Mads Albæk

Mads Albæk (born 14 January 1990) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for SønderjyskE. He has also represented the Danish national under-21 team.

Mads Albæk
Albæk with 1. FC Kaiserslautern in July 2018
Personal information
Full name Mads Winther Albæk
Date of birth (1990-01-14) 14 January 1990
Place of birth Roskilde, Denmark
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Central midfielder
Club information
Current team
 SønderjyskE
Number 90
Youth career
Hvalsø
1996–2001 Gadstrup
2001–2004 Herfølge
2004–2008 Midtjylland
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2013 Midtjylland 120 (12)
2013–2015 Reims 39 (2)
2015–2017 IFK Göteborg 48 (9)
2017–2019 1. FC Kaiserslautern 29 (1)
2019– SønderjyskE 25 (2)
National team
2006–2007 Denmark U17 10 (0)
2007–2009 Denmark U19 14 (2)
2009–2012 Denmark U21 26 (5)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11:16, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Youth career

Born in Roskilde, Albæk began his footballing career started in the small Zealandic club, Gadstrup IF. At the age of 11, he moved to play for Herfølge Boldklub. When playing for Herfølge's youth team, Albæk was on trial at SC Heerenveen from the Netherlands, and later on, he was tested by Tottenham Hotspur from England. His talent was discovered by the Danish Superliga club FC Midtjylland, who brought Albæk through the ranks of their youth academy.

Club career

FC Midtjylland

Albæk signed his first professional contract in January 2008, and was permanently promoted in the first team squad.[1] However, he continued playing games for the U19 squad, while training with the first team. In the summer 2008, Albæk suffered from a twist in the knee and that resulted in an operation.[2] Due to the injury, he debuted in February 2009 in a match against Esbjerg fB where he played the whole match.[3] Albæk extended his contract in March 2010 until the summer 2014.[4] He played 28 league matches in this season despite his young age.

Having established himself as a starter in the Midtjylland line-up, and he revealed in January 2013, that he would like to leave the club and take the step up.[5] However, he wasn't sold in this transfer windows. Albæk was named as the player of the year 2012/13.[6] With one year left of his contract, he left the club in the summer windows 2013.

Reims

Albæk had several interested club, but decided to join French side Stade de Reims in the summer of 2013.

He got his debut for the club on 17 August 2013.[7] Albæk played the whole match and scored a goal in the 7th minute, helping his team win 2–1 against Lille. However, besides his good first match, the rest of the season wasn't so good. He didn't fit in and did only score two goals in 27 league matches.

Albæk suffered from a stomach injury October 2014, that resulted in an operation in December that held him out for some months.[8] He went back from this injury in April 2015.

IFK Göteborg

In August 2015, Albæk signed a two year-contract with Swedish team IFK Göteborg.[9] He played his first match for the club only 5 days later against BK Häcken.

According to a Swedish media, IFK Göteborg rejected a bid from MLS-club Toronto FC for Albæk in January 2017.[10]

International career

Albæk has played for various national youth sides, and he was rewarded with the Arla U17 youth prize.

Honours

SønderjyskE

References
  1. Stortalent i FC Midtjylland til 2012‚ bold.dk, 18 January 2008
  2. FCM-talent klar til comeback, bold.dk, 26 September 2008
  3. Albæk og Sabanovic debuterer‚ bold.dk, 28 February 2009
  4. Ambitiøse Albæk forlænger med FCM‚ bold.dk, 27 March 2010
  5. Albæk vil gerne sælges‚ bold.dk, 23 January 2013
  6. Klubtopscorer årets spiller i FCM, bold.dk, 24 May 2013
  7. "REIMS VS. LILLE 2 - 1". soccerway.com. 17 August 2013.
  8. Ligue 1-dansker skal opereres, bold.dk, 2 December 2014
  9. Offcielt: Albæk til IFK Göteborg, bold.dk, 11 August 2015
  10. Medie: IFK afviste millionbud på Albæk, bold.dk, 21 February 2017
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