Dan Petersen

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Dan Petersen
Personnel
Surname Dan Sigvald Petersen
birthday May 6, 1972
place of birth Odense ,  Denmark
size 181 cm
position Offensive all-rounder
Juniors
Years station
until 1990 Odense BK
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1990-1991 Odense BK 15 0(2)
1991-1994 Ajax Amsterdam 43 0(3)
1994-1997 AS Monaco 48 (11)
1995-1997 AS Monaco B 15 0(4)
1997-1998 RSC Anderlecht 19 0(1)
1999-2000 SC Bastia 27 0(3)
2001-2002 SC Bastia B 9 0(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1991 Denmark U-19 1 0(1)
1992 Denmark U-21 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Dan Sigvald Petersen (born May 6, 1972 in Odense ) is a former Danish football player .

The tech-savvy player was considered one of the greatest Danish football talents in the early 1990s, but only made a brief breakthrough in the professional business due to his vulnerability to injury. In 2002 he had to end his career at the age of 30 due to chronic knee problems.

With Ajax Amsterdam he won the Dutch championship title , was a cup and UEFA Cup winner. With AS Monaco he became French football champion .

Club career

Petersen began his career in the youth of his home club Odense BK , where he matured into one of the club's greatest talents. After only a half-year as a professional player, he was brought to Ajax Amsterdam by coach Leo Beenhakker in a double pack with his already established team-mate Johnny Hansen .

Ajax Amsterdam

At Ajax he came in a row in contrast to Hansen at Beenhakker, as well as under his successor Louis van Gaal despite great competition in the form of John van 't Schip and Marc Overmars , mainly as a right winger in the traditional 4-3-3 system to considerable Working times and gave some talent samples. His preferred position as a central offensive player was firmly assigned to Dennis Bergkamp or Aron Winter , which he could not get past. During his three years at Ajax, however, he was not injured in any season, which means that he could never fight for a regular place for a long time. After the departure of Bergkamp, ​​Van Gaal planned with Petersen as his successor in the offensive center, but he again lost his regular place due to an injury to the then talented Jari Litmanen . As a result, he was only left with the substitute bench, as Van Gaal, despite the move from Overmars to the left wing, sat on the right on the newly signed Nigerian Finidi George . Petersen was only used three times over the entire season and, if fit, had to be content with the joker role for the most part. After the 1993/94 season, Van Gaal was ready to give up the injury-prone talent, after which Arsène Wenger brought him to France for AS Monaco .

AS Monaco

Due to his technical skills and versatility, Petersen embodied the ideal replacement for Wenger for the veteran Jérôme Gnako, who had previously given up . As a result, he got a regular place in his preferred position in central midfield or as a right winger and completed a strong debut season in the offensive network with Youri Djorkaeff , Sonny Anderson , Victor Ikpeba , Mickaël Madar and Enzo Scifo . Monaco had the second best offensive behind champions FC Nantes , Petersen became the club's third best goalscorer with ten goals this season.

In the following season, his susceptibility to injuries caught up with him again. During the away defeat against Racing Strasbourg on November 24, 1995, he suffered a serious knee injury and fell out until the end of the season. For the season 1996/97 he started again as a regular player in the championship before he was seriously injured again in November, this time in the away game against Olympique Marseille , and remained convalescent until the end of the season. After he was able to celebrate his second national championship title after 1994 with Ajax, Monaco did not renew his contract due to his uncertain physical condition. As a result he moved together with Scifo to Belgium for RSC Anderlecht .

RSC Anderlecht

In Anderlecht they hoped for a powerful offensive triangle consisting of the Dutchman Gaston Taument and Petersen outside and Scifo as the central playmaker, but this never came about. Petersen presented himself in poor physical condition for the entire season and could no longer match his old class, Taument was permanently injured and only played seven games this season. Anderlecht finished the season on the disappointing fourth place in the table and then tried to give up Petersen, who had also been injured again at the end of the season. In the summer transition period, a change to the English second division team Sheffield United , which had already been reported as a fixed decision, failed due to a failed fitness test, which meant that he had to stay with Anderlecht. There coach Arie Haan no longer had any use for him, after which he had to sit out his contract for the entire season without further use.

End of career

Due to his good reputation in France, he then received another contract with the first division club SC Bastia . As a result, despite constant pain, he only completed his second injury-free season without shining. 2000/01 he fell out the entire season and tried in the last game of the season in the 1: 3 away defeat against Lens again a comeback when he was substituted on in 59 minutes. 2000/01 he was used in nine games for the B team from Bastia, in which he was able to score four goals, before he finally ended his playing career at the age of 30 due to chronic pain.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christian Eriksen ligner Dan Petersen (Danish) tipsbladet.dk, accessed on October 25, 2010.
  2. ↑ Jari Litmanen: lionheart in a gazelle-body (English) ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. netherlands.worldcupblog.org, accessed October 25, 2010.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / netherlands.worldcupblog.org
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Dan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petersen, Dan Sigvald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Odense , Denmark