven, Poulsen won the Dutch championship in 2016, but was unable to secure a regular place - also due to injury.
Career finale at SønderjyskE (2017-2019)
On January 31, 2017, Poulsen joined his former club SønderjyskE . He signed a contract that ran until December 31, 2018. As fifth in the championship round, SønderjyskE missed the renewed participation in the international competition. In the new season, the 2017/18 season , Simon Poulsen played 16 games and scored his only goal of the season in the home game against AC Horsens on September 16, 2017. With the eighth place in the table SønderjyskE went into the relegation round, in which Poulsen came only to two inserts; Second in the table, the club from the Danish-German border region qualified for the play-offs and lost to Aarhus GF in the final . Simon Poulsen was only used in the semi-final first leg against Hobro IK . In the following season he played in every game from the fifth match day, but ended his active career on January 4, 2019.
National team
From 2002 to 2006 Poulsen made seven games for the U-19s, a further seven for the U-20s and eleven games for the Danish U-21 national team and completed his 1-0 friendly win against Germany on March 28, 2017 in Duisburg first game for the Danish senior team . He came on in the 76th minute for Dennis Rommedahl . In November of the same year, two more internationals followed against Northern Ireland (1: 2) and Iceland (3: 0).
On May 27, 2010, after three years in a 2-0 win in a friendly against Senegal, he played an international match again. At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa , he was used in all three group games. In the first group game against the Netherlands , he scored an own goal to make it 0-1 (final score 0-2). The Danes were eliminated after the group stage. As a result, he came to three appearances in qualifying for the European Football Championship 2012 in Poland and the Ukraine and was also appointed by Morten Olsen in the squad for the final round . Poulsen was used in all three games in the group stage and was eliminated from the tournament as third in the group with the national team.
In the preliminary round for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil , he came in three games for use; as the worst runners-up in the group, qualification was missed. Later on the qualification for the European Football Championship 2016 in France and in this Poulsen played in one game; the qualification was missed in the play-offs against Sweden (1: 2/2: 2).
successes
- Dutch champion : 2009 and 2016
Web links
- Simon Poulsen in the database of weltfussball.de
- Profile at the Danish Association
- Simon Poulsen on the SønderjyskE website
Individual evidence
- ^ Søren Olsen: Dansk back vil forsøge at ignorere racistiske tilråb. In: Politiken. Om Politiken, June 2012, accessed July 19, 2016 (Danish).
- ↑ Anders Hjelmer Paulsen: Affirmed: Simon Poulsen skifter tilbage til SønderjyskE. In: Jydske Vestkysten. January 31, 2017, accessed February 6, 2017 (Danish).
- ↑ Simon Poulsen vender tilbage til Ulkebøl (Danish) jv.dk, accessed on May 21, 2010
- ↑ Game data on transfermarkt.de
- ↑ DE PERSGROEP Nederland (ed.): Simon Poulsen naar Sampdoria. In: Algemeen Dagblad. August 25, 2012, accessed February 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Jens Kragh Iversen: Simon Poulsen changes to PSV Eindhoven. In: nordschleswiger.dk. Der Nordschleswiger, May 15, 2015, archived from the original on September 20, 2016 ; accessed on August 17, 2015 .
- ↑ Poulsen vertrekt naar PSV , az.nl, May 15, 2015, accessed unknown (Dutch)
- ↑ PSV puts Simon Poulsen twee seizoenen vast , May 15, 2015, psv.nl, accessed unknown (Dutch)
- ^ PSV NV (ed.): Poulsen keert terug naar Denemarken. In: PSV Eindhoven. January 31, 2017, accessed February 1, 2017 (Dutch).
- ↑ Kell Haugaard: SønderjyskE Henter Simon Poulsen i PSV. In: SønderjyskE. Sønderjysk Elitesport A / S, January 31, 2017, accessed February 1, 2017 (Danish).
- ^ Jacob Ravn: Simon Poulsen stiller støvlerne og bliver træner i SønderjyskE. In: SønderjyskE Fodbold . Sønderjysk Elitesport A / S, January 4, 2019, accessed March 9, 2020 (Danish).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Poulsen, Simon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Poulsen, Simon Busk (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sønderborg , Denmark |