Peter Nielsen (soccer player)

Peter Nielsen
Personnel
birthday	3rd June 1968
place of birth	Copenhagen ,  Denmark
size	180 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1987-1989	Fremad Amager
1990-1992	Lyngby BK	67 (29)
1992-1997	Borussia M'Gladbach	101 (4)
1997-1999	FC Copenhagen	55 (8)
1999-2002	Borussia M'Gladbach	88 (0)
2002-2004	FC Copenhagen	45 (6)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1992-2002	Denmark	10 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2006-2008	FC Copenhagen (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Peter Nielsen (born June 3, 1968 in Copenhagen , Denmark ) is a former Danish football player.

Career

The midfielder began his career with Fremad Amager and became Danish football champion in 1992 with Lyngby BK Copenhagen, at the same time he was named Denmark's Footballer of the Year 1992 and took part under coach Richard Møller Nielsen , albeit without playing a final match, at the football tournament held in Sweden European Championship , which ended extremely successfully for the Danes (who jumped in for the previously suspended Yugoslavia ) with a 2-0 win over Germany . During his career, Nielsen completed a total of 10 full international matches (1 goal) for his home country, with between his 6th international match (November 9, 1996 in Copenhagen against France ) and his 7th international match (15 August 2001 in Nantes again against France) there was a break of several years.

During the European Football Championship in 1992 , Nielsen announced his move to the German Bundesliga with Borussia Mönchengladbach . Under the coaches Jürgen Gelsdorf , Bernd Krauss and Hannes Bongartz , he played in Mönchengladbach until June 30, 1997 and completed 101 Bundesliga games (4 goals) for Borussia , although he was repeatedly thrown back by absurd injuries and often because of the status of a substitute player did not get out. In 1995 he was a member of the Mönchengladbach squad who won the DFB Cup with a 3-0 win over VfL Wolfsburg in Berlin . In the final, however, Nielsen was not used.

On July 1, 1997, Nielsen joined the Danish first division club FC Copenhagen , which was only formed in 1992 , where he remained a regular midfield player until June 30, 1999 as team captain. After Borussia Mönchengladbach's relegation from the Bundesliga, Nielsen, who did not renew his expiring contract in Copenhagen, returned to his ex-club and helped under the coaches Rainer Bonhof and Hans Meyer, with 4 goals in 63 second division games and at times as team captain Borussia was able to return to the Bundesliga for the 2001/02 season. By the end of his contract on June 30, 2002, he completed another 25 games for Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga, and in the end came to 126 appearances (4 goals) in the top German league.

After he originally wanted to end his active career on June 30, 2002 and several attempts by those responsible in Mönchengladbach had failed to hire him as a "player on demand" living and training in Denmark beyond June 30, Nielsen revised his original plans and signed again as a player with FC Copenhagen . With this he won the Danish championship in the 2002/03 season, before he finally ended his active career on December 31, 2003 and was hired as a coach on January 1, 2004 by the Danish second division club B.93 Copenhagen . He gave up this activity at the beginning of the 2004/05 season and was integrated into the administration at FC Copenhagen.