Jørgen Kristensen

Jørgen Kristensen (born 12 December 1946), nicknamed Troldmanden (the Wizard), is a Danish former football player[1] who played professionally for a number of foreign clubs and won the 1974 UEFA Cup with Dutch club Feyenoord Rotterdam. He played as an attacking midfielder or winger, and was one of the most technical ballplayers in Danish football. He played 19 matches and scored three goals for the Denmark national football team.

Jørgen Kristensen
Personal information
Full name Jørgen Kristensen
Date of birth (1946-12-12) 12 December 1946
Place of birth Hedehusene, Denmark
Position(s) Winger
Youth career
Hedehusene
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1967–1968 Køge Boldklub 10
1968 Detroit Cougars 27 (9)
1968–1972 Sparta 113 (12)
1972–1976 Feyenoord 134 (43)
1976–1978 Hertha BSC 45 (8)
1978 Næstved IF
1978–1980 Chicago Sting 64 (12)
1980 Tulsa Roughnecks 11 (1)
1981 Calgary Boomers 28 (3)
1981–1986 Wichita Wings (indoor) 224 (74)
1986–1987 Kansas City Comets (indoor) 17 (5)
National team
1971–1978 Denmark 19 (3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Biography

Born in Hedehusene, he started playing football with a local team. He moved to Køge Boldklub at the age of 20, where he played for a year, before moving abroad to play for American team Detroit Cougars. He joined Dutch club Sparta Rotterdam, for whom he made his debut for the Denmark national team in June 1971. He moved to Sparta's inner-city rivals Feyenoord Rotterdam, and was eventually dropped from the Danish national team in November 1972. He was a part of the Feyenoord team which won the 1974 UEFA Cup, but despite playing for a successful team, he was not recalled for the Danish national team. Partly because the national team had prolific attacking players like Henning Jensen, Ulrik le Fevre, Per Røntved and not least Allan Simonsen. And partly because Kristensen had trouble in getting the time off to travel home to Denmark to play for the national team.

He moved back to Denmark to play for Køge again, and was recalled for the Danish national team in August 1976. He moved abroad once more, to play for German team Hertha BSC in September 1976. With Hertha, he finished in third place of the 1976 German Bundesliga championship and reached the 1977 German Cup final. In 1978, he returned to Denmark, to play for Næstved IF. At the end of his Danish career, he moved to the United States to play indoor soccer, playing for Wichita Wings and the Kansas City Comets.

References
  1. "Jørgen Kristensen". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
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