Mads Bech Sørensen

Mads Bech Sørensen
Personal information
Full name Mads Bech Sørensen[1]
Date of birth (1999-01-07) 7 January 1999
Place of birth Denmark
Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)[2]
Playing position Defender, left midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Brentford
Number 34
Youth career
0000–2011 Østbirk IF
2011–2015 AC Horsens
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2017 AC Horsens 20 (1)
2017– Brentford 0 (0)
National team‡
2016–2017 Denmark U18 7 (1)
2017– Denmark U19 12 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:36, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 16:25, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Mads Bech Sørensen (born 7 January 1999 in Denmark), sometimes known as Mads Bech,[3] is a Danish professional footballer, who plays as a defender for Brentford. He began his career in his native Denmark with AC Horsens and is a current Denmark U19 international.

Club career

AC Horsens

A defender,[4] Sørensen began his youth career with Østbirk IF, before transferring to the academy at AC Horsens in 2011.[5] After progressing through the youth ranks, he won his maiden call into the first team squad for a 1. division match versus HB Køge on 3 May 2015.[6] At age 16 years, three months and 26 days, Sørensen became Horsens' youngest-ever player when he started in the 1–1 draw and he remained on the pitch until being substituted for Malthe Boesen (the player who had previously held the record) after 75 minutes.[7] He made five further appearances during the remainder of the 2014–15 season and signed a new two-year contract on 9 June 2015.[6][8]

Over the course of the 2015–16 and 2016–17 seasons, Sørensen continued to make a handful of appearances a season, mostly as a substitute, even after Horsens' promotion to the Superliga in 2016.[6] After signing a new three-year contract in May 2016, Sørensen made 10 appearances during the 2016–17 season and scored his first senior goal with a consolation in a 3–1 DBU Pokalen last-16 defeat to AGF Aarhus on 15 March 2017.[9] Sørensen appeared in Horsens' opening three matches of the 2017–18 season and scoring the first league goal of his career in a 4–1 victory over Lyngby on 23 July 2017.[6] Despite that excellent start to the season, he departed the club on 31 July,[4] just two days after his final appearance for the club.[6] In just over two years as a first team player at the CASA Arena, Sørensen made 25 appearances and scored two goals.[6] While a Horsens player, he filled the roles of left back, centre back and left midfield.[4]

Brentford

On 31 July 2017, Sørensen moved to England to join the B team at Championship club Brentford on a four-year contract for an undisclosed fee.[4] Injuries to first team central defenders John Egan, Andreas Bjelland and Chris Mepham saw Sørensen feature as an unused substitute on five occasions during the 2017–18 season and he was promoted into the first team squad during the 2018 off-season.[6][10] He made his debut for the club with a start in an EFL Cup first round match versus Southend United on 14 August 2018, but was substituted with a knee injury after half an hour of the 4–2 victory.[10]

International career

Sørensen won his maiden call into the Denmark U18 squad in September 2016 and made 7 appearances during the 2016–17 season,[11] captaining the team and scoring once in a 4–2 friendly victory over Belarus U18 on 18 October.[12] He was promoted into the U19 squad in January 2017 and made two appearances during the remainder of the 2016–17 season.[13] In mid-August 2017, Sørensen was named as captain of the Denmark U19 squad for the 2017 Four Nations Tournament,[14] in which he made two appearances.[13]

Career statistics

As of match played 1 September 2018
Club statistics
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
AC Horsens 2014–15[6] 1. division 6 0 0 0 — — 6 0
2015–16[6] 5 0 1 0 — — 6 0
2016–17[6] Danish Superliga 6 0 3 1 — 1[lower-alpha 1] 0 10 1
2017–18[15] 3 1 — — — 3 1
Total 20 1 4 1 — 1 0 25 2
Brentford 2017–18[15] Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0
2018–19[16] 0 0 0 0 1 0 — 1 0
Total 0 0 0 0 1 0 — 1 0
Career total 20 1 4 1 1 0 1 0 26 2
  1. ↑ Appearance in Danish Superliga relegation play-offs.

References

  1. ↑ "Club list of registered players: As at 19th May 2018: Brentford" (PDF). English Football League. p. 8. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "Mads Bech Sørensen – Defender – Brentford B – Brentford FC". www.brentfordfc.com. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "Landsholdsdatabasen spiller information". www.dbu.dk. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Brentford FC Mads Bech Sørensen joins Brentford B". Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "AC Horsens sælger Mads Bech til Brentford F.C." www.achorsens.dk. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Denmark – M. Sørensen – Profile with news, career statistics and history – Soccerway". nr.soccerway.com. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  7. ↑ "Mads Bech: Tilfreds med min debut". www.achorsens.dk. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  8. ↑ "AC Horsens skriver med rekorddebutant". bold.dk. 9 June 2015.
  9. ↑ "Mads Bech Sørensen forlænger kontrakten for 3 år". achorsens.dk. 28 May 2016.
  10. 1 2 "Mads and Marcus promoted to First Team". Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  11. ↑ "Landsholdsdatabasen spiller information". www.dbu.dk. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  12. ↑ "Danish defender watched again". ClubCall.com. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  13. 1 2 "Landsholdsdatabasen spiller information". www.dbu.dk. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  14. ↑ "Brentford FC Mads Bech Sorensen captains Denmark to victory". Retrieved 31 August 2017.
  15. 1 2 "Games played by Mads Bech Sørensen in 2017/2018". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  16. ↑ "Games played by Mads Bech Sørensen in 2018/2019". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
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