Djibril Sow

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Djibril Sow
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Sow playing for Eintracht Frankfurt in 2019
Personal information
Full name Mohameth Djibril Ibrahima Sow[1]
Date of birth (1997-02-06) 6 February 1997 (age 24)
Place of birth Zürich, Switzerland
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Eintracht Frankfurt
Number 8
Youth career
BC Albisrieden
0000–2015 Zürich
2015 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2015 Zürich II 20 (0)
2015–2017 Borussia Mönchengladbach II 32 (7)
2016–2017 Borussia Mönchengladbach 1 (0)
2017–2019 Young Boys 55 (4)
2019– Eintracht Frankfurt 57 (1)
National team‡
2013 Switzerland U16 4 (0)
2013–2014 Switzerland U17 14 (0)
2014–2016 Switzerland U19 15 (1)
2016 Switzerland U20 4 (2)
2016 Switzerland U21 6 (1)
2018– Switzerland 20 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23:27, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23:12, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Mohameth Djibril Ibrahima Sow (born 6 February 1997) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt and the Switzerland national team.[2]

Club career[]

Sow made his professional debut for Borussia Mönchengladbach on 25 October 2016, in the second round of the 2016–17 edition of the DFB-Pokal, against second-division club VfB Stuttgart. Sow was substituted on in the 88th minute for Lars Stindl. The match finished as a 2–0 home win for Gladbach.[3]

In June 2017, Sow returned to Switzerland, agreeing to a four-year contract with Young Boys. The transfer fee paid to Borussia Mönchengladbach was reported as €1.7 million.[4][5]

He was part of the Young Boys squad that won the 2017–18 Swiss Super League, their first league title for 32 years.[6]

On 27 June 2019, Sow signed to Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt a contract until 2024.[7]

International career[]

Born in Switzerland, Sow is of Senegalese and Swiss descent.[8] He earned his first appearance for the Switzerland national team on 8 September 2018, coming on as a substitute for Steven Zuber in a 6–0 win against Iceland in the UEFA Nations League.In May 2019, he played in 2019 UEFA Nations League Finals, where his team finished fourth. [9]In 2021 he was called up to the national team for the 2020 UEFA European Championship, where the team created one of the main sensations of the tournament reaching the quarter-finals. [10]

Personal life[]

Sow is the cousin of the female footballer Coumba Sow.[11]

Honours[]

Young Boys

References[]

  1. ^ "Djibril Sow". Bundesliga. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Djibril Sow". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Bor. Mönchengladbach - VfB Stuttgart 2:0 (DFB-Pokal 2016/2017, 2. Round)". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL. 25 October 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Sow verkauft, Quartett startet vorab". RP Online (in German). 26 June 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  5. ^ Trunz, Alex (26 June 2017). "Djibril Sow für vier Jahre zu YB". Der Bund (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  6. ^ "Soccer - Young Boys end 32-year wait for Swiss title and end Basel dominance". reuters.com. Reuters. 29 April 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Zweiter Neuzugang bei der Eintracht: Djibril Sow unterschreibt bis 2024". Retrieved 27 June 2019.
  8. ^ "Lyon s'intéresse au jeune Djibril Sow, d'origine sénégalaise" [Lyon takes an interest in young Djibril Sow, of Senegalese origin]. footempo.com (in French). Footempo. 2 April 2019. Archived from the original on 5 April 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  9. ^ "Pickford the hero in England shootout win". BBC Sport.
  10. ^ https://www.uefa.com / uefaeuro-2020 / match / 2024485 - switzerland-vs-spain / lineups /? iv = true
  11. ^ "YB Djibril und seine FCZ Cousine Coumba - Familie Sow mischt den Schweizer Fussball auf" [YB Djibril and his FCZ cousin Coumba - The Sow family mixes up Swiss football]. blick.ch (in German). Blick. 17 February 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2020.

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