Zanka

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Zanka
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Zanka (2018)
Personnel
Surname Mathias Jattah-Njie Jørgensen
birthday April 23, 1990
place of birth Copenhagen ,  Denmark
size 191 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1994-2006 B. 93 Copenhagen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2007 B. 93 Copenhagen 10 (0)
2007–2012 FC Copenhagen 94 (6)
2012-2014 PSV Eindhoven 14 (2)
2013-2014 Jong PSV 7 (1)
2014-2017 FC Copenhagen 84 (4)
2017-2019 Huddersfield Town 62 (3)
2019– Fenerbahçe Istanbul 16 (2)
2020 →  Fortuna Düsseldorf  (loan) 9 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2006 Denmark U16 1 (0)
2006-2007 Denmark U17 3 (0)
2007 Denmark U18 1 (0)
2008–2012 Denmark U21 15 (1)
2008– Denmark 28 (2)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of November 18, 2019

Zanka (born April 23, 1990 in Copenhagen ), real name Mathias Jattah-Njie Jørgensen , is a Danish football player . The defender has been under contract with Fenerbahçe Istanbul since August 2019 and is a Danish international.

Career

society

Zanka, the son of a Dane and a Gambier , started playing football at B.93 Copenhagen at the age of four and went through all of the club's youth teams. At the end of 2006, at the age of 16, he made it into the first team of B.93.

In the summer of 2007 he moved to the Danish champions FC Copenhagen and made in September 2007 on the 11th match day of the Danish league against Lyngby BK as a substitute player, his first game in the professional field. On March 16, 2008 Zanka scored on the 19th match day in a 4-1 win in the away game against Lyngby BK with the goal to 3-1 his first goal in professional football. He came in the 2007/08 season to two appearances in the UEFA Cup , from which FC Copenhagen was eliminated after the group stage, and to 13 appearances and one goal in the league game. In the 2008/09 season Zanka won the double with the team and again the championship title in the 2009/10 and 2010/11 seasons. In the 2010/11 Champions League he was the first Danish team to reach the round of 16 with FC Copenhagen and was eliminated from Chelsea . In the 2011/12 season , Zanka was eliminated with FC Copenhagen in the Champions League play-offs against Viktoria Plzen . After the eighth league matchday he fell out after knee surgery. On April 22, 2012 Zanka made his comeback in a 2-1 win on matchday 27 in the game against AC Horsens . He finished second in the table with FC Copenhagen at the end of the season and won the cup.

In the summer of 2012, Zanka moved to the Dutch Eredivisie for PSV Eindhoven . On August 18, 2012 he made his debut for PSV in a 5-0 win on matchday two against Roda JC Kerkrade . He came to one use each in the KNVB Beker and in the Europa League . In the Eredivisie he came to only five missions. PSV Eindhoven were runner-up at the end of the season and had lost the cup final. Furthermore, Zanka came to 16 missions for the reserve team. In the 2013/14 season he came to the professional team in the Europa League and in the league for a total of 13 missions. In the Europa League, the PSV were eliminated after the group stage and in the league, the club finished fourth.

Zanka returned to FC Copenhagen for the 2014/15 season. He was eliminated with the team in the play-offs of the Champions League against Bayer 04 Leverkusen , where he scored one goal in the first leg. He made five appearances in the UEFA Europa League and was eliminated after the group stage . In the league, Zanka came to 29 missions and one goal; At the end of the season, FC Copenhagen was runner-up and Danish cup winner. In the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons, he again won the championship and cup double with FC Copenhagen.

In July 2017, Zanka moved to the Premier League for newly promoted Huddersfield Town and signed a contract that runs until 2020. On August 12, 2017, he made his debut in a 3-0 win in the away game against Crystal Palace FC and prepared the goal to make it 1-0.

After relegation in 2019 with Huddersfield Town to the second division ( Football League Championship ), he moved to the Turkish first division club Fenerbahçe Istanbul in August 2019 at the age of 29 . For the Turks, the Dane was on the field in 16 of 17 first round games and scored two goals.

At the end of January 2020, the defender moved to Fortuna Düsseldorf on loan in the German Bundesliga until the end of the season .

National team

Zanka played for Danish junior national teams until the U21. On November 19, 2008 he made his debut for the senior team in the 1-0 loss to Wales . He came on in the 60th minute for Per Krøldrup . On May 14, 2018, Zanka was nominated by coach Åge Hareide in the preliminary squad of the Danish senior team for the 2018 World Cup in Russia . In the round of 16 he scored his first international goal with the goal to make it 1-0 in the first minute of the game against Croatia. The team later retired on penalties. In autumn 2019 Zanka was able to qualify with the team for the EM 2021 .

successes

Web links

Commons : Zanka  - collection of images
  • Zanka in the database of the Dansk Boldspil-Union (Danish)
  • Zanka in the database of weltfussball.de
  • Zanka in the soccerway.com database
  • Zanka in the database of AltOmFotball.no (Norwegian)
  • Zanka in the database of mackolik.com (Turkish)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fenerbahçe SK announces the engagement of Mathias 'Zanka' Jattah-Njie Jorgensen (Turkish) on August 10, 2019 (accessed on August 25, 2019)
  2. ^ Zanka in the UEFA .com database . Retrieved September 29, 2019.
  3. ↑ Performance data for the 2011/12 season on transfermarkt.de
  4. ^ Mathias Zanka sold to Huddersfield Town FC | FC København. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Transfer: Mathias Jørgensen joins Town on htafc.com (English)
  6. ↑ Fortuna borrows Zanka , f95.de, accessed on January 31, 2020.
  7. ↑ a b c Zanka in the database of EU-Football.info (English). Retrieved September 29, 2019.
  8. ↑ Zohore, Skov and Mathias J. i VM gross troops. Retrieved May 14, 2018 (Danish).
personal data
SURNAME Zanka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jørgensen, Mathias Jattah-Njie (real name); Jørgensen, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen