Pierre-Emile Højbjerg

Pierre-Emile Højbjerg

Pierre-Emile Kordt Højbjerg is a Danish professional footballer. He plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. He is also a member of the Danish national team, having played at various levels from under-16 to under-21.

About Pierre-Emile Højbjerg in brief

Summary Pierre-Emile HøjbjergPierre-Emile Kordt Højbjerg is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and also the Denmark national team. He played as a youth for BK Skjold, F. C. Copenhagen and Brøndby IF before joining German club Bayern Munich in 2012. He made his professional debut for the first team in April 2013; at 17 he was the club’s youngest player in the Bundesliga. In 2016, he signed a five-year contract for Southampton for an estimated £12. 8 million fee. In 2020, he will move to Tottenham for a reported initial fee of £15 million. He has won a variety of domestic and international tournaments, also having loans at fellow league teams FC Augsburg and Schalke 04.

He looks upon Zinedine Zidane as his role model. He is also a member of the Danish national football team, having played at various levels from under-16 to under-21. He was part of the squad which won the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup in Morocco, although he did not enter the field of play during the tournament. He also played for the Danish Under-21 side in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers and the 2014 European Under-17 Championship qualifiers. He plays his football as a central midfielder and sometimes right wide midfielder. He started his career at Copenhagen before moving to F.C. Copenhagen as a junior player.