Henrik Larsen (soccer player, 1966)

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Henrik Larsen
Personnel
birthday 17th May 1966
place of birth Lyngby ,  Denmark
size 188 cm
position Midfielder (left, attacking)
Juniors
Years station
Taarbæk IF
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1984 Hellerup IK 26 0(2)
1985-1990 Lyngby BK 132 (10)
1990-1991 AC Pisa 33 0(1)
1991-1992 Lyngby BK 29 0(5)
1992 AC Pisa 8 0(0)
1993 Aston Villa 0 0(0)
1993-1994 SV Waldhof Mannheim 33 0(5)
1994-1996 Lyngby BK 54 (18)
1996-1999 FC Copenhagen 53 0(6)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1989-1996 Denmark 39 0(5)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1999-2000 FC Copenhagen (Assistant)
2002-2005 Faroe Islands
2006-2008 Køge BK (Assistant)
2008-2009 Lyngby BK (Assistant)
2009 Randers FC (Assistant)
1 Only league games are given.

Henrik "Store" Larsen (born May 17, 1966 in Lyngby ) is a Danish football coach and former national player. With the Danish national team he became European champion in 1992 and was one of the top four goal scorers of the tournament with three goals.

Club career

Henrik was a midfielder who began his career in the youth team of Taarbæk IF in his home town Lyngby-Taarbæk north of Copenhagen . Due to his height of 1.88 m and his weight of 90 kg he was nicknamed Store Larsen , "Big Larsen". He always heeded the rule of life that hard work is the way to success. From the beginning of 1985 to 1990 he played for the Danish first division club Lyngby BK , with whom he won the cup in 1985 and 1990, before moving to the top division of Italy for SC Pisa . After the descent of Pisa, his career stalled a little because the Italians did not want to release him; he returned to Lyngby, for which he was eligible to play in time to become Danish champions for the first time in the year of the European Championship. In 1993 Larson was with Aston Villa in the English Premier League for a while before moving to the German second division club SV Waldhof Mannheim for the 1993/94 season. He played 33 games and scored five goals, but returned to his home club after the season. He stayed there until 1996, when he left Lyngby after 267 games and 36 goals for FC Copenhagen . Here he played until 1999; after his playing days he became assistant coach to Kim Brink at FC Copenhagen .

National team

After Larsen had already played in various youth teams of the Danish federation, he made four games in the Danish U-21 team in 1988. He made his debut in the senior national team, as did Johnny Mølby , Bent "Turbo" Christensen and Hans Erfurt , on February 8, 1989 at a friendship tournament in Malta against the hosts' team . Larsen played from the start and scored in the 82nd minute to make it 2-0. 17 appearances in red and white without scoring followed up to the European Championship finals in 1992. In Sweden, he scored in the preliminary round in a 2-1 win against France ; in the semi-final against the Netherlands he even scored both goals at 2-2 and also converted the first penalty in the subsequent penalty shoot-out . With that he had a big part in the fact that the "substitute participant" of the EM became European champion.

Even at the European Championships in England in 1996 , Larsen was part of the Danish squad, although he had not played in the national team for 21 months. In preparation, however, he had completed his only B international match in April 1996; in the 3-0 win against Scotland he scored the first two goals and wore the armband after the half-time break . Denmark did not get beyond the group stage at the European Championships, so the 3-0 win against Turkey , against whom Larsen came on in the second half, was his last of 39 games with a total of five goals for Danish Dynamite .

Trainer

After his one year assistantship at FC Copenhagen, Larsen took up his first position as head coach at the lower class Ølstykke Fodbold Club in 2000 . Two years later he succeeded Allan Simonsen as coach of the Faroese national team , which he was in charge of until 2005. From 2006 to 2008 he was the coach of Køge Boldklub , and for the 2008/09 season he was responsible for this position at the club for which he had been a player for years: Lyngby BK.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Portraits of former Lyngby BK players. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 22, 2008 ; Retrieved October 10, 2009 (Danish).
  2. ↑ Henrik Larsen at fussballdaten.de. Retrieved October 10, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Game statistics for 1989 ( memento from February 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) at Peders Fodbold Statistics (archive version)
  4. ↑ Henrik Larsen ny cheftræner. (No longer available online.) Lyngby BK, July 15, 2008, archived from the original on July 13, 2012 ; Retrieved October 10, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Larsen, Henrik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Store
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyngby , Denmark