Yussuf Poulsen

danish football player

Yussuf Yurary Poulsen ( danish pronunciation : [ ˈjusuf ˈpʰʌwlsn̩ ] ; born 15 June 1994 ) is a danish professional football player who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig and the Denmark national team. He sometimes uses Yurary as his shirt name. After starting his professional career with Lyngby, he transferred to RB Leipzig in 2013, helping them to consecutive promotions from the 3. Liga to the Bundesliga. He holds the RB Leipzig record for most appearances with over 250, and has scored over seventy goals for the club.

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Poulsen made his international introduction for Denmark in 2014 and has earned over sixty caps. He was separate of their squad at the 2018 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2020 .

early life [edit ]

Poulsen was born to a tanzanian father and a danish mother. [ 3 ] His father worked on a container ship, oscillating between Tanga and Denmark before he settled in Copenhagen. [ 4 ] He died of cancer when Poulsen was six years old .

Club career [edit ]

early career [edit ]

Poulsen began playing football at BK Skjold. At beginning he was a defensive actor and in Kenneth Zohore he had a teammate, with whom he was to play subsequently in the Danish youth home teams. After Zohoré joined FC Copenhagen, Poulsen was moved to a military position as a striker. [ 4 ]

Lyngby BK [edit ]

At the age of 14 he joined the young person ranks of Lyngby BK. He played his first match as a senior on 4 December 2011, when he came on the pitch against AC Horsens after 84 minutes, as a substitute for Mathias Tauber. Poulsen did not immediately establish himself in the starting football team, and he was at the end of the season merely on five appearances. His club, Lyngby were besides relegated from Superligaen. 5 August 2012 he scored his first goal at senior horizontal surface, a well as for his club, when he in the second peer in the 1. Division ( moment Danish league ) scored the 1-0 win goal against AB Gladsaxe. He was a regular player in the start 11, and played 32 matches, scoring football team goals. [ 5 ]

RB Leipzig [edit ]

Poulsen in carry through for Leipzig against Zenit in October 2019 His achievements attracted the pastime of foreign and domestic clubs, and on 3 July 2013, he signed a abridge with the newly promoted 3. Liga german side RB Leipzig. [ 4 ] [ 6 ] He finished the 2013–14 season with 10 goals in 27 appearances. [ 7 ] Poulsen earned promotion with Leipzig to the 2. Bundesliga in 2014 and the german top-flight Bundesliga in 2016. He had scored 12 goals in 32 appearances during the 2014–15 season [ 8 ] and seven goals in 32 appearances during the 2015–16 season. [ 9 ] In the one-sixth meet of the 2016–17 temper, he scored his first Bundesliga goal in a 2–1 victory at home against FC Augsburg. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] He finished the 2016–17 temper with five goals in 30 appearances. [ 11 ] He finished the 2017–18 season five goals in 41 appearances. [ 12 ] On 30 March 2019, during a 5–0 win over Hertha BSC, he became the first-ever Leipzig actor to score a hat-trick in the Bundesliga and in the action helped the club phonograph record its fiftieth ever win in the contest. His treble besides took him to 15 league goals for the political campaign which meant he became lone the third Danish actor, after Ebbe Sand and Allan Simonsen to score more than 14 Bundesliga goals in a single season. [ 13 ]

Poulsen became the beginning Leipzig player to 250 appearances on 24 May 2020, when he scored in a 5–0 acquire at 1. FSV Mainz 05. [ 14 ]

International career [edit ]

Poulsen was eligible to play for Tanzania but did not receive any offers from the tanzanian federation ; as a solution, he chose to represent his native Denmark. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] He made his introduction for the Danish national team on 30 January 2013 against Mexico. [ 17 ] On 13 June 2015, he scored his first base goal for his country, against Serbia in a 2–0 win. Poulsen was selected in Denmark ‘s squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics, however he rejected the call-up in regulate to cement his plaza at Leipzig. [ 18 ] In May 2018, he was named in Denmark ‘s 23-man police squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. [ 19 ] On 16 June, he scored the alone goal in Denmark ‘s open game against Peru, and was named valet of the match. Earlier in the game he conceded a punishment with a pollute on Christian Cueva, which the peruvian missed. [ 20 ] On 17 June 2021, Poulsen scored his foremost goal in the european Championship in a 2–1 frustration against Belgium in the UEFA Euro 2020. [ 21 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

As of match played 19 October 2021[5]

International [edit ]

As of match played 12 October 2021[22]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team
Year
Apps
Goals

Denmark

2014
3
0

2015
8
2

2016
7
1

2017
6
0

2018
12
2

2019
7
2

2020
7
0

2021
14
4

Total
64
11

As of match played 7 September 2021. Denmark score listed first, score column indicates score after each Poulsen goal.[23]