- Bjarne Goldbæk
Football player infobox2
playername= Bjarne Goldbæk
fullname = Bjarne Goldbæk
nickname =
dateofbirth = Birth date and age|1968|10|6|mf=y
cityofbirth =Copenhagen
countryofbirth =Denmark
height = 180 cm
currentclub =
clubnumber =
position = Attacking midfielder (retired)
youthyears = 19??-1987
youthclubs =B 1901
years = 1987
1987-1989
1989-1993
1993-1994
1994-1996
1996-1998
1998-2000
2000-2003
2003-2005
clubs =Næstved IF Schalke 04
KaiserslauternTeBe Berlin 1. FC Köln F.C. Copenhagen Chelsea F.C. Fulham F.C. Rot-Weiss Essen
caps(goals) = 17 (4)
74 (8)
80 (11)
24 (5)
30 (2)
74 (16)
29 (5)
85 (6)
61 (9)
nationalyears = 1987-1988
1987-2001
nationalteam = Denmark u-21
Denmark
nationalcaps(goals) = 5 (0)
28 (0)
pcupdate =
ntupdate =Bjarne Goldbæk (born
October 6 ,1968 ) is a Danish former professional footballer and current sportspundit for Kanal 5. He played for a number of foreign clubs, includingChelsea F.C. andFulham F.C. inEngland and several clubs inGermany . He most prominently won the 1990German Cup tournament and 1990-91 German Bundesliga championship with1. FC Kaiserslautern . For theDenmark national football team , Goldbæk was capped 28 times, and he was a part of the Danish squads for the1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000 tournaments.Biography
Born in
Copenhagen , Goldbæk started his career with Danish clubB 1901 , before he was snapped up by the top-flightDanish 1st Division clubNæstved IF in 1987. ["Dagens portræt - Farligt og flittigt talent", "Politiken ", November 18, 1992] Goldbæk quickly moved abroad to play forSchalke 04 of theGerman Bundesliga in September that year, and he got his debut for the Danish national team on November 18, 1987 in the 0-1 defeat to the German national team. In December 1989, Goldbæk changed clubs to Bundesliga rivals1. FC Kaiserslautern , where he won the German Bundesliga championship in the 1990-91 season. He further played forTennis Borussia Berlin and FC Cologne in Germany, before he returned to Denmark to play forF.C. Copenhagen in 1996.At F.C. Copenhagen he quickly became a mainstay in the team, and he was awarded the 1998 "F.C. Copenhagen Player of the Year" award. Following good displays and a goal scored in two
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup matches against Chelsea, he joined that club for £330,000 in November 1998, in a deal that sent fellow DaneBrian Laudrup from Chelsea to Copenhagen. The Danish international originally made a big impression when he moved to Stamford Bridge, but he was not in favour with Chelsea's managerGianluca Vialli who tried to off-load him to Birmingham City and Nottingham Forest. Goldbæk struggled to hold down a regular rotation place at Chelsea, before Fulham snatched the attacking midfielder from Chelsea at the cost of £650,000 in January 2000.He made his Fulham debut in a 1-0 home defeat at the hands of Grimsby Town, but soon became an important player as Fulham won the English First Division crown in the 2000-01 season. As Fulham manager
Jean Tigana 's team strengthened, it appeared Goldbæk's future was becoming bleak at the club. He made just 18 appearances in the 2001-02 season. However, he started the next campaign in the picture as he came on as a substitute in theInterToto Cup game againstFC Haka fromFinland in early July 2002. He left Fulham to play for German Regionalliga clubRot-Weiß Essen in 2003. He was the team captain when the club earned promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2004, but as Rot-Weiß Essen wererelegated to the Regionalliga again the following year, Goldbæk retired his active career in summer 2005.Honours
*
German Cup : 1990, with Kaiserslautern
*German Bundesliga : 1991, with Kaiserslautern
*Danish Cup : 1997, with F.C. CopenhagenTrivia
*Bjarne Goldbæk is also the name of a fictional character from the cult-tv show
Casper & Mandrilaftalen , played byFrank Hvam . In one episode, the character Bjarne Goldbæk is sold to F.C. Copenhagen in order to save the show from bankruptcy.References
External links
* [http://www.dbu.dk/lbase/playerInfo.aspx?playerid=983 DBU profile] (Danish national team career stats)
* [http://www.fussballdaten.de/spieler/goldbaekbjarne/ FussballDaten profile] (German career stats)
* [http://nipserstat.dk/servlets/SimpleResponse?player=Bjarne+Goldb%E6k&queryType=PlayerQuery&playerOperator=or&scorerOperator=or NipserStat profile] (F.C. Copenhagen career stats)
* [http://www.national-football-teams.com/php/spieler.php?id=12681 National Football Teams career statistics]
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