Morten Wieghorst

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Morten Wieghorst
Personnel
birthday February 25, 1971
place of birth Glostrup ,  Denmark
size 191 cm
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1989-1992 Lyngby BK 71 0(4)
1992-1995 Dundee FC 90 (11)
1995-2002 Celtic Glasgow 86 (10)
2002-2005 Brøndby IF 65 (14)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1990-1991 Denmark U-21 6 0(0)
1994-2004 Denmark 30 0(3)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2005-2006 FC Nordsjælland (Co-Tr.)
2006-2011 FC Nordsjælland
2011-2013 Denmark U-21
2013-2014 Swansea City (Co-Tr.)
2014-2015 Aarhus GF
2016– Aalborg BK
1 Only league games are given.

Morten Wieghorst (born February 25, 1971 in Glostrup , Denmark ) is a former Danish football player on the position of midfielder and current football coach .

career

Wieghorst began his career in 1989 with Lyngby BK , with whom he won the national cup in 1990 and became Danish champion in 1992. He then moved to Scotland for Dundee FC . After three years he moved on to the 35-time champions Celtic Glasgow , where he hardly played due to injuries in the first two seasons. He did not play his first season until 1997/98, when Celtic became champions again for the first time in nine years.

In 2000 Wieghorst was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome , which meant that he could not play for a year.

In 2002 he returned to Denmark and switched to master Brøndby IF , where Michael Laudrup was coach. Wieghorst remained injury-free and scored four goals in the game against Farum BK ; the club won the cup in the end and Wieghorst was voted Footballer of the Year in Denmark . Then he was seriously injured again and did not play again until 2005 when he and his team won the double. In the summer of 2005 he ended his career as a player.

National team

Wieghorst made his debut in the Danish national football team in 1994 against Finland . A year later, he and the team won the King Fahd Cup in Saudi Arabia . He took part in the soccer world championships in 1998 and 2002 as well as in the Euro 2000 . He played a total of 30 games between 1994 and 2004 and scored three goals.

Career as a coach

FC Nordsjælland (2006-2011)

After retiring, he became assistant coach at FC Nordsjælland , and head coach a year later. With Nordsjælland he won the Danish Cup in 2010 and 2011 .

Denmark's U-21s (2011-2013) and Swansea City

From July 1st, 2011 Wieghorst was the coach of the Danish U-21 national team . There he replaced Keld Bordinggaard , who had resigned after the U-21 European Football Championship in 2011 . At the beginning of February 2013 he became Michael Laudrup's assistant coach at the English first division club Swansea City . His successor to the Danish U-21 national team was Jess Thorup . On February 4, 2014 Wieghorst and Laudrup were released.

Aarhus GF (2014-2015)

In the 2014/15 season, Morten Wieghorst signed as head coach at Aarhus GF, signing a three-year contract. After a series of poor results during the 2015/16 season, he was released on December 5, 2015 and released from his duties as head coach.

Aalborg BK (since 2016)

Wieghorst has been training the Aalborg BK team since December 15, 2016 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wieghorst becomes U21 national coach. ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2016 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. In: transfermarkt.de. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.transfermarkt.de
  2. ↑ Swansea separates from Michael Laudrup. In: Spiegel Online . February 4, 2014, accessed February 4, 2014.
  3. ↑ AGF Appoint Former Celtic Midfielder Morten Wieghorst as New Boss. In: insidefutbol.com. Retrieved April 27, 2016 (English).
  4. ↑ Morten Wieghorst fyret i AGF. In: bold.dk. Retrieved April 27, 2016 (Danish).
  5. ↑ Morten Wieghorst. In: weltfussball.de. Retrieved January 8, 2017.


personal data
SURNAME Wieghorst, Morten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Glostrup , Denmark