Frank Arnesen

Frank Arnesen
Frank Arnesen in the jersey of Ajax Amsterdam (1978)
Personnel
birthday	September 30, 1956
place of birth	Copenhagen ,  Denmark
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1974-1975	Fremad Amager	(19)
1975-1981	Ajax Amsterdam	159 (52)
1981-1983	Valencia CF	32 (10)
1983-1985	RSC Anderlecht	50 (15)
1985-1988	PSV Eindhoven	54 (11)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1973	Denmark U-17	1 0(1)
1973-1975	Denmark U-19	13 0(4)
1975-1976	Denmark U-21	4 0(0)
1977-1987	Denmark	52 (14)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1991-1994	PSV Eindhoven (assistant coach)
20110	Hamburger SV (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Frank Arnesen (born September 30, 1956 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish football official and former football player .

Career as a player

society

Arnesen began his career while at school with Fremad Amager . After graduating from school in 1975, he moved to Ajax Amsterdam in the Netherlands . After a second place in the table in the 1975/76 season, he won the Dutch championship in the 1976/77 season; this success was repeated in 1979 and 1980. In 1979 he won the Dutch Cup with Ajax in addition to the championship .

For the 1981/82 season Arnesen moved to Valencia CF in the Primera División . After two years in Valencia, he signed a contract with the Belgian first division club and then UEFA Cup winner RSC Anderlecht , where three other Danes played with Morten Olsen , Kenneth Brylle and Per Frimann . Due to a knee injury in Anderlecht, he was unable to continue his performance from his first season at FC Valencia, but won the Belgian championship title with the club in the 1984/85 season.

After two years Arnesen returned to PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands . He did not find his way back to his old strength in Eindhoven either, but won the championship and cup double three times in a row with PSV . In 1988 PSV won the European Cup , but Arnesen was not used in the final. After breaking his left leg, he retired that same year.

National team

On October 5, 1977 Frank Arnesen played under national coach Kurt Nielsen in the 0-1 in the friendly against Sweden in Malmö for the first time for the national team of Denmark . At this point the national team could not qualify for a major tournament and potential key players were playing at foreign clubs, which is why they were not nominated, making the Danish national team more of an amateur team. The upswing only followed from 1979, when the German Sepp Piontek took over the office of national coach. In 1983, the Danish national team qualified after a 1-0 victory at Wembley Stadium in London against England for participation in the European Championship in France in 1984 , with Arnesen not being in this game. The opening game of the tournament in the Prinzenparkstadion in Paris was lost 1-0 to France , in the second group game against Yugoslavia Denmark won 5-0, with Arnesen scoring the first Danish goal at this tournament and also marking the 3-0 with a penalty. Denmark won the decisive group game against the reigning runner-up European champions Belgium after falling 2-0 down with 3-2; Arnesen scored the goal to 1: 2 with a penalty kick. Denmark met Spain in the semi-finals and only failed on penalties. Arnesen had been replaced by Jesper Olsen in the 68th minute .

In 1985 the Danish team qualified for participation in the 1986 World Cup , which was Denmark's first ever participation in the World Cup. Arnesen was used in the first two group matches against Scotland and Uruguay . In the last group game against Germany he saw the red card and was suspended in the round of 16 against Spain. He made his last game on June 3, 1987 in a 1-1 draw against Czechoslovakia . He made a total of 52 international matches (14 goals).

Career as a functionary and trainer

Stations as a functionary

society	Taking office	Resignation	function
PSV Eindhoven	0July 1, 1994	May 10, 2004	Manager
Tottenham Hotspur	May 10, 2004	0June 4, 2005	Sports director
Chelsea FC	June 25, 2005	July 12, 2009	Junior coordinator , chief analyst
	May 15, 2008	May 22, 2011	Board member
	July 12, 2009	May 22, 2011	Sports director
Hamburger SV	May 23, 2011	22. May 2013	Sports director
Metalist Kharkiv	0Feb. 1, 2014	07th Mar 2014	Sports director
PAOK Saloniki	May 27, 2015	Feb. 17, 2016	Sports director
RSC Anderlecht	0Jan. 3, 2019	03rd Oct 2019	technical director
Feyenoord Rotterdam	Nov 20, 2019	still active	technical director

After finishing his active career, Arnesen initially worked as a co-trainer at PSV Eindhoven. From 1994 to 2004 he was sports director. During this time he was responsible for the obligations of Ronaldo , Arjen Robben , Ruud van Nistelrooy , Eiður Guðjohnsen and Park Ji-sung , among others . In 2004 he became a manager at Tottenham Hotspur , but left the club after a year and became a junior manager and chief scout at Chelsea FC . In May 2008 he was also appointed to the board of the association. In the 2009/10 season he also worked there as a sports director.

In February 2011 Arnesen signed a contract as of July 1, 2011 as sports director at Hamburger SV . The contract was concluded with a term until June 30, 2014; he was accompanied by the chief scout of Chelsea FC, Lee Congerton , who took over the function of technical director in Hamburg. Arnesen took up his new post as head of sport and board member of HSV early on May 23, 2011 in consultation with his old employer, Chelsea FC.

On October 10, 2011, Arnesen was temporarily in addition to his position as head of sports coach of the Bundesliga team instead of Michael Oenning, who had previously been on leave . He looked after the team until October 16, 2011; Thorsten Fink then followed him as the new trainer. In the Bundesliga game against SC Freiburg , he led HSV to a 2-1 success.

After the 2012/13 season , HSV parted ways with Arnesen, whose contract would have been valid until 2014. The association cited "financial considerations" and "differing views on the long-term sporting orientation of the association" as reasons.

On February 1, 2014 Arnesen became sports director at the Ukrainian first division club Metalist Kharkiv ; his contract ran until June 30, 2016. On March 7, 2014, he left his post due to the political situation in Ukraine. At the end of May 2015, he signed a three-year contract with PAOK Saloniki . In February 2016, the separation between Arnesen and PAOK Saloniki was decided.

On April 28, 2017, Frank Arnesen was elected to the Supervisory Board of PSV Eindhoven. At the turn of the year 2018/19 Arnesen moved to his former club RSC Anderlecht as Technical Director. On October 3, 2019, RSC Anderlecht announced a change of coach and his dismissal. At this point in time, Anderlecht had only achieved six out of a possible 27 points in nine games. A month later, Arnesen returned to the Netherlands and became the new Technical Director of Feyenoord Rotterdam .

Trivia

In 1988 Arnesen recorded a song for the European Championship with the Danish national team and the Danish band Rocazino .

Arnesen lives with his family in Eindhoven, the Netherlands . His twin daughters (* 1976) and the youngest daughter (* 1988) were born in the Netherlands. His son, born in Spain (* 1982), also grew up there. In the 2011/12 season he was active for HSV as a scout for the Benelux region .

In addition to Danish , Arnesen also speaks German , Dutch , English , French and Spanish .

Web links

• Player profile on the homepage of the Danish Football Association (Danish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Kai Schiller and Marcus Scholz: "I had to learn to make compliments". In: Hamburger Abendblatt. Zeitungsgruppe Hamburg GmbH, January 7, 2012, accessed on November 16, 2014 . 
2. ↑ The new HSV sports director Frank Arnesen brought these stars to sportbild.de on February 23, 2011
3. ↑ Hamburger Sport-Verein eV (ed.): Frank Arnesen becomes sports director of HSV. In: hsv.de. February 20, 2011, archived from the original on February 23, 2011 ; accessed in 2011 . 
4. ^ Hamburger Sport-Verein eV (ed.): Frank Arnesen: "Working together from A to Z". In: hsv.de. May 18, 2011, archived from the original on May 21, 2011 ; accessed in 2011 . 
5. ↑ Frank Arnesen is the new team manager at HSV. hsv.de, October 10, 2011, archived from the original on October 12, 2011 ; Retrieved October 11, 2011 . 
6. ^ Hamburger Sport-Verein eV (ed.): HSV and Frank Arnesen separate . In: HSV.de. 2013, archived from the original on June 7, 2013 ; accessed in 2013 . 
7. ↑ Arnesen new head of sports in Kharkiv
8. ↑ Frank Arnesen has resigned ( Memento from March 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ New job for ex-HSV sports director sport1.de May 27, 2015.
10. ^ PAOK FC (ed.): End of collaboration with Frank Arnesen. In: PAOK Saloniki. February 17, 2016, accessed September 4, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Frank Arnesen commissaris bij PSV , PSV Eindhoven, April 28, 2017, accessed on May 17, 2019 (Dutch)
12. ↑ Frank Arnesen naar Anderlecht , PSV Eindhoven, December 20, 2018, accessed on May 17, 2019 (Dutch)
13. ↑ Frank Arnesen wordt de nieuwe technical directeur van RSC Anderlecht , RSC Anderlecht, December 20, 2018, accessed on May 17, 2019 (Dutch)
14. ^ Le RSCA presente Frank Vercauteren comme entraineur principal. RSC Anderlecht, October 3, 2019, accessed on October 3, 2019 (French). 
15. ^ Frank Arnesen nieuwe technical director Feyenoord. In: Feyenoord Rotterdam . Feyenoord Rotterdam NV, November 20, 2019, accessed December 14, 2019 (Dutch). 
16. ↑ Not only team boss, but also singer - or not? Radio Hamburg, accessed on December 31, 2011 . 
17. ↑ Florian Rebien: Frank Arnesen: Escape from the Ukraine. In: Hamburger Morgenpost. Morgenpost Verlag GmbH, March 10, 2014, accessed on July 11, 2014 . 
18. ↑ ^{a b} HSV (ed.): Macher, Kosmopolit, Sportsman - House visit with Frank Arnesen. March 4, 2011, archived from the original on March 7, 2011 ; Retrieved August 2, 2012 . 
19. ↑ This is how Arnesen is building the new HSV