Henning Jensen (soccer player)

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Henning Jensen
Henning Jensen (1979) .jpg
Personnel
Surname Henning Jensen
birthday 17th August 1949
place of birth Nørresundby ,  Denmark
date of death 4th December 2017
position Center Forward
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1965-1972 Nørresundby BK
1972-1976 Borussia Monchengladbach 125 (44)
1976-1979 real Madrid 81 (16)
1979-1981 Ajax Amsterdam 56 0(7)
1981-1983 Aarhus GF 53 (17)
1984 Nørresundby BK
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1972-1980 Denmark 21 0(9)
1 Only league games are given.

Henning Jensen (born August 17, 1949 in Nørresundby ; † December 4, 2017 ) was a Danish football player . The offensive player won the German championship twice with Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1975 and 1976 , the Spanish championship twice in 1978 and 1979 with Real Madrid and the Netherlands in 1980 with Ajax Amsterdam . With the “foals” from Bökelberg he had won the DFB Cup in 1973 and the UEFA Cup in 1975 .

career

Striker Henning Jensen started his career at his home club Nørresundby BK in Aalborg and moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1972 . In his first season he became a regular player and scored eleven goals in 33 games. Together with him, his compatriot Allan Simonsen moved to the Gladbach family. This had initial difficulties, but was together with Henning Jensen and Jupp Heynckes in attack the guarantee for winning the German championships in 1975 and 1976. In the 1974/75 season he won the UEFA Cup in the final against FC Twente Enschede . After winning the DFB Cup in 1973 and losing the UEFA Cup final to Liverpool in the same year , a very successful period for the Dane came to an end in 1976. All in all, he played 125 times in the Bundesliga, scored 44 goals and was one of the best strikers in the 1970s, who was less of a goal-getter than a more enthusiastic and tricky handler. He moved to Real Madrid , where he played one season with Paul Breitner in 1976/77 , but Real only reached 9th place. With newcomer Uli Stielike in midfield alongside Vicente del Bosque and attacking colleagues Santillana and Juanito , he became Spanish champions in 1978 and 1979 under coach Luis Molowny with Madrid and then moved to Ajax Amsterdam , where he became Dutch champions in 1980. He ended his career in Denmark in the 1980s with his original club, Nørresundby BK.

In the Danish national team he played between 1972 and 1980, but without major successes, which Denmark should only achieve under coach Josef Piontek from 1982. He played a total of 21 international matches and scored nine goals. He unsuccessfully participated in three World Cup qualifying rounds before the 1974, 1978 and 1982 World Cups against teams such as Scotland, Cyprus, Yugoslavia, Greece and Italy.

Henning Jensen died on December 4, 2017 at the age of 68 as a result of cancer .

literature

  • Stefan Hermanns: Gladbach's giants. Delius Klasing Verlag. Bielefeld 2012. ISBN 978-3-7688-3525-1 . P. 86.
  • Markus Aretz, Ingo Rütten, Michael Lessenich: Borussia's legends: 11 goal scorers. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-89533-625-6 . Pp. 154/155.
  • Matthias Kropp: Germany's great football teams. Part 5: Borussia Mönchengladbach (= "AGON Sportverlag statistics." Vol. 11). AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-928562-39-8 , p. 40.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gladbach mourns Henning Jensen. In: kicker.de. December 5, 2017. Retrieved December 5, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Fodbold legends Henning Jensen er død. In: tipsbladet.dk. December 5, 2017, accessed December 5, 2017 (Danish).
personal data
SURNAME Jensen, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Nørresundby
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 2017