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Dean Donny Huijsen Wijsmuller (born 14 April 2005) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club AFC Bournemouth. Born in the Netherlands, he is an under-21 youth international for Spain.
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Huijsen with AFC Bournemouth in 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Dean Donny Huijse Wijsmuller[1] | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 14 April 2005[2] | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)[2] | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Centre-back | |||||||||||||
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Current team | AFC Bournemouth | |||||||||||||
| Number | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2015 | Costa Unida CF | |||||||||||||
| 2015–2021 | Málaga | |||||||||||||
| 2021–2023 | Juventus | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 2023 | Juventus Next Gen | 23 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | Juventus | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2024 | → Roma (loan) | 13 | (2) | |||||||||||
| 2024– | AFC Bournemouth | 18 | (2) | |||||||||||
| International career‡ | ||||||||||||||
| –2021 | Netherlands U16 | |||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Netherlands U17 | 11 | (2) | |||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Netherlands U18 | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | Netherlands U19 | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2024– | Spain U21 | 7 | (1) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:47, 6 February 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:04, 19 November 2024 (UTC) | ||||||||||||||
Coming through the youth system, Huijsen made his senior debut for Juventus's reserve team Juventus Next Gen in January 2023. He made his Serie A debut with first team in the following October. Following a loan spell at Roma, Huijsen signed for Premier League side Bournemouth in July 2024.
Having started playing with Costa Unida CF de Marbella, before joining Málaga's youth set-up in 2015, aged 10.[3][4] In 2021, Huijsen joined Juventus, after being contended by Real Madrid.[4] In his first season, he played with the under-17 team, scoring seven goals.[5] In the following season, he advanced to U19 level; from August to November 2022, he scored six goals in 14 matches with the under-19s in all competitions.[6] He also featured in two first-team friendlies against Standard Liège and Rijeka in December of the same year.[7]
In early January 2023, Huijsen was promoted to Juventus Next Gen, the reserve team of Juventus.[8] He subsequently made his professional debut on 8 January 2023, starting in a 2–1 league loss against Pordenone.[9] He was booked at the seventh minute and scored with a 50th-minute header a goal which was disallowed for offside.[10]
On 15 February, Huijsen scored his first professional goals, netting a brace in the second leg of a Coppa Italia Serie C semi-final match against Foggia: the game ended in a 2–1 win for his side (3–3 on aggregate) after 90 minutes, as Juventus Next Gen eventually won the tie on penalties.[11][12][13] On 2 April, he also scored his first goal in Serie C in Juventus Next Gen–Feralpisalò 1–3, through a tap-in after Nikola Sekulov's shot.[14]
In June 2023, Huijsen renewed his contract with Juventus until 2027, having collected 40 official appearances and scored ten goals among Juventus U19 and Next Gen throughout the 2022–23 season.[7][15] On 22 October, he made his Serie A debut, coming off the bench in the 78th minute to substitute Federico Gatti, in a 1–0 away win over AC Milan.[16] On 7 November, Juventus announced that Huijsen, alongside his Next Gen teammate Kenan Yıldız, had been promoted to the first team.[17]
Huijsen was loaned to fellow Italian side Roma until the end of the 2023–24 season on 6 January 2024,[18] after rejecting Frosinone's interest.[19] He made his debut with the Giallorossi the following day, playing the entire second half in a home league draw against Atalanta.[20]
Huijsen scored his first Serie A goal on 5 February, sealing Roma's 4–0 win against Cagliari.[21] On the 18th of the same month, he scored the opener of an away match against Frosinone (whom Huijsen had refused prior to going to Roma)[22] after carrying the ball from the defense, overtaking a few opponents and shooting from outside the area.[23] Huijsen had been whistled by the opposing fans and celebrated in a provocative manner towards them; so much so that he was immediately yellow-carded by the referee and substituted by head coach Daniele De Rossi during the half-time break.[22]
On 30 July 2024, Huijsen was signed from Juventus by Premier League club AFC Bournemouth on a six-year deal, for an initial fee of €15.2 million, which could rise to €18.2 million.[24][25][26] On 5 December 2024, he scored his first goal for the club, scoring with a header in a 1–0 home win over Tottenham Hotspur.[27]
Huijsen has represented the Netherlands at various youth international levels, having played for the under-16, under-17 and under-18 national teams.[28]
In May 2022, Huijsen was included in the Dutch under-17 squad that took part in the UEFA European Under-17 Championship in Israel,[5][29] where he scored two penalties in the group stage matches against France and Poland,[30][31] as Oranje eventually finished as runners-up after losing to France itself in the final.[32]
On 15 March 2024, Huijsen was called up by the Spain national under-21 team to play the 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group B match against Belgium eleven days later.[33]
Huijsen was born in Amsterdam, North Holland.[3][34] His family relocated to Marbella, Andalusia, Spain when he was five years old and he became a Spanish citizen in February 2024.[3][4][34][35] He can speak Dutch, Spanish, Italian and English.[36]
Huijsen is the son of Mascha Wijsmuller and Donny Huijsen. Donny played for Jong Ajax and had a professional career in the Eredivisie and the Eerste Divisie.[5][37][38]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League cup[b] | Other | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Juventus Next Gen | 2022–23 | Serie C | 16 | 1 | — | — | 3[c] | 2 | 19 | 3 | ||
| 2023–24 | Serie C | 11 | 0 | — | — | — | 11 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 27 | 1 | — | — | 3 | 2 | 30 | 3 | ||||
| Juventus | 2023–24 | Serie A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||
| Roma (loan) | 2023–24 | Serie A | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | |
| AFC Bournemouth | 2024–25 | Premier League | 18 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 21 | 2 | |
| Career total | 59 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 66 | 7 | ||
Netherlands U17
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