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Timothy Fosu-Mensah

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Timothy Evans Fosu-Mensah (born 2 January 1998 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a defender for Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Bundesliga from Germany.

Trajectory
He debuted as a professional on February 28, 2016 in Old Trafford, on the 27th of the Premier League, entered at minute 55 for a Red Mark injury, faced the Arsenal, which he defeated 3 to 2, with a double of his partner in young Marcus Rashford.

The next game, he was a headline, played 90 minutes against Watford and won 1 to 0.

National selection
Timothy has been part of the Netherlands selection in the youth categories sub-15, sub-16, sub-17, sub-19 and sub-21.

On October 11, 2014, he debuted in an official competition with the selection, faced Finland in the classification phase of the 2015 UEFA Sub17 European Championship and won 2 to 0. Then its rivals were Malta and Serbia, teams that defeated 1 to 0 in each game.

They classified as first of the group and on 12 March 2015 began the Elite Round, against Georgia, scored their first goal with the Netherlands, finally won 2 to 0. The remaining two rivals, were Northern Ireland and Belgium, selections with which they tied. They were second and ranked to the final phase, among the best second positions.

On May 7, they played the first game of the group phase of the final stage of the European Championship, their rival was Ireland, but they tied without goals. On May 10, they played against England, Timothy scored a goal against but finally tied 1 to 1. His last game was held on May 13, they faced Italy but again tied and remained in the third place of the group, so they did not rank octavos in the end and were eliminated.

Fosu-Mensah was the headline in each game and the captain of the selection, with dorsal number 3.

For the month of September, he was called to the sub-19 selection, despite giving a year of advantage. He played two friendly games, against Italy and Germany, in which they tied and lost respectively.

His next official participation took place on 7 October 2015, this time in the classification phase of the 2016 UEFA Sub19 European Championship, they measured to Gibraltar and won 9 to 0. Then they defeated Liechtenstein 2 to 0 and finally tied 1 to 1 with France, so they went to the next round, as seconds, due to the goals in favor.

He again played with the sub19 in the European Championship on March 24, 2016, faced Ukraine in the first match of the Elite Round and won 3-2. Then they defeated Northern Ireland by 1 to 0, finally tied without goals to Poland. The Netherlands classified the final phase by first ending with 7 points from its group.

Participation in lower categories

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Clubs
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