Morten Karlsen

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Morten Karlsen
Personnel
birthday March 25, 1979
place of birth Copenhagen ,  Denmark
size 174 cm
position Midfielder and defender
Juniors
Years station
B. 93 Copenhagen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1997-2002 B. 93 Copenhagen (2)
2002-2004 FC Zwolle 53 (1)
2004-2010 FC Nordsjælland 129 (0)
2010 Randers FC 30 (0)
2011– Esbjerg fB 14 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1998-1999 Denmark U-19 2 (0)
1998 Denmark U-20 2 (0)
2000-2001 Denmark U-21 4 (1)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2010/11

Morten Karlsen (born March 25, 1979 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish football player on the position of a defensive midfielder and defender . So far (as of March 2012) he has spent his active career in his home country Denmark and in the Netherlands.

Club career

Youth and career start

Born in Copenhagen, Morten Karlsen began his active career as a football player at the once very successful and time-honored B.93 Copenhagen . There the promising young footballer went through all youth leagues and finally rose from these to the men's team of the club for the first time in the 1997/98 season , where he was runner-up in his first season in the adult division with the same number of points as master Viborg FF , but with a lower goal difference has been. Since the runner-up in the second-highest Danish football league was also able to move up to the super league, the team fixed the move up to the first class, in which the team could not last long. After just one season, the team had to face relegation after 27 defeats from 33 games. Karlsen established himself this season for the first time as a regular player in defensive midfield or on the defensive and made a record of 29 league appearances. After the recent relegation to the second division, they did not want to give up the promising young player and offer him the opportunity to work at a larger, internationally active club. During the 1999/2000 season, negotiations with the English Premier League club Aston Villa started , which invited the young Danes to a trial session. During his trial training sessions he showed acceptable performance, and nothing seemed to stand in the way of submitting a contract. Among other things, the Dane was used in an encounter with the club's reserve team, but at the end of the probationary period was unable to win a contract with Villa and had to return to Copenhagen. At his home club, he finally completed numerous league appearances and scored his first two competitive goals. At the end of the season, he finished third with the team, just one point away from being promoted again.

As a Copenhagen regular in the Netherlands

The 2000/01 season was generally mediocre for the B.93 Copenhagen . After a moderate season, in which Karlsen acted as one of the regular players, the team only achieved a place in the middle of the table, in the sometimes quite dense final table. After another season as a regular player Karlsen left his club at the end of the 2001/02 season , after the team was involved in the relegation battle in the third division for much of the season and could only just avert relegation. Copenhagen from the former prodigy of B.93 moved to the Netherlands for the time still in the excellence represented Zwolle FC . It didn't take the 1.74 m man long to integrate as one of the regular players, and by the end of the season he had a record of 27 of 34 possible championship appearances. In addition, on May 3, 2003, he scored his first and only goal in the Eredivisie in a 3-1 win over Roda JC . After the team had been involved in the relegation battle for a long time, they ultimately had to take part in the play-offs due to a lower goal difference. There the team was able to prevail, however, and thus secure relegation. After another less than impressive season in 2003/04 , in which FC Zwolle could not catch on and at the end of the season were on the direct relegation zone to the second-class Eerste Divisie , the Danish defensive player decided to change clubs after 26 league appearances.

Return to Denmark

He signed a contract with Superliga club FC Nordsjælland , where he was immediately used as a regular player, but also played there for relegation. This could ultimately be averted with the tenth place in the table; Morten Karlsen was involved in 29 championship games. After the relegation battle 2004/05 , the performance of the entire team moderated in the 2005/06 season , with the team in the final ranking reached a ninth place in the closely staggered mid-table. In the following seasons, mainly due to injury, Karlsen was only used to a limited extent and had to give up his traditional position to his teammates. The main reason for this was a severe concussion or a traumatic brain injury , which Karlsen suffered in a game against Brøndby IF in the spring of 2007 in a clash with the talented youth national player Martin Spelmann and which took him almost a year away from the game Skipped professional football. As a result of this injury, Karlsen complained of constant headaches and nausea for almost two years and had to wear a specially made helmet for a long time, which was purchased in an English online shop for rugby equipment and refined by a bandagist from Aarhus . Since Morten Karlsen, after he was ready for action again, wore this helmet every time he went out, it earned him the title “Danish Čech ” in Denmark . When FC Nordsjælland was already at the top of the table at the end of the 2006/07 season , Karlsen only made 17 first division appearances. Under his namesake Morten Wieghorst , Karlsen barely returned to his former regular position in 2007/08 and after his return from the long break from injury until the end of the season, he made a total of 19 league appearances. In the spring of 2008, the midfielder suffered another concussion in a game against Lyngby BK . Because of the UEFA Respect Fair Play ranking , the ninth-placed FC Nordsjælland qualified for the first round of qualifying for the 2008/09 UEFA Cup , from where Karlsen and his team through two more qualifying rounds until the first round of the tournament vorkämpfte, there however, the Greek representative Olympiacos Piraeus was clearly defeated with an overall result of 0: 7. After Morten Karlsen had fought back almost to his position as a regular player and brought it to 24 league appearances and an eighth place in the season 2008/09 , there was a club change of the former Danish junior national player, who still owns the club, in the following season 2009/10 left in the winter after completing twelve league games and joined league rivals Randers FC .

Via Randers FC to Esbjerg fB

After the winter break, the 30- and 31-year-olds completed 14 league games for the club from the port city of Randers and was able to play with Randers FC, while his previous club won the 2010 cup, the first title in the club's history and thus participation of the 3rd qualifying round for the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League secured participation in the 1st qualifying round of the said competition due to the fair play rating. There, however, the team could not prevail against the later semi-finalists, Hamburger SV , and dropped out of the current competition with an overall result of 1: 4. After Karlsen had played 16 league games for Randers until the winter break of 2010/11 , he finally moved from one port city to another, more precisely to Esbjerg , to Esbjerg fB , which is based there , and which was also playing in the super league at the time. With this he signed a contract until summer 2012 and was used in another 14 league games, so that by the end of the season he had made a record of 30 league appearances. Nevertheless, at the end of the season he could not fend off the supposed relegation in the largely very closely staggered table and rose with the team as bottom of the table in the game operation of the second highest Danish league. Likewise, his previous club rose as the penultimate in the table in the next lower division. There the two teams are among other things aspirants for a return to the super league, with Karlsen acting as an important team support with his defensive game.

National team career

Coming from the successful offspring of B.93 Copenhagen , Morten Karlsen gained his first experience in the Danish national team in 1998, where he played his first international game on November 17, 1998 for the U-19 national team of his home country, playing and playing from the start was replaced by Dan Anton Johansen during the 2-0 defeat against their colleagues from Ireland . At the end of December of the same year, two more international appearances followed at a tournament in Portugal, this time for Denmark's U-20 team. After another U-19 international match in January 1999, a total of four national games for the Danish U-21 national team followed in 2000 and 2001 . Thereafter, Karlsen was not called up to any other national team and was also not invited to the senior national team of his home country. Of his eight international appearances, Morten Karlsen and his team only managed to win points in one game (1-1 against Portugal's U-21s), all the other seven games were lost by the Danes. In the aforementioned game against the Portuguese, Karlsen, who actually appeared as a defensive player, also scored his first and only goal in a Danish national team.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Morten Karlsen on simplesite.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed March 25, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.simplesite.com  
  2. ↑ a b Spænd hjelmen Karl (Danish), accessed on March 26, 2012
  3. ↑ Superleague profile for hjelm på (Danish), accessed on March 26, 2012
  4. ↑ Esbjerg præsenterer Morten Karlsen (Danish), accessed on March 25, 2012
  5. ↑ Denmark U-19 - Ireland U-19 (0: 2) (Danish), accessed March 25, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Karlsen, Morten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen , Denmark