- Søren Andersen
Football player infobox
playername= Søren Andersen
fullname = Søren Andersen
height = 5' 11" / 1.81 m
dateofbirth = Birth date and age|1970|1|31|mf=y
cityofbirth =Aarhus
countryofbirth =Denmark
currentclub =
clubnumber =
position = Forward
youthyears = 1984-1988
youthclubs =Silkeborg IF
years = 1988-1989
1989-1991
1991-1993
1993
1993-1994
1994-1995
1995
1995-1998
1998-1999
1999-2001
2001-2003
1988-2003
clubs =Silkeborg IF
Aarhus GF
Vejle
Aarhus GFUE Lleida Rayo Vallecano IFK Norrkoping
Aalborg BK
Bristol CityOdense BK
Aarhus GF
Total
caps(goals) = 0 (0)
20 (10)
59 (22)
12 (11)
22 (2)
10 (1)
10 (4)
67 (30)
39 (10)
57 (25)
15 (6)
311 (121)
nationalyears = 1990-1992
1993-2000
nationalteam = Denmark U-21
Denmark
nationalcaps(goals) = 7 (0)
12 (0)
pcupdate =
ntupdate =Søren Andersen (born
January 31 ,1970 ) is a Danish former professional footballer. He played as astriker , and most prominently represented English club Bristol City, Spanish clubRayo Vallecano , as well as several Danish clubs. He played 12 games for the Denmark national team, though he did not score, and represented Denmark at the 1996 European Championship.Biography
Andersen began his career as a junior with
Silkeborg IF , joining Aarhus GF in August 1989. He made his debut for the Danish under-21 national team in April 1990. He won the 1992Danish Cup with Aarhus GF, and was included in the Danish under-21 squad for the1992 Summer Olympics by coach Viggo Jensen. He played a single match at the tournament; his seventh and last games for the under-21 national team. He made his debut for the senior Danish national team in January 1993, under national coachRichard Møller Nielsen .Having scored 33 goals in 71 league games for Aarhus, Andersen moved abroad in October 1993. He went on to play for Spanish club
UE Lleida in theLa Liga championship. He played a single season at Lleida, where he scored the winning goal in a 2-1 win against multiple Spanish championsReal Madrid . When Lleida wererelegated to theSegunda División at the end of the season, Andersen moved to league rivalsRayo Vallecano . He played 12 games for Rayo, scoring a single goal.In January 1995, Andersen moved to Swedish club
IFK Norrkoping , before going back to Denmark. He went on to play for defending Danish championsAalborg Boldspilklub (AaB) in August 1995. At Aalborg, he was poised to replace strikerErik Bo Andersen who had been sold toRangers FC . Søren Andersen became an instant success, and was called up for the Danish squad at the 1996 European Championship, where he played a single match. He was AaB's lead goalscorer in the 1996-97 season with 14 goals, the fifth highest tally of the league. He scored a total of 36 goals in 77 games for AaB, including five goals in a single game againstViborg FF .In July 1998, he moved to
England , joining Bristol City in the First Division for a fee of £425,000. He scored both City goals on his debut, a 2-2 draw at home to Oxford United. In the 1998-99 season, in which City were relegated, he scored 10 goals out of 29 in a forward partnership withAde Akinbiyi . He left City in September 1999, returning to Denmark to joinOdense BK , costing the Danish side £200,000. He left Odense to rejoin his former club Aarhus in November 2001. He was injured in early March 2002, badly breaking his arm in a collision with Sweden international goalkeeperMagnus Kihlstedt , in a game against Kihlstedt's clubFC København . He ended his career in March 2003, due to chronically achingachilles tendon s.Honours
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Danish Cup : 1992External links
* [http://www.dbu.dk/lbase/playerInfo.aspx?playerid=976 Danish national team profile]
*da icon [http://www.aabsport.dk/96CF7553-3EFB-42E0-9F3E-B9DE67F765D4.W5Doc?id=01feb565-9f7c-4ed8-ae5f-6faeb9a0977f AaB profile]
* [http://www.lfp.es/historico/primera/plantillas/historial.asp?jug=5946 La Liga statistics]
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