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Lasse Schöne

Lasse Schöne
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Schöne training with Denmark in 2014
Personal information
Full name Lasse Schöne
Date of birth (1986-05-27) 27 May 1986 (age 30)
Place of birth Glostrup, Denmark
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
Ajax
Number 20
Youth career
Lyngby
2002–2006 Heerenveen
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2008 De Graafschap 70 (12)
2008–2012 NEC 107 (24)
2012– Ajax 137 (33)
National team
2001 Denmark U16 3 (1)
2002–2003 Denmark U17 6 (0)
2003–2004 Denmark U18 4 (1)
2007–2008 Denmark U21 9 (1)
2009– Denmark 28 (3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 April 2017.
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 26 March 2017

Lasse Schöne (born 27 May 1986) is a Danish professional footballer. He plays for Eredivisie club Ajax and the Denmark national team as a midfielder or winger.

He has spent his entire professional career in the Netherlands, with De Graafschap, NEC and Ajax, scoring over 60 league goals.

Schöne scored on his full international debut in 2009 and was part of the Danish squad at UEFA Euro 2012.

Born in Glostrup, Schöne started playing youth football with Himmelev-Veddelev BK and moved on to B70 and then Lyngby. In 2002, he moved to the youth team of Eredivisie club Heerenveen. He spent four years with the team without playing any league games, and moved to Eerste Divisie club De Graafschap in 2006. In his first season, he helped De Graafschap win promotion to the Eredivisie. In his two seasons with De Graafschap, he scored 12 goals in 70 games for the club.

Schöne signed on with NEC in the summer of 2008. He scored the winning goal for NEC away at Spartak Moscow in December 2008, which sent the team through to next round of the UEFA Cup. The club and the fans picked him as NEC's player of the year, a title he also won at his previous club Graafschap.

On 18 April 2012, Schöne signed on with Ajax until 2015. Schöne joined the ranks of a number of Danish players to play for Ajax, including Michael Laudrup who had been a role model for him throughout his career. The club and the fans picked him as the player of the year in 2014. On March 2, 2015 he signed a new contract until summer 2017. On February 22, 2017 he signed a new contract until summer 2019.


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