Jess Thorup

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Jess Thorup (born February 21, 1970 in Hjerting ) is a former Danish football player and current coach .

Athletic career

Thorup comes from the youth of Odense BK . He made his debut in Danish professional football for the club in 1989 and won the Danish championship title in the same year. In 1991 and 1993 the striker also won the state cup . In 1996 he moved to Germany and joined the KFC Uerdingen 05 , with which he competed in the 2nd Bundesliga . After only three goals in 39 league games, he moved to Austria after a year and a half at the turn of the year 1997/98, where he found accommodation with FC Tirol Innsbruck . He returned to Denmark in the summer of 1998 and played for Esbjerg fB until 2005 . He then let his career end with Ham-Kam in Norway.

In 2006 Thorup returned to Esbjerg fB as assistant coach from Troels Bech . After the dismissal of his boss in November 2008, he took over the team as an interim coach for three games, but then returned to the second line and worked on Ove Pedersen . After his resignation in March 2011, he rose to head coach, but could not prevent relegation from the super league . After the direct promotion, the team placed themselves in the safe midfield and moved into the final of the national cup. A goal from Youssef Toutouh Randers FC defeated Randers FC 1-0 there, and Thorup was then voted coach of the year.

Thorup switched to the Danish Football Association in the summer of 2013. As coach of the Danish U-21 team , he took part in the U-21 European Championship in 2015 , in which the selection reached the semi-finals. There you failed at the eventual winner Sweden . Then he returned to club football and took over as successor to Glen Riddersholm to FC Midtjylland , who retired after winning the league title. After being eliminated from qualifying for the UEFA Champions League against APOEL Nicosia , the team survived the group stage of the 2015/16 UEFA Europa League under his leadership . In the sixteenth-finals, she made people sit up and take notice with a 2-1 first leg win over Manchester United , but despite a 1-0 lead by Pione Sisto at Old Trafford , she was eliminated from the competition after a 5-1 defeat in the second leg.

On October 10, 2018, he was hired as a coach by the Belgian club KAA Gent . The season 2018/19 was ended Ghent fifth of the Masters play-off. After the Belgian court of arbitration ruled on 17 July 2019 for sport as an appellate instance, KV Mechelen was excluded from the 2017/18 season, among other things, due to the manipulation of the game of the first division KV Mechelen against Waasland-Beveren on 11 March 2018 in the 2017/18 season the Europa League , this exclusion was confirmed by UEFA on July 18, 2019. All Belgian clubs move up for a qualification place. The last place that became vacant was taken over by the KAA Gent as the first non-qualified club, so that Gent qualified for the Europa League and played there as the first game in the second qualifying round against FC Viitorul Constanța . Gent received official approval for the Europa League a week before the first game.

Over the other qualifying rounds, the club finally reached the group stage, where it won Group I with three wins and three draws. Gent took part in the round of 32, where it was eliminated by AS Roma .

In the season 2019/20 the was Club Brugge KV No. 1 on the Main round not to take already three games. Ghent was in second place at the time. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the championship was canceled after the 29th match day of the main round. After three defeats, Ghent's lead over Sporting Charleroi had shrunk to one and Royal Antwerp to two points. As the abandonment table for the European Cup places was used, Gent qualified for the third qualifying round for the 2020/21 UEFA Champions League .

After the club lost the first two games in the 2020/21 Ghent season , Thorup was dismissed as coach on August 20, 2020.

successes

  • Danish champion: 1989
  • Danish Cup Winner: 1991, 1993 (player), 2013 (coach)
  • Danish Coach of the Year: 2013

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jess Thorup nieuwe coach KAA Gent. KAA Gent, October 10, 2018, accessed on October 12, 2018 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ Patrice Sintzen: Officiel: La Gantoise sur la scène européenne. In: sport.be. Jupiler League, July 18, 2019, accessed August 20, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ Ainde samenwerking KAA Gent en Jess Thorup. KAA Gent, August 20, 2020, accessed on August 20, 2020 (Dutch).

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personal data
SURNAME Thorup, Jess
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Hjerting , Denmark