Morten North Beach

Morten North Beach
Personnel
Surname	Morten North Beach Nielsen
birthday	June 8, 1983
place of birth	Hundested ,  Denmark
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
	Frederikshavn fI
	Lyngby BK
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2001-2006	Lyngby BK	93 (73)
2006-2007	FC Nordsjælland	33 (19)
2007–2012	FC Copenhagen	86 (30)
2009-2010	→  FC Groningen  (loan)	12 0(2)
2011	→  FC Nordsjælland  (loan)	9 0(1)
2012–	FC Nordsjælland	22 0(7)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2007-2009	Denmark	11 0(4)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2012/13

Morten Nordstrand (born June 8, 1983 in Hundested ) is a Danish football player. The striker is currently playing for the Danish first division club FC Nordsjælland .

Life

Before Morten Nordstrand started his career as a professional footballer, he attended a sports school in Nordjylland and played for the local club Frederikshavn fI . After leaving school, he moved to Zealand to play for Lyngby BK in the Danish Super League . Due to the threatening bankruptcy of the club, Nordstrand was called up as one of many players by the youth team in the winter of 2001 and made his debut for the A-team in December 2001 at the age of 17. The bankruptcy of Lyngby BK could not be averted, the club was relegated after the 2001/02 season and Nordstrand found itself in the fourth division, the Denmark Series . There he managed, however, to prove himself as a goalscorer and contributed to the fact that Lyngby BK rose again at the end of the 2003/04 season in the Danish second division . Together with his strike partner Christian Holst , he scored 43 goals in the 2004/05 season.

When his contract with Lyngby expired in July 2006, many top Danish clubs were interested in Nordstrand. Ultimately, he decided to sign with FC Nordsjælland .

In the first half of the 2006/07 season, Nordstrand was the top scorer with 10 goals in 18 games. Due to the good performance he was called up to the national team and made his debut in the friendly against Australia in February 2007 for the national team. Before that, he played three games for the unofficial national team of the Danish league on a tour of the USA, El Salvador and Honduras.

For FC Nordsjælland he played all 33 games in the 2006/07 season and scored a total of 19 goals.

On July 6, 2007, Nordstrand moved to reigning champions FC Copenhagen . The transfer fee was reported to be DKK 15 million (EUR 2 million).

Web links

• Profile at the Danish Association
• Career statistics at Danmarks Radio
• Morten Nordstrand in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Danmarksturneringen 2004 - 05 ( Danish ) Archived from the original on January 28, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 14, 2007. at Peders Fodboldstatistik 
2. ↑ "Topscorer til FCN", Berlingske Tidende , 8 June 2006
3. ↑ To landsholdsspillere til FC København ( Danish ) FC Copenhagen . July 6, 2007. Archived from the original on February 26, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 6, 2007. 
4. ^ Gisle Thorsen, Schrøder, Rene & Carlskov, Thor: FCK smider 15 millioner for 'Nord' ( Danish ) Ekstra Bladet . July 6, 2007. Archived from the original on July 8, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 6, 2007.