Pierre-Emile Højbjerg

Pierre-Emile Højbjerg

Højbjerg after winning the 2014 DFB-Pokal Final with Bayern Munich
Personal information
Full name Pierre-Emile Kordt Højbjerg[1]
Date of birth (1995-08-05) 5 August 1995
Place of birth Copenhagen, Denmark
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Southampton
Number 23
Youth career
2003–2007 BK Skjold
2007–2009 F.C. Copenhagen
2009–2012 Brøndby IF
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2014 Bayern Munich II 44 (12)
2013–2016 Bayern Munich 17 (0)
2015 → FC Augsburg (loan) 16 (2)
2015–2016 → Schalke 04 (loan) 23 (0)
2016– Southampton 10 (0)
National team‡
2010–2011 Denmark U16 6 (0)
2011–2012 Denmark U17 18 (5)
2012–2013 Denmark U19 6 (3)
2013– Denmark U21 8 (4)
2014– Denmark 17 (1)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10:07, 20 November 2016 (UTC).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 7 June 2016

Pierre-Emile Kordt Højbjerg (Danish pronunciation: [hɔɪ̯'b̻jæɐ̯ˀ], sometimes spelled Höjbjerg in Germany; born 5 August 1995) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Southampton.[2][3]

With his former club Bayern Munich, he won a variety of domestic and international tournaments. Formerly a youth international at various levels from under-16 to under-21, he made his debut for the Denmark national football team in 2014.

Club career

Early career

While initially playing in BK Skjold and F.C. Copenhagen he moved to Brøndby IF as a junior player at age 14.[4] He looks upon Zinedine Zidane as his role model.[5] Starting from his debut, Højbjerg plays as a central midfielder and sometimes right wide midfielder.

In 2011, Højbjerg was honoured with the title "Danish under-17 player of the year".[6] In 2013, he was honoured with the title "Danish talent of the year" by Spillerforeningen (the Danish equivalent of the English PFA).[7]

Bayern Munich

Højbjerg joined Bayern in July 2012[8] and, at the age of 17 years and 251 days,[9] made his professional debut on 13 April 2013[9] in the Bundesliga against 1. FC Nürnberg,[10] as a substitute for Xherdan Shaqiri[10] and thus became the youngest player ever to play for the Bayern Munich first team in the Bundesliga.[9] He finished the 2012–13 season with no goals in two matches played for the first team and eight goals in 30 matches played for the reserve team.[11]

In December of that year, he was in the Bayern squad which won the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup in Morocco, although he did not enter the field of play during the tournament.[12][13]

On 17 May 2014, Højbjerg started the DFB-Pokal final for Bayern Munich, a 2–0 extra-time win over Borussia Dortmund. He played for a total of 102 minutes before being substituted in the first half of extra time for Daniel Van Buyten.[14] He finished the 2013–14 season with seven Bundesliga appearances and two German Cup appearances for the first team and four goals from 14 appearances for the reserve team.[15]

His first match of the 2014–15 season was the DFL-Supercup on 13 August, playing the first hour and then being substituted for Mario Götze, as Bayern lost 2–0 at Borussia Dortmund.[16] On 8 January 2015, Bayern extended Højbjerg's contract to 2018.[17] He finished the 2014–15 season with no goals from eight Bundesliga appearances, one German Cup appearance, and three Champions League appearances.[18]

On 7 January 2015, Højbjerg was loaned to FC Augsburg, also of the Bundesliga, for the remainder of the 2014–15 season.[19][20] He made his debut on 1 February 2015 against 1899 Hoffenheim.[21] Højbjerg scored his first Bundesliga goal on 11 April against SC Paderborn 07 in a 2–1 loss. On 9 May, he assisted Raúl Bobadilla for the only goal as Augsburg won away at Bayern, who had already won the league by that point.[22] He finished his loan spell with two goals from 16 Bundesliga appearances.[18]

On 28 August 2015, Højbjerg joined fellow Bundesliga side Schalke 04 on a season-long loan.[23]

Southampton

On 11 July 2016, Højbjerg joined English club Southampton on a five-year deal[24] for an estimated fee of £12.8 million.[3]

International career

Højbjerg was called up to the Denmark senior side for the first time in May 2014 for the friendlies against Hungary and Sweden and made his debut against Sweden on 28 May, playing the full 90 minutes.[25] On his third cap on 7 September 2014 he scored his first international goal, equalising as Denmark began their UEFA Euro 2016 qualification campaign with a 2–1 win over Armenia in Copenhagen.[26]

Personal life

In April 2014, Højbjerg lost his father to stomach cancer at the age of 18.[27]

Career statistics

Club statistics

As of 20 November 2016.
ClubSeasonLeagueCup1League Cup2Continental3Other4TotalRef.
LeagueAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Bayern Munich II2012–13Regionalliga Bayern308——308[11]
2013–1414400144[15]
Totals4412—004412—
Bayern Munich2012–13Bundesliga2000—000020[11]
2013–147020000090[15]
2014–1580103010130[18]
2015–160010000010[18]
Totals17040—3010250—
Augsburg (loan)2014–15Bundesliga16200———162[18]
Schalke (loan)2015–162301060300[18]
Southampton2016–17Premier League100200400160[18]
Career totals1101470001301013114—

International statistics

Statistics accurate as of 29 March 2016.[28]

Denmark national team
YearAppsGoals
201451
201580
201620
Total 15 1

International goals

Score and result list Denmark's goal tally first.

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Source
1. 7 September 2014 Parken, Copenhagen, Denmark  Armenia 1–1 2–1UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying [29]

Honours

Club

Bayern Munich[30]

Personal

References

  1. ↑ "FIFA Club World Cup Morocco 2013: List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. 7 December 2013. p. 5. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  2. ↑ "Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg wechselt nach Southampton". FC Bayern Munich (in German). 11 July 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg: Southampton sign Bayern Munich midfielder". BBC Sport. 11 July 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Pierre Højbjerg". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  5. ↑ "Bayerns Supertalent: Zidane ist sein Vorbild" [Bayern's super talent: Zidane is his role model] (in German). fussball-vorort.de. 17 October 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  6. 1 2 "DBU's Talentpris" (in Danish). DBU. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  7. 1 2 "Pierre-Emile Højbjerg vinder prisen som Årets Talent" (in Danish). Spillerforeningen. 1 December 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  8. ↑ "Augsburg leiht Højbjerg aus" (in German). Süddeutsche Zeitung. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  9. 1 2 3 "Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg: Das ist Augsburgs Neuzugang". Augsburger Allgemeine. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  10. 1 2 "FC Bayern demontiert schwachen Club" (in German). kicker. 13 April 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  11. 1 2 3 "Pierre-Emile Höjbjerg" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  12. ↑ "Guangzhou Evergrande FC – FC Bayern München". FIFA. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  13. ↑ "Bayern Munich 2–0 Raja Casablanca". BBC Sport. 21 December 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  14. ↑ "Robben bestraft BVB-Fehler in der Verlängerung [Robben punishes BVB's mistake in extra time]". kicker. 17 May 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
  15. 1 2 3 "Pierre-Emile Höjbjerg" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  16. ↑ kicker (13 August 2014). "Aubameyang köpft BVB zum Supercup-Sieg" (in German). Retrieved 21 August 2014.
  17. ↑ "Hojbjerg-Leihe bestätigt - Vertrag verlängert!" (in German). Abendzeitung. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Pierre-Emile Højbjerg » Club matches". World Football. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  19. ↑ Zitouni, Mounir (7 January 2015). "Höjbjerg: Ausleihe zu Augsburg perfekt" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  20. ↑ Bernreuther, David (8 January 2015). "Höjbjerg steigt am Freitag ein" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  21. ↑ "Højbjerg glänzt, di Santo zaubert" (in German). Süddeutsche Zeitung. 1 February 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  22. ↑ "Bayern Mun 0-1 FC Augsburg". BBC Sport. 9 May 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  23. ↑ "Hojbjerg joins Schalke on loan from Bayern". Goal.com. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  24. ↑ "Saints complete Højbjerg signing". Southampton FC. 11 July 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  25. ↑ "Morten O. storroser Højbjerg efter debut [Morten O. commend Højbjerg after his dubut]". Bold.dk. 28 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  26. ↑ Vinde, Nicklas (7 September 2014). "Denmark dig deep to down Armenia". UEFA. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  27. ↑ "Hojbjerg: I won't let Pep down". FC Bayern.DE. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  28. ↑ "Debut to Pierre-Emile Höjbjerg" (in Danish). dbu.dk. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  29. ↑ "Denmark vs. Armenia". ESPN FC. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
  30. ↑ "P. Højbjerg". Soccerway. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  31. ↑ "Dansk Fodbold Award". DBU (in Danish). Retrieved 22 March 2016.
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