Mads Bech Sorensen

Mads Bech Sorensen (born 7 January 1999), sometimes known as Mads Bech, is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Premier League club Brentford. Sorensen began his career in his native Denmark with AC Horsens and has been capped by Denmark at youth level.

Club Career

AC Horsens

A defender, Sorensen began his youth career with Ostbirk IF as a juvenile, before transferring to the academy at AC Horsens in 2011. After progressing through the youth ranks, he won his maiden call into the first team squad for a 1. division match versus HB Koge on 3 May 2015. At age 16 years, three months and 26 days, Sorensen 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. He made five further appearances during the remainder of the 2014–15 season and signed a new two-year contract on 9 June 2015.

Over the course of the 2015–16 and 2016–17 seasons, Sorensen continued to make a handful of appearances a season, mostly as a substitute, even after Horsens' promotion to the Superliga in 2016. After signing a new three-year contract in May 2016, Sorensen 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. Sorensen 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. Despite that excellent start to the season, he departed the club on 31 July, just two days after his final appearance for the club. In just over two years as a first team player at the CASA Arena, Sorensen made 25 appearances and scored two goals. While a Horsens player, Sorensen filled the roles of left back, central defender, left midfield and emerged as a throw-in specialist, after receiving coaching from Thomas Gronnemark.

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