Stig Tøfting

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Stig Tøfting

Stig Tøfting (born August 14, 1969 in Århus ) is a former Danish football player .

Career

society

Originally from Aarhus, Stig Tøfting started playing football at ASA Aarhus before joining Aarhus GF's youth . In 1989 he rose to the first team and completed 95 first division games by 1993, in which he scored ten goals. Then Tøfting moved to Germany in the Bundesliga for Hamburger SV . During his first period in Hamburg he only played twelve games (three goals) and so he was awarded to Odense BK in Denmark from 1994 to 1995 and twice to Aarhus GF. The latter finally committed him and so Stig Tøfting played in his native town until 1997. In 1997 he ventured again to Germany, this time to MSV Duisburg , where he immediately became a regular player and in his first year with the zebras reached the final in the DFB Cup , in which the Duisburg lost to FC Bayern Munich . In April 2000 Tøfting returned to Aarhus, but he returned to Hamburg for HSV in the summer of the same year. With the Hanseatic League, where he was able to fight for a regular place, unlike in the 1990s, Stig Tøfting played in the UEFA Champions League 2000/01 , where the Hamburg team was eliminated in the first group stage. After all, they defied the Italian record champions Juventus Turin in the opening game after a 0: 1 and 1: 3 deficit, a 4: 4, in the second leg at the Stadio delle Alpi , HSV won 3: 1. Tøfting was used in both games. The Dane remained a regular under coach Frank Pagelsdorf until he was dismissed; under Pagelsdorf's successor Kurt Jara, Tøfting moved into the second tier.

At the beginning of 2002 he moved to England in the Premier League for the Bolton Wanderers in order to gain match practice for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea , where he wanted to be there. As a result of a prison sentence in Denmark, the club split from Stig Tøfting in 2003; for the club he was used in only 14 games. A short time later he was free again and went to Asia, where he joined Tianjin Teda in China . Only six months later he returned to Aarhus GF, where he was released in December 2004 after a beating attack. In February 2005 Tøfting moved to Sweden to BK Häcken and fought for a regular place there. With three goals in 23 games, he helped keep the Gothenburg league . He then returned to Denmark and joined Randers FC , with whom he won the Danish Cup competition as a second division team in 2006 - it was his third cup win in his career. At the end of 2007 Tøfting ended his active career.

National team

Stig Tøfting played his first game for the Danish national team on January 30, 1993 in a 2-2 draw in the Tempe friendly against the United States in Arizona . After another use on March 31, 1993 in the 1-0 victory in the World Cup qualifier in Copenhagen against Spain , it took three years until Tøfting was part of the Danish squad. At the European Championships in England in 1996 he was part of the Danish squad and completed his third international game with his only tournament appearance in the 3-0 defeat against Croatia ; the Danes were eliminated after the group stage. Two years later, Stig Tøfting was part of the Danish squad at the World Cup in France and played in the group game against the hosts and in the lost quarter-finals against Brazil . After seven appearances in the qualification (including the successful relegation against Israel ) he was also part of the Danish squad at the 2000 European Championships in the Netherlands and Belgium . There Tøfting was used in all group games, but could not prevent the elimination. The fourth and last major tournament of the native Aarhuser with the national team was the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea , for which he was nominated after nine qualifying games. There Denmark reached the round of 16 and Stig Tøfting was used in all four games. After the tournament he resigned from the national team.

Career as a coach

After retiring, he became assistant coach at Randers FC and held the post until 2009. On April 19, 2010, he returned to his home club Aarhus GF and took over the post of assistant coach until the end of the season. However, he could not prevent the club's relegation.

title

Landspokalturneringen : 1992, 1996 (both with Aarhus GF) and 2006 (with Randers FC)

Conflict with the judiciary

Stig Tøfting has had several conflicts with the judiciary in Denmark during his career. In 1999 he was sentenced to 20 days in prison in Aarhus after knocking down a passerby. In June 2002, after returning from the 2002 World Cup, Tøfting struck down the boss in the Copenhagen restaurant “Café Ketchup”. While trying to escape he was arrested by a civil patrol. In October 2002 he was sentenced to four months in prison for this. Because of this, his former English club Bolton Wanderers split from Tøfting in 2003. In July 2003, he was released from prison.

In 2014, the editors of France Football published a list of the “50 world's most problematic football players since the late 1960s”, in which they ranked Tøfting third, in particular because he had repeatedly come into conflict with the law.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.welt.de accessed on June 4, 2010
  2. ^ Beatings in the Café Ketchup . In Spiegel Online , June 24, 2002, accessed June 9, 2012
  3. ↑ Stig Töfting has to go behind bars . In Spiegel Online , October 15, 2002, accessed June 9, 2012
  4. ↑ Töfting has to leave Bolton . In Spiegel Online , November 1, 2002, accessed June 9, 2012
  5. ↑ From jail to China . In Spiegel Online , July 11, 2003, accessed June 9, 2012
  6. ↑ Article “Les fous du stade” in France Football of February 18, 2014, pp. 16-25; on Tøfting on p. 24
personal data
SURNAME Tøfting, Stig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarhus