Mathias Kvistgaarden

Mathias Damm Kvistgaarden (Danish pronunciation: [ˈkʰve̝stkɒˀn̩]; born 15 April 2002) is a Danish professional football forward who plays for Danish Superliga club Brondby IF. He has represented Denmark at youth level.

Club Career

Brondby

Youth

Born in Birkerod, Kvistgaarden began his career at hometown club IF Skjold Birkerod. At age 11, he was noticed by scouts of FC Nordsjalland at a youth trial, while at the same time going on trial at Lyngby Boldklub; eventually choosing to move to the Lyngby youth academy in 2013. Two years later, he joined the youth academy of Brondby IF at U13-level, partly due to the Kvistgaarden family's close relationship to former head coach of Brondby, Thomas Frank. At the same time, he enrolled as a pupil at Brondbyvester Skole located less than one kilometre from the club, with his main course being physical education. He described the environment in the youth squads as being very competitive compared to his former experiences in IF Skjold and Lyngby, and the Brondby U13-team ended up in first place of the table of their respective youth league that year. Kvistgaarden was promoted to the U19-team in the summer of 2019, and scored nine goals in 14 appearances in their campaign in the under-19 league.

First team

Kvistgaarden was included in the first-team squad for the first time on 5 July 2020, ahead of an away match in the Danish Superliga against AaB, due to regular first team strikers Simon Hedlund and Samuel Mraz having been tested positive for COVID-19. During the match, which Brondby lost 0–2, Kvistgaarden made his debut as a 73rd-minute substitute for Mikael Uhre.

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