Leon Jessen

Leon Jessen in 2011

Leon Jessen ( born June 11, 1986 in Brande ) is a Danish football player. Since 2010 he is in Germany at the 1 FC Kaiserslautern under contract, he's since 2013 on loan at FC Ingolstadt.

Club career

The beginnings

Jessen began his career in the youth department of Brande IF and Ikast FS that. Since the merger between Ikast and Herning Fremad to FC Mitdtjylland representing the youth department

After he had already ascended as Ikast player at youth level for the Danish U-19 national team, he celebrated on May 23, 2004 game against Esbjerg fB his professional debut, in which he succeeded the decisive goal in a 2-1 home win.

FC Midtjylland

As of 2005, the versatile on the left wing Jessen had won a regular place in the first team of Midtjylland and had become a crowd favorite due to its battle- stressed way of playing.

In the season 2006/ 07 he made with the team for a minor sensation when you played along long time for the title in the SAS League and finished runners-up. The team that got along with almost no veterans, was indeed certified talent in advance of the season, but they had been more often considered in the middle of the league. Besides Jessen advanced in the wake players like Dennis Sørensen Mikkel Thygesen, Jesper Mikkelsen, Magnus Troest or Simon Poulsen of talent to top players in the league and attracted the interest of several major clubs in coming.

For 2007/ 08 the club most of its performers then lost to clubs in stronger European leagues, yielding was again classified more as an outsider for the title fight. Contrary to expectations, however, the team played again for the title with and repeated the performance of the previous year but with the times runner-up title. They had done it again, own youth players such as Simon Kjær to integrate into the team that could get strong performances right away. Jessen, now one of the arrivierteren players in the squad played a solid season before the twelfth season game he incurred a severe groin injury and failed for over a year.

Only in the spring of 2009 he made a comeback and even graduated from last season's eight games. His team ended at the end of the fourth.

In the season 2009/10, Jessen was again completely fit and was able to continue his strong performances of earlier days. In a newly formed defense around veteran Martin Albrechtsen he has since been almost entirely mobilized as a left-back.

1 FC Kaiserslautern

For the 2010/11 season Jessen moved abroad and signed with the German Bundesliga Up 1 FC Kaiserslautern, where he received a four-year contract. At the start of the season, he managed to jump into the starting lineup. From this it was but displaced in the course of the first round again from its competitors Alexander Bugera. In the second round however, he had held his place again, there he was in each of the 17 games used, 15 of which he played over the full 90 minutes. In addition, he was able to record his first assists in the Bundesliga in the last two home games against St. Pauli and Werder Bremen, in both games he managed one assist.

The first eight days game of the season 2011/12 was in the starting eleven Jessen of the Red Devils, before he had to leave for Bugera his place again. This denied the next eleven games from the beginning, Jessen came on only once on 12 Matchday 81 minutes for Bugera. In the second round he came on matchday 20 against Cologne on his first deployment when he came on in the 63rd minute for the injured Bugera. The next five games he played from the beginning and over the full duration. On February 18, 2012 in the 1-2 home defeat to Borussia Mönchengladbach he scored his first Bundesliga goal. The remarkable shot in the angle was nominated for goal of the month. In the rest of the season Jessen was no longer used. At the end of the season 2011/12 he went with FCK from the 2nd Bundesliga.

Loan to FC Ingolstadt 04

End of January 2013 Jessen was awarded to the end of the season 2012/13 to the league rivals FC Ingolstadt 04. His first game he made 28 matchday of the season. In total he completed in the second half of 2012/13 seven games for Ingolstadt. At season's end, the loan was extended until 2015. At the same time extended Jessen his contract with Kaiserslautern until 2016.

National

During his time in the youth team of Ikast FS he was drafted into the Danish U-19 national team. From 2006 he was a member of the tribe of the Danish U- 21 team before his serious injury forced him to pause. Overall, he completed between 2004 and 2008 15 youth internationals.

After his return he celebrated on 14 November 2009 in a friendly against South Korea made ​​his debut in the senior team. Four days later, he had his biggest rival for the position left in defense, Michael Lumb, let the match against the USA in Aarhus preference. For the friendly match against Austria on March 3, 2010, he was again appointed to the cadre of the senior team.

In addition to Michael Lumb, he is considered the greatest hope of the Danes to solve the traditional defense problem on the left wing.

Achievements

  • Danish runners-up: 2007, 2008 with FC Midtjylland
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