🐣 This week’s rising star: Jacob Ambæk 🇩🇰

Every week, OneFootball introduces you to the new rising stars of world football. Today, we focus on the latest sensation in Nordic football, in Denmark. 

Haaland, Isak, Gyökeres, Biereth, Højlund... While some Nordic players on this list are currently going through a slightly tougher period, Scandinavia has nonetheless become a factory for top strikers and a major supplier of talent for the five major European leagues in recent years. 

The next one could be emerging in Denmark this season, at Brøndby. Jacob Ambæk is only 17 years old, and yet he is already establishing himself as a very promising striker.

Trained at his boyhood club, the Danish prodigy quickly climbed the ranks, scoring a ton of goals at each level. Last season, at just 16, he scored 31 goals in 22 matches with the U17s, and 14 goals in 21 matches with the U19s. 

These performances opened the doors of the first team to him at the end of the season, with the 1.85m striker coming on at the end of a Cup match last April.

And as things move very quickly with this kind of precocious talent, Ambæk signed his first professional contract a few weeks later, then scored his first professional goal in the Cup as well, last September, just four minutes after coming onto the pitch.

Since then, he has already established himself as a starter and continues to progress, with three goals scored in the league over the last six matches. Tall but technically skilled and effective one-on-one, he stands out for his speed and sense of positioning, making him a pure center-forward and absolutely formidable.

All of this makes Ambæk one of the most exciting and promising attacking prospects in Europe. While he still needs to confirm his talent over the season with his club, currently 3rd in the league, there is no doubt that we will be hearing his name linked with major European clubs in the months or years to come.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.

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