Erik Veje Rasmussen

Erik Veje Rasmussen

Erik Veje Rasmussen (2009)
Player information
birthday	April 9, 1959
place of birth	Hørve , Denmark
citizenship	Danish
height	1.96 m
Playing position	Back room
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-1979	Vallekilde-Hørve
1979-1981	Helsingør IF
1981-1982	TuS Nettelstedt
1982-1983	Helsingør IF
1983-1984	SC Málaga
1984-1986	VfL Gummersbach
1986-1988	VHG Dragsholm
1988-1989	TUSEM food
1989-1990	VHG Dragsholm
1990-1992	Pathfinder Winterthur
1992-1994	Roar Roskilde
1994-1998	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen
National team
Debut on	October 24, 1980
against	Faroe Islands
	Games (goals)
Denmark	233 (1015)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
1986-1988	VHG Dragsholm (player-coach)
1989-1990	VHG Dragsholm (player-coach)
1992-1994	Roar Roskilde (player-coach)
1994-1998	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen (player-coach)
1998-2003	SG Flensburg-Handewitt
2003-2009	Aarhus GF
2010–	Aarhus GF
As of September 20, 2015

Erik Veje Rasmussen (born April 9, 1959 in Hørve ) is a Danish handball coach and former handball player .

Career

Erik Veje Rasmussen began playing handball at Vallekilde-Hørve and in 1979 moved to the Danish first division club Helsingør IF . After the backcourt player won the Danish championship with Helsingør in 1981, he moved to the German Bundesliga club TuS Nettelstedt . Just one season later he returned to Helsingør IF. After Rasmussen went hunting for goals for the Spanish club SC Málaga in the 1983/84 season, he then played for the German Bundesliga club VfL Gummersbach . With Gummersbach he celebrated the German championship in 1985 and winning the DHB Cup .

Rasmussen moved to the Danish club VHG Dragsholm in 1986, where he worked as a player-coach. In the 1989/89 season, the Dane played at TUSEM Essen , with whom he won the championship and the European Cup Winners' Cup . He then returned to the VHG Dragsholm. From 1990 Rasmussen was under contract as a player with the Swiss first division club Pfadi Winterthur . After winning the Swiss championship in 1992, he moved to Roar Roskilde. Between 1994 and 1998 he was a player-coach for the Swiss first division club TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen .

Erik Veje Rasmussen played from 1980 to 1993 a total of 233 international matches for the Danish national team , in which he scored 1,015 goals. With Denmark he took part in the 1984 Olympic Games.

From 1998 to 2003, Rasmussen was under contract as a coach at the Bundesliga club SG Flensburg-Handewitt , which under his leadership won the Euro City Cup in 1999 , the European Cup Winners ' Cup in 2001 and the DHB Cup in 2003. From 2003 he coached the Danish club Aarhus GF . In 2004 he made a comeback at the age of 45 when Aarhus had to do without several players due to injury. In 2009 Rasmussen ended his coaching activity in Aarhus, but returned a year later to the Aarhus coaching bench.

Private

Erik Veje Rasmussen is married and has four children. His son Nikolaj Veje Rasmussen also played handball professionally.

Web links

Commons : Erik Veje Rasmussen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Erik Veje Rasmussen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Erik Veje Rasmussen in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.haslund.info: Erik Veje Rasmussen , accessed on December 25, 2017
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} www.djoefbladet.dk: Visionære Veje , accessed on 7 July 2013
3. ↑ www.sg-flensburg-handewitt.de: SG Flensburg-Handewitt - Konter , accessed on July 7, 2013
4. ↑ politiken.dk: Comeback til Erik Veje Rasmussen , accessed on 7 July 2013
5. ↑ www.fyens.dk: Erik Veje igen cheftræner i Århus GF , accessed on May 9, 2017
6. ↑ www.handball-world.com: Nikolaj Veje Rasmussen was able to leave the intensive care unit , accessed on July 7, 2013