Name Mathias Jorgensen Playing position Role Footballer | Number 25 Height 1.91 m 1994–2007 B.93 Weight 79 kg | |
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Full name Mathias Jattah-Njie Jorgensen Date of birth (1990-04-23) 23 April 1990 (age 25) Current teams Denmark national football team (Defender), F.C. Copenhagen (#25 / Defender) Similar People Nicolai Jorgensen, Thomas Delaney, Andreas Cornelius Profiles | ||
Place of birth Copenhagen, Denmark | ||
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Mathias "Zanka" Jattah-Njie Jørgensen (born 23 April 1990) is a Danish footballer who plays as a centre back and is the captain for the Danish Superliga club F.C. Copenhagen.
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FC Copenhagen
Born to a Danish mother and a Gambian father, Jørgensen moved to FC Copenhagen from neighbouring club B.93, where he had played in first team matches even at the young age of 16. He signed a three-year contract with FCK on 26 June 2007. Before signing with the Danish champions, he had visited Arsenal for a one-week trial.
On 21 July 2007, Jørgensen strained the inner ligament in the left knee in a reserve team match – less than a month after he moved to the club. On 9 September, he played again for the reserve team. His first team debut came on 26 September 2007 in a cup match against FC Fredericia. He substituted Oscar Wendt 5 minutes before full-time, in the match FCK won 3–1. Three days later he got his Superliga debut, this time replacing Hjalte Nørregaard about 15 minutes before full-time.
Only 8 days after his first team debut, Zanka was thrown on pitch in the extra time of the UEFA Cup first round second leg at Parken Stadium against RC Lens, after captain Michael Gravgaard had received a red card. He was substituted for Marcus Allbäck and played in the central defence together with Brede Hangeland, and they prevented any more goals for Lens, when they were 10 against 11.
On 19 November 2008, he made his debut for the Danish national football team in a friendly against Wales.
After Roland Nilsson became manager for Copenhagen he became captain for "The Lions". 22 February 2012 it was announced that Jørgensen would join Dutch club PSV Eindhoven on a free transfer during the summer transfer window.
PSV
Zanka was featured in an unofficial pre-season tournament, The Polish Masters, in July 2012 and scored his first goal for PSV in their game against S.L. Benfica on 22 July. However, he struggled to break into PSV's first XI and only played 14 matches for the club over the course of two years.
Return to Copenhagen
On 7 July 2014, Zanka returned to his former team FC Copenhagen for a fee of around 600,000 Euros.
Personal life
Zanka is dating Hungarian model Enikő Mihalik.
Nickname
He received his nickname from the movie Cool Runnings, where one of the main characters is named Sanka (played by Doug E. Doug).