Bent Christensen Arensøe

Bent Christensen
Bent Christensen (2004)
Personnel
Surname	Bent René Christensen Arensøe
birthday	4th January 1967
place of birth	Copenhagen ,  Denmark
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1984-1985	Brønshøj BK	18 (11)
1985-1986	Servette Geneva	11 0(1)
1986-1987	→  Vejle BK  (loan)	29 (17)
1987-1991	Brøndby IF	100 (62)
1991-1993	FC Schalke 04	49 0(8)
1993-1994	Olympiacos Piraeus	26 0(9)
1994-1997	SD Compostela	110 (35)
1997-1998	Gençlerbirliği	13 0(3)
1998-2000	Brøndby IF	50 (20)
2000	Brønshøj BK	14 0(8)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1983	Denmark U-17	3 0(1)
1983-1985	Denmark U-19	25 0(4)
1986-1987	Denmark U-21	6 0(2)
1996	Denmark B	1 0(0)
1989-1994	Denmark	26 0(8)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2003-2005	Værløse BK
2005-2011	Brøndby IF (youth)
2012–	Brøndby IF (assistant)
1 Only league games are given.

Bent Christensen Arensøe (formerly Bent René Christensen ; born January 4, 1967 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish football coach and former professional footballer . He played for various top division clubs in Europe, he was with Brøndby IF for six years , where he scored a total of 106 goals in 206 games and was Danish champion five times. Because of his speed and attack strength, the striker was called Turbo ; at FC Schalke 04 , for which he scored only eight goals in two Bundesliga seasons, the fans soon called him Trabi .

He has been a coach at Brøndby IF since October 2005: initially as a youth coach, later as a coaching assistant for the first division team.

Club career

Christensen began his career in 1985 at Brønshøj BK under coach Ebbe Skovdahl . But in the same year the only 17-year-old went to the National League A to Servette Geneva , where he immediately became Swiss champion. In 1987 he returned to his home country on loan, where he signed with Vejle BK . Later that year he moved back home entirely and signed with Brøndby IF , where Skovdahl was now coach. With Brøndby he won the Danish championships in 1988 and 1989; During this time he made his national team debut .

Three times - in 1988, 1990 and 1991 - he was the most successful scorer of the season in the Danish premier league during his time with Brøndby . Under coach Morten Olsen , he reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup with Brøndby in 1991 . For the 1991/92 season Christensen moved again abroad; here he signed with FC Schalke 04 , which previously rose to the Bundesliga . The five-million Deutschmark -Transfer made him at the time the most expensive Danish football players. In his two seasons in Gelsenkirchen he was denied success; he made his first of six goals in the 1991/92 season in the first minute of the match on matchday 13 against Hansa Rostock . He was nevertheless substituted in the 71st minute of the game for Uwe Leifeld , who then contributed two goals to the 5-0 victory. In his second season he only got two hits in 23 missions. However, one of them secured him a "place in the heart of the Knappen fans": on August 22, 1992, after Günter Schlipper's opening goal , he scored the second goal of the 2-0 win in the Revierderby at Borussia Dortmund .

With none of the three coaches in his Schalke time - Aleksandar Ristić , Udo Lattek and Helmut Schulte - he got along. He “needed the counter game in which he could throw his speed into the balance. This tactical variant was not practiced at Schalke at the time. ”For the 1993/1994 season he was loaned to Olympiacos Piraeus in Greece and a year later to SD Compostela in the Primera División . The Spaniards bought it from Schalke in 1995 for 500,000 Deutschmarks. He stayed with the Galician club for a total of three successful years before moving to Gençlerbirliği in Turkey in 1997 . However , he did not end the season in the Süperlig ; he went back to Denmark and signed again with Brøndby IF, where he was the strike colleague of the later Schalke player Ebbe Sand . With Brøndby Christensen Arensøe won the championship and the cup in 1998. The following season he took part in the Champions League with Brøndby . After the 1999/2000 season he ended his professional career, but made a few more games for his youth club, the then second division promoted Brønshøj BK .

National team

Christensen was appointed to the national team for the first time in 1989 by coach Sepp Piontek for a tournament in Malta ; like Johnny Mølby , Henrik Larsen and Hans Erfurt , he had his first appearance on February 8, 1989 in the game against the hosts . What was curious about Christensen's first game was that two players with the same name were on the pitch for 72 minutes before he was substituted - in addition to Turbo , his namesake Bent Egsmark Christensen from Lyngby BK , who made his second of four international matches against Malta. Both played together again in a 1996 international B match against Scotland .

In 1992 Christensen was part of the European champions' squad . However, he was only used in two preliminary round games against England and Sweden and had to leave after an injury. He did not take part in the celebrations after winning the title and never felt himself to be a European champion.

His national team career ended during his time in Spain with the 3-0 defeat in Seville against Spain in the European Championship qualification . In his total of 26 games under the Danebrog , he hit the opposing goal eight times.

Coaching career

In January 2003 he became the head coach of Værløse BK , which he led to the third division. In October 2005 Brøndby IF signed him as a coach of the A-youth (U-18). He later moved to the coaching assistant of the first division team when he was part of Aurelijus Skarbalius' coaching team from January 1, 2012 .

successes

• Swiss champion: 1985
• Danish champion: 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1998
• Danish Cup Winner: 1989, 1998
• European football champion: 1992

Web links

• Bent Christensen in the database of the Danish Football Association (Danish)
• Bent Christensen in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Bent Christensen in the lfp.es database
• Bent Christensen in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Christensen's statistics 1998–2000 at Brøndby IF

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Anders Kamper and Kurt Stendal: "» Turbo «bliver træner" , Berlingske Tidende of September 11, 2002
2. ↑ ^{a b} Jakob Kvist: "Fodbold er hvid slavehandel" , Ekstra Bladet of October 19, 1993
3. ↑ "Ex-Schalke professional Christensen leads Danes into the tournament" , Nordwest-Zeitung of August 6, 2007, quoted on the website of SV Hansa Friesoythe, viewed on August 15, 2008
4. ↑ ^{a b} "Deadline - January 4th, 2004 : Bent Christensen was born 37 years ago" , website 100 Schalke Years of January 4, 2004, viewed on March 12, 2008
5. ↑ ^{a b} Ebbe Rossander: “En turbo kommer til byen” , Dagbladet information from June 23, 2003
6. ↑ Peders Fodbold Statistics - A-Nationalmannschaft, 1989 ( Memento of the original from February 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , viewed on February 20, 2008  
7. ↑ Peders Fodbold Statistics - B-Nationalmannschaft, 1996 ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , viewed on February 20, 2008  
8. ↑ "Turbo vender hjem" ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Brøndby IF website of October 26, 2005, viewed February 20, 2008 
9. ↑ brondby.com: "Brøndby IF forlænger med Auri Skarbalius" (accessed on June 26, 2012)