Andreas Cornelius

Andreas Cornelius ( January 2013)

Andreas Cornelius ( born March 16, 1993, Copenhagen ) is a Danish football player who is used mainly as a striker.

Career

Association

FC Copenhagen

Cornelius played for FC Copenhagen. For this club he played for the youth. In the summer of 2011 and during the winter break of the season 2011/12 he took part in Austria and La Manga training camp on the first team. On April 9, 2012, he made ​​his debut in professional football, as he was used on matchday 25 of the Superligæn against Aarhus GF. Eleven days later he came to his second and final time of the season 2011/12, when he appeared as a substitute on the 32nd game against FC Midtjylland. However, champion FC Nordsjælland. The following season, FCK failed to qualify for the Champions League. Since Copenhagen but thus started in the Europa League, thus Cornelius came in his first full season on the European Cup debut. This he was then on 20 September 2012, when he stood in the first Europa League group match against Molde FK in the starting line-up and in the 74th minute scored the 2-1 victory. Cornelius was awarded on October 7, 2012 for the player of the month the Danish Superliga. On April 15, 2013 Cornelius scored the decisive goal for the 3-2 win against FC Nordsjælland. Thus, the FC Copenhagen had 10 points distance to the 2nd place and they were champions.

Cardiff City

On June 27, 2013 it was announced that Cornelius moved to Cardiff City for a club record transfer fee, which amounts to 65 million Danish kroner. After only seven months, Cornelius was released back to Copenhagen, what Cardiff claims to total gave a loss of 8.5 million pounds. The blame for this was the club manager Malky Mackay the previously dismissed.

National

He was of Danish youth international and is now in the squad the Danish national football team for the World Cup qualifiers ..