Mikkel Thygesen

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Personal information
Mikkel Thygesen
Date of birth	October 22, 1984 (age 22)
Place of birth	Copenhagen, Denmark
Height	1,84 m
Nickname	Thyge
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Number	7
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2002-2004 2004-2007 2007-present	BK Frem FC Midtjylland M'gladbach	45 (5) 77 (11) 0 (0)
National team²
2004 2004-2006 2006-present	Denmark U-20 Denmark U-21 Denmark	4 (1) 12 (2) 1 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of January 10, 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of November 15, 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Mikkel Thygesen (born 22 October 1984) is a Danish professional football midfielder who plays for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the German Bundesliga. He has played one match for the Danish national team. Thygesen plays the role as attacking midfielder, mostly in a central role, but also as a winger.

[edit] Biography

Thygesen started playing youth football with Greve IF and Brøndby IF, before getting his senior debut with Danish 1st Division club Boldklubben Frem in the 2002-03 season. He helped Frem win promotion for the Danish Superliga in the 2003-04 season, and was a part of Frem's starting line-up in the top-flight Danish championship. He played 30 of 33 matches, and scored five goals, but Frem were relegated at the end of the season.

He decided to stay in the Superliga, signing for FC Midtjylland (FCM) in the summer 2004. Here he quickly became a part of the starting line-up. Thygesen made his debut for the Danish under-21 national team in November 2004, when he replaced Sebastian Svárd in the second half of the 2006 European Under-21 Championship qualification match against the Georgia under-21s. He scored a goal in the game, which the Denmark under-21s won 4-2. In May 2006, he was selected for the Danish squad at the 2006 European Under-21 Championship main tournament.

Originally bought as a winger by FCM, Thygesen got his national breakthrough as a central midfielder, when he scored seven goals for the club in the first half of the 2006-07 season. On November 15, 2006 he got his debut for the senior Danish national team under national team manager Morten Olsen. Thygesen came on as a substitute for Christian Poulsen in the second half of a friendly match against the Czech Republic. Five days later, he was called up for the league national team, for the trip to the United States, El Salvador and Honduras in January 2007.

On January 9, 2007 he was sold to Borussia Mönchengladbach in the German Bundesliga. Rumours had initially sent him to Alemannia Aachen, but they were unwilling to pay the transfer fee demanded by FCM. He joined Mönchengladbach at their January training camp, which meant he had to drop the league national team tour.

On January 27 2007 he made his German Bundesliga debut against Energie Cottbus ^[1]