Ole Tobiasen

Ole Tobiasen, 2008

Ole Tobiasen (born July 8, 1975 ) is a former Danish soccer player and today's soccer coach .

In his active career he was a defender and first played for FC Copenhagen before he was under contract for seven years in the Netherlands with SC Heerenveen , Ajax Amsterdam and AZ Alkmaar . Tobiasen then returned to his native country, where he was again active in Copenhagen and later at Aalborg BK . Via the detour Sandefjord Fotball in Norway, Ole Tobiasen returned to the Netherlands and joined the second division club MVV Maastricht . After retiring from his career, Tobiasen stayed in the Netherlands and is currently coaching the second division Almere City FC .

Career as a player

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During his youth, Ole Tobiasen played for Amager at Boldklubben 1908 and Fremad Amager, as well as at Kjøbenhavns Boldklub , one of the oldest football clubs in continental Europe. In 1992 Tobiasen received a professional contract with FC Copenhagen , which had previously resulted from a merger between Kjøbenhavns Boldklub and Boldklubben in 1903 . In three and a half years at the capital club Tobiasen played 46 games, where he was one of the regular players in the 3-5-2 system as a central defender under coach Benny Johansen .

Later he moved to the Netherlands in the Eredivisie for SC Heerenveen , where he met his compatriot Jon Dahl Tomasson . Initially, Ole Tobiasen was supposed to move to Heerenveen for free in the summer of 1996 , but after a dispute with Karsten Aabrink, the director of FC Copenhagen, who was not informed of the change, SC Heerenveen transferred a sum of 500,000 kroner in order to obtain an immediate change . In Heerenveen Tobiasen was used as a right defender and in a year and a half he played 34 games. His talent was not hidden from Ajax Amsterdam , the record champions and one of the largest clubs in the Netherlands, and so the Ajacieds piloted him to the capital for a transfer fee of 7.5 million crowns. In his first year, Ole Tobiasen won the Dutch championship with Ajax Amsterdam, but due to his knee problems, he only made 24 appearances for the Amsterdam team. In the summer of 2002 he went to AZ Alkmaar , around 40 kilometers from Tobiasen's former club.

Half a year later he returned to his home country to his former club FC Copenhagen. In Copenhagen, Ole Tobiasen was a regular player, provided he was free of injury, and won the Danish championship in both 2003 and 2004. In 2005 it was awarded to Aalborg BK . Half a year later Tobiasen went abroad again, this time to the Norwegian first division promoted Sandefjord Fotball . With the club from the southeast of Norway, he managed to stay up. After the end of his time in Sandefjord, he returned to the Netherlands and joined the second division club MVV Maastricht . He cited his wife's Dutch origins and the will to settle in the country after his career as the reason for the change. In September 2009, Ole Tobiasen was banned from the team after a dispute with his coach and did not return to the team after the coach's dismissal. In the new season Tobiasen was the youth coach at Roda Kerkrade and also played for the amateur club EHC Hoensbroek .

National team

Ole Tobiasen played five games from 1992 to 1993 for the Danish U19 national team . From 1994 to 1997 he ran in 19 games for the U21 team of Scandinavians . On April 23, 1996 Tobiasen played in the 3-0 win in the test match in Nykøbing Falster against Scotland for the only time for the B national team.

Ole Tobiasen made his first appearance for the Danish senior team on September 10, 1997 in a 3-1 win in the World Cup qualifier against Croatia in Copenhagen . He made his sixth and last appearance for the national team on October 14, 1998 in the 1-1 draw in the European Championship qualifier against Switzerland in Zurich , where he also scored a goal.

Career as a coach

After the end of his active career, he was the coach of EHC Hoensbroek from 2012 to 2014, before Ole Tobiasen became youth coach at NAC Breda . He then took up the position of assistant coach at Sparta Rotterdam . The collaboration ended after Dick Advocaat became the new head coach of the Rotterdam team at the beginning of January 2018 . On March 10, 2019, Tobiasen became the new head coach of Almere City FC .