Jonathan Richter

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Jonathan Richter
Personnel
birthday January 16, 1985
place of birth Denmark
size 178 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
Rosenhøj BK
BK Frem København
Brøndby IF
FC Nordsjælland
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2005-2009 FC Nordsjælland 70 (9)
1 Only league games are given.

Jonathan Richter (born January 16, 1985 ) is a former Danish football player on the position of midfielder . His last club was FC Nordsjælland, which played in the Danish Super League .

On July 20, 2009, he was struck by lightning during a training session . When his left lower leg was amputated at the end of August 2009, Richter's career as an active soccer player was also over.

Jonathan Richter has a twin brother named Simon , who is also a professional footballer for FC Nordsjælland. In contrast to Jonathan, Simon plays in the position of defender .

Career

Youth career

Richter began his active career as a football player in the youth division of Rosenhøj BK in the Copenhagen suburb of Hvidovre . Shortly after his stint in Hvidovre, the young midfielder moved to the youth department of BK Frem København , where he went through various youth leagues. After the club was financially weak due to bankruptcy in 1993, a change of judge followed in the offspring of the most famous Danish football club, Brøndby IF . After a few years on the Danish coast, not far from the capital Copenhagen, the trained midfielder was drawn to his last youth station, FC Nordsjælland, which was only founded in its current form in 1991.

At the club with its unusual club structure (the club also joins the first teams of various smaller clubs from the region and is keen to involve even more clubs in this project) he played in the youth team until 2005 and only came into the as a 20-year-old Professional team of the club used.

The time at FC Nordsjælland

Richter made his professional debut on October 16, 2005, in a 0-0 away draw against AC Horsens , when he came on for Stephan Petersen in the 86th minute . Richter scored his first professional league goal on May 14, 2006 in the last round of the season, also in a game against AC Horsens. In the home win of his team, he contributed the goal to the 3-0 final score in the 90th minute. After a ninth place in the 2005/06 season , the 1.78 m tall midfielder was increasingly used in the 2006/07 season and scored three goals in 16 league games. With the team he reached fifth place in the final table. The following season 2007/08 was similarly successful, albeit with fewer stakes, when the judge scored once in 13 championship games. Although he reached with his team in the final table only the ninth place in the table, the team was allowed to participate together with the eighth-placed Brøndby IF in the qualification for the UEFA Cup 2008/09 . It should be noted that Richter did not come to a single league assignment for Nordsjælland throughout 2007; not in the spring season 2006/07 and also not in the autumn championship 2007/08.

With Nordsjælland he qualified after successes against FC TVMK Tallinn (Estonia) and Queen of the South (Scotland) for the first round of the 2008/09 UEFA Cup , in which the team clearly failed at the Greek representative Olympiacos . In the league action of the 2008/09 season , Jonathan Richter made the long-awaited breakthrough when he was used in 26 games and scored four goals. At the end of the season, FC Nordsjælland reached eighth place in the table. In the following season 2009/10 he only got a short championship appearance on July 18, 2009.

Lightning strike and life after

Tragedy occurred on July 20, 2009, when Richter was with his team at a training session in the Hvidovre Stadium . During a warm-up game, lightning struck Richter's body, knocking him to the ground and causing cardiac arrest . After he was resuscitated , he was taken to Hvidovre Hospital. Since his health did not improve very much in the days and weeks that followed, the doctors decided to amputate the lower leg of his left leg, which had been damaged by lightning. After the amputation, Richter's health improved dramatically. His career as an active football player has since ended, although Jonathan Richter himself never officially announced an end to his career.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Game summary on danskfodbold.com (Danish), accessed on 29 March 2010
  2. ↑ Game summary on danskfodbold.com (Danish), accessed on 29 March 2010
  3. ↑ Richters tilstand kritisk efter lynnedslag (Danish), accessed on March 29, 2010
  4. ↑ Tragiske billeder: Fodboldspiller ramt af lyn under kamp ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Danish), accessed March 29, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ekstrabladet.tv
  5. ↑ Jonathan Richters ben amputeret (Danish), accessed March 29, 2010
  6. ↑ Leg amputation by a Danish professional , accessed on March 29, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Denmark