Steffen Højer

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Steffen Højer
Personnel
birthday May 22, 1973
place of birth Denmark
size 178 cm
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1992-1996 Viborg FF
1996-1999 Aalborg BK 81 (22)
1999-2000 Brescia Calcio 0 0(0)
2000 FC Midtjylland 11 0(3)
2000-2003 Viborg FF 62 (12)
2003-2005 Odense BK 79 (48)
2005-2007 Viborg FF 74 (26)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1994-1995 Denmark U-21 11 0(7)
1996 Denmark 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Steffen Højer (born May 22, 1973 ) is a former Danish football player . The striker , who made an international appearance for the Danish national team in 1996 , won the Danish championship once. Between 2004 and 2006 he was the top scorer in the Danish Superliga three times in a row , in which he played 339 games and scored 125 goals.

Career

Højer made his debut in 1992 for his hometown club Viborg FF in the second class 1st division , with which he was promoted to the Superliga in the summer. In the autumn round of the Superliga season 1993/94 he was in seven of the 18 season games on the field, but remained without scoring and rose with the team around Leif Nielsen , Søren Frederiksen , Claus Struck and Dennis Hansen directly from again. In the summer of 1995 he rose again to the top division with the club, with 16 goals this season in the 1995/96 season he was one of the guarantors of relegation and placed tied with Per Pedersen as second in the championship goalscorer list behind Thomas Thorninger from the runner-up Aarhus GF . This brought him a nomination from coach Bo Johansson for the national team, shortly after the start of the following season he came in the 1-0 win over Sweden on August 14, 1996 as a substitute for Peter Møller to a ten-minute short stint.

Shortly before, Højer had moved to Aalborg BK within the Superliga . Here he formed the attack in particular with Søren Frederiksen and Søren Andersen in the following years. After places in the middle of the table, the club won the championship title in the 1998/99 season under Swedish coach Hans Backe . Despite a declining hit rate in the course of the season, he had attracted international attention and was signed by the Italian club Brescia Calcio from summer 1999. Thereupon his previous club loaned him from the beginning of April to his old club Viborg FF, for which he scored up to a knee injury in four games until the end of the season.

Due to the knee injury, Højer missed the season opener in Italy, so he found himself as a substitute. After half a year without playing, he returned to Denmark, where he joined the second division club FC Midtjylland . With three goals in nine games, he helped the club to rise to the Super League at the end of the season. However, he himself moved again to his hometown club Viborg FF, where he again formed the storm duo with Søren Frederiksen and scored eleven goals in the 2000/01 season . Under coach Søren Kusk, however, he moved more and more into midfield in the following season, which also affected his hit rate.

In the winter of 2003, Højer, whose last league goal was at the end of August 2001, moved to Odense BK within the Superliga . There he acted again as a striker and was immediately successful in his first league game for the new club as a goalscorer when he ushered in the 2-0 home win against FC Copenhagen with the opening goal . By the end of the season he scored eight goals in 15 games this season for Odense BK. He maintained this quota in the following years: while he was the top scorer in 31 games in the top scorer in the top Danish division in the 2003/04 season with 19 goals - on a par with his teammates Mwape Miti , Mohamed Zidan from FC Midtjylland and Tommy Bechmann from Esbjerg fB He succeeded in the 2004/05 season with 20 goals in 33 games and in the 2005/06 season with 16 goals in 31 games. He returned to Viborg FF in summer 2005, where he ended his active career at the end of 2007 and switched to management.

After Lars Søndergaard was dismissed as head coach at Viborg FF at the end of November 2010, sports director Højer and his former playmate Søren Frederiksen took over as coach until the end of the 2010/11 season. He then returned to management, but left the club in summer 2012. In summer 2013, he returned to the club as a junior coach.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bold.dk: "Steffen Højer tilbage i Viborg" (accessed on September 1, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Højer, Steffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1973