Wout Weghorst

Wout Weghorst
in the jersey of AZ Alkmaar , 2016
Personnel
birthday	August 7, 1992
place of birth	Borne ,  Netherlands
size	197 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
	RKSV NEO
	DETO Twenterand
	Willem II Tilburg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2012-2014	FC Emmen	62 (20)
2014-2016	Heracles Almelo	64 (20)
2016-2018	AZ Alkmaar	61 (32)
2018–	VfL Wolfsburg	69 (37)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2014	Netherlands U21	1 0(1)
2018–	Netherlands	4 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. As of June 27, 2020 2 As of November 19, 2019

Wout Weghorst (born August 7, 1992 in Borne , Overijssel province ) is a Dutch football player . The striker is under contract with VfL Wolfsburg and has been part of the Dutch national team since March 2018 .

Career

society

Netherlands

Weghorst came through the clubs RKSV NEO and DETO Twenterand from his home province of Overijssel to the youth of Willem II Tilburg . From 2012 he played for two seasons in the second-class Eerste Divisie at FC Emmen and moved to the first division for Heracles Almelo for the 2014/15 season . He made his Eredivisie debut on August 9, 2014 in the game against his future club AZ Alkmaar after being substituted on in the 69th minute.

For the 2016/17 season he moved to AZ Alkmaar and signed a contract that ran until 2020. On November 24, 2016 Weghorst scored his first goal in a European competition against Dundalk FC in the group stage of the 2016/17 Europa League .

Germany

For the season 2018/19 changed Weghorst first time abroad. He signed a contract with German Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg that was valid until June 30, 2022 . He scored his first Bundesliga goal for Wolfsburg in the 3-1 away win against Bayer 04 Leverkusen on September 1, 2018, the second matchday of that season. He played all 34 league games and was Wolfsburg's top scorer with 17 goals this season. With VfL, the Dutchman finished the season in 6th place, which meant qualifying for the group stage of the Europa League , and then received a contract extension until June 2023.

A year later, the Dutchman had only missed three of 45 competitive games and was not in the starting line-up in only one. 20 goals in all competitions as well as five assists once again made his importance for the club clear - the top scorers after him were Josip Brekalo with seven and Renato Steffen with six goals. In addition, the striker caught ten yellow cards, which was due, among other things, to his aggressive style of play. While you finished seventh in the Bundesliga and couldn't qualify directly for the Europa League, you were in the round of 16 this season. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , all European Cup competitions were initially not resumed in favor of league operations. The second leg of the second round on August 5, 2020 was lost 3-0 to Shakhtar Donetsk . Weghorst and his team were eliminated.

National team

Weghorst has been playing for the Dutch senior team since the beginning of 2018 . He made his debut on March 23, 2018 in a friendly against England when he came on for Stefan de Vrij in the 89th minute .

Personal

Weghorst has three brothers, none of whom are athletes. Up to the age of 23 he first studied business administration and then journalism .

Web links

• Wout Weghorst in the soccerway.com database
• Wout Weghorst in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wout Weghorst de nieuwe Bas Dost van Heracles Almelo. In: rtvoost.nl. Retrieved March 29, 2018 (Dutch). 
2. ↑ Match report Heracles Almelo - AZ Alkmaar In: soccerway.com . Retrieved March 29, 2018.
3. ↑ AZ puts Weghorst vast. In: az.nl. AZ Alkmaar , accessed March 29, 2018 (Dutch). 
4. ^ Match report Dundalk FC - AZ Alkmaar In: weltfussball.de . Retrieved March 29, 2018.
5. ↑ Striker Wout Weghorst comes to VfL. , vfl-wolfsburg.de, accessed on June 26, 2018
6. ↑ Wolfsburg's double strike ends Labbadia's Bayer curse , match report on kicker.de, accessed on September 18, 2018.
7. ↑ VfL top scorer extended , vfl-wolfsburg.de, accessed on July 5, 2019
8. ↑ Match report Netherlands - England. In: weltfussball.de. Retrieved March 29, 2018 . 
9. ↑ VfL star Weghorst in an interview: "Wout, forget football - you are not good enough!" , sportbuzzer.de, accessed on June 30, 2020