Yussuf Poulsen

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Yussuf Poulsen
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Yussuf Poulsen (2016)
Personnel
Surname Yussuf Yurary Poulsen
birthday June 15, 1994
place of birth Copenhagen ,  Denmark
size 192 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
BK Skjold
0000–2012 Lyngby BK
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2012-2013 Lyngby BK 34 (11)
2013– RB Leipzig 209 (57)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2010 Denmark U16 1 0(0)
2010-2011 Denmark U17 19 0(2)
2011–2012 Denmark U18 7 0(4)
2012-2013 Denmark U19 12 0(8)
2012 Denmark U20 3 0(0)
2013-2015 Denmark U21 15 0(4)
2014– Denmark 43 0(7)
1 Only league games are given.
As of May 24, 2020

2 As of November 18, 2019

Yussuf Yurary Poulsen (born June 15, 1994 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish football player . The striker is under contract with RB Leipzig and plays for the Danish national team .

origin

Poulsen is the son of a Tanzanian father and a Danish mother. His father Yurary, who died of cancer in 1999 , had worked on a container ship that commuted between Africa and Denmark and stayed in Copenhagen.

Career

societies

Beginnings in Denmark

Poulsen began playing football at BK Skjold as a defender and played together with Kenneth Zohoré in a team. After he had switched to the offspring of FC Copenhagen , the coach Poulsen used in the storm. At the age of 14 he moved from BK Skjold to the youth of Lyngby BK . As part of the youth team of Lyngby BK, he made his professional debut on December 4, 2011; On the 18th day of the Superliga in the game against AC Horsens he was substituted on in the 84th minute for Mathias Tauber . At the end of the season he had come to five missions. With Lyngby BK he was relegated from the super league. On August 5, 2012 he played in the 1-0 win on the second match day against AB Gladsaxe for the first time in the second division; he was substituted on in the 61st minute and scored the winning goal in the 80th minute. In this season he came to 29 point games and eleven goals. The rise was missed as fourth in the table. On May 20, 2013 he played in the 2: 4 defeat on the 33rd and final game day, again against AB Gladsaxe, last time for Lyngby BK.

Change to RB Leipzig

Poulsen turned down requests from top division clubs and signed a four-year contract with RB Leipzig on July 4, 2013 . In his first season he played 36 of the 38 league games, scored ten goals and was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga with RB at the end of the season . On the 2nd match day of the 2014/15 season , Poulsen scored the club's first second division goal. As a result, the Dane was a regular player and was finally promoted to the Bundesliga with RB in spring 2016 . The first year in the German top flight ended Leipzig same as runners, Poulsen was able to contribute nine points scorer. The following European Cup season was the first for players and clubs alike, after the group phase of the Champions League they did not survive , they made it to the quarter-finals of the Europa League . In the end, Poulsen had 15 scorer points in 41 competitive games.

In the 2018/19 season, the attacker only missed seven out of 52 compulsory games in the league as well as in national and international cup competitions due to injury and was able to record his best performance for RB Leipzig with 19 hits and eight assists. A DFB Cup final was played for the first time in spring 2019 , but it was lost to FC Bayern Munich . Poulsen's contract had already been extended to June 2022 in advance. At 5-0 in Mainz on matchday 27 of the 2019/20 Bundesliga season , in which he also scored once, the Dane completed his 250th competitive game for RB Leipzig, of which he is also the record player. With the team, Poulsen was again third in the table and for the first time in the club's history reached the eighth, quarter and semi-finals of the Champions League .

National team

Poulsen played for the Danish U16 national team . He took part in the 2011 European Championships in Serbia with the U17s . Poulsen played at this tournament in four games and reached the semi-finals with his team, in which the Danish team were eliminated by Germany . By participating in the semi-finals, the Danish U17 qualified for the U17 World Cup 2011 in Mexico , where the Danish U17 national team was eliminated after the group stage; Poulsen was used in all three group games. In the following period he was used in seven games for the U18 team , in twelve for the U19 national team and in three for the U20. On August 14, 2013 Poulsen played for the Danish U21 national team for the first time when he played through in the 4-1 friendly win in Dungannon against Northern Ireland. A year later, on October 11, 2014, he made his debut 1-1 in the European Championship qualifier against Albania for the Danish national team in Elbasan . Meanwhile, the Danish U21 national team qualified for participation in the 2015 European Championship finals in the Czech Republic .

In May and June 2015 he was nominated by senior national coach Morten Olsen for the friendly against Montenegro and by U21 coach Jess Thorup for the squad for the European Championship finals. At the U21 European Championship, he and the team qualified for the semi-finals and participation in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro . In the quarter-finals, Poulsen was eliminated with the Danish team against Nigeria.

In qualifying for the 2016 European Championship finals for the senior national teams, Poulsen made six appearances. In the relegation against Sweden he came into play in the first leg on November 14, 2015 in the Friends Arena in Solna in the closing phase as a substitute and prepared the connecting goal for Nicolai Jørgensen ; Denmark lost the game 2-1. In the second leg at Parken in Copenhagen three days later, Poulsen scored a goal; the game ended 2-2, which meant that Denmark missed out on the finals in France.

Poulsen was appointed to the Danish squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia . In the first group game on June 16, he scored the 1-0 winner against Peru . The team was eliminated after finishing second in Group C against Croatia in the round of 16 on penalties .

successes

RB Leipzig

Personal

In Danish club football, Poulsen did not wear a jersey with his last name, but with his middle name “Yurary” in memory of his father of the same name, who died of cancer in 1999. Also in the Danish national team he wears the name Yurary on his back. In the Danish capital, he and two friends have been running Café Social since February 2016 .

In September 2019, he and his fiancée became parents of a son.

In addition to his mother tongue , the Dane is also fluent in German .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Roth: Signed: Yussuf Poulsen strengthens RB Leipzig - first missions at the weekend. In: lvz.de . July 4, 2013, accessed July 4, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Goalscorer against Peru Why Leipzig star Poulsen has a different name at the World Cup , mopo.de, June 16, 2018, accessed on June 18, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c d From the club magazine: Yussuf Poulsen and his way to RB Leipzig! In: The Red Bulls. March 18, 2014, accessed July 25, 2015 .
  4. ↑ National player as 5th newcomer: Yussuf Poulsen storms for the Red Bulls! (No longer available online.) July 4, 2013, archived from the original on July 7, 2013 ; Retrieved July 4, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Early contract extension with Yussuf Poulsen until 2022! . dierotenbullen.com, accessed March 14, 2019
  6. ↑ Match data on the website of the Danish Football Association
  7. ↑ Mikkel Nøhr: Olsen udtager yderligere syv U21-spillere. In: bold.dk. bold.dk Danmark ApS / Sport Publish OÜ, June 2, 2015, accessed on June 16, 2016 (Danish).
  8. ^ Mikael Blond: Okore, Højbjerg og Jønsson med til EM. In: bold.dk. bold.dk Danmark ApS / Sport Publish OÜ, June 1, 2015, accessed on June 16, 2015 (Danish).
  9. ↑ Yurary instead of Poulsen: That's why the Danish star with a different name appeared in the DFB test. In: express.de. June 7, 2017. Retrieved October 15, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Goalscorer against Peru: Why Leipzig star Poulsen appears under a different name at the World Cup. In: express.de . June 16, 2018, accessed June 16, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Have a coffee with Poulsen. In: bild.de . June 25, 2016, accessed December 12, 2018 .
  12. ↑ RB striker Poulsen became a father for the first time! In: tag24. September 21, 2019, accessed September 22, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Yussuf Poulsen - the German Dane , kristinavomdorf.com, accessed on May 25, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Poulsen, Yussuf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poulsen, Yussuf Yurary (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark