Niclas Jensen

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Niclas Jensen
Personal information
Full name	Niclas Christian Monberg Jensen
Date of birth	August 17, 1974 (1974-08-17) (age 33)
Place of birth	Copenhagen, Denmark
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Left back
Club information
Current club	F.C. Copenhagen
Number	3
Youth clubs
	B.93
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1992-1996 1996-1998 1998-2002 2002-2003 2003-2005 2005-2007 2007-present	Lyngby FC PSV Eindhoven F.C. Copenhagen Manchester City Borussia Dortmund Fulham F.C. Copenhagen	092 (7) 005 (0) 122 (7) 051 (2) 043 (2) 016 (0) 031 (0)
National team2
1990-1991 1992-1993 1994-1996 1998-present	Denmark U-17 Denmark U-19 Denmark U-21 Denmark	015 (2) 011 (0) 018 (2) 062 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19 April 2008. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 2 June 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Niclas Christian Monberg Jensen (born August 17, 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish professional football player, who plays as a left back for F.C. Copenhagen in the Danish Superliga. He has played more than 60 games for the Danish national team, and played for Denmark at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2004 European Championship.

He is the older brother of fellow Danish national team player Daniel Jensen.

Contents 1 Club career 1.1 Early career 1.2 Copenhagen 1.3 Manchester City 1.4 Borussia Dortmund 1.5 Fulham 2 International career 3 Honours 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Club career

[edit] Early career

Jensen started playing football for Danish club Boldklubben 1893 (B.93). He moved on to Lyngby Boldklub in the Danish Superliga championship in 1992. While at Lyngby, he debuted for the Danish under-21 national team, and he won the 1995 Danish Under-21 Player of the Year award.

When the management of Lyngby changed in 1996, Jensen was one of several players sold by the leaving CEO Flemming Østergaard. Niclas Jensen moved abroad to play for Dutch team PSV Eindhoven in August 1996. After two seasons of little playing time for the club, he returned to Denmark to play for F.C. Copenhagen (FCK) in 1998, brought in by FCK's new CEO Flemming Østergaard.

[edit] Copenhagen

Jensen went on to play five years for F.C. Copenhagen, with whom he won the 2000-01 Danish Superliga championship. With right wingback Thomas Rytter, he formed a wingback duo that was known as the best in the Superliga. In January 2002, he was sold to Manchester City in the English 1st Division, in a transfer deal worth DKK 7.5 million.

[edit] Manchester City

Jensen played the remaining 18 games of the season, as Manchester City won promotion to the top-flight FA Premier League.

Returning from the 2002 FIFA World Cup, he played 33 of Manchester City's 38 games in the 2002-03 Premiership season, as the club finished 9th in the league.

[edit] Borussia Dortmund

Niclas Jensen was bought by German team Borussia Dortmund in July 2003. He started well for Dortmund, but Jensen was eventually relegated to the role of substitute for Brazilian wingback Dedé.

[edit] Fulham

After two years at Dortmund, he moved back to England in July 2005, to play for Fulham in the FA Premier League. In the first half of the 2005-06 season, he was a Fulham regular. When the club signed a loan deal with English international defender Wayne Bridge in January 2006, Jensen was dropped from the Fulham first team after the January 14, 2006 Premiership game against Newcastle United. He would have to wait until September 2006, before he played his next Fulham game, being substituted off in a Football League Cup game against Wycombe Wanderers. With only one competitive game for Fulham in almost a year, he got an ultimatum by national manager Morten Olsen on January 3, 2007, to either find himself a new club or be dropped from the Danish national team.^[1] Strong rumours suggested the solution was a move "home" to F.C. Copenhagen,^[2] and his return to FCK was published on January 11, 2007.^[3]

[edit] International career

While at B.93, Jensen made his debut for the Danish youth national teams in August 1990 and played 3 matches at the 1991 UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship.

While at F.C. Copenhagen, he was called up for the Danish national team under national team coach Bo Johansson. Jensen debuted in a friendly match against the Czech Republic in August 1998. Following his debut, he would have to wait more than two years to play his second national team game. Under new national team coach Morten Olsen, Jensen was recalled for a friendly match against Germany in November 2000.

He was selected for the Danish national team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, and in the progress of the tournament, he displaced Jan Heintze as Denmark's starting left wingback.

In his time at Dortmund, Jensen was selected to represent Denmark at the 2004 European Championship. He played Denmark's first three matches at the tournament, before being replaced by Kasper Bøgelund for Denmark's final game before elimination.

While at Fulham, Jensen got an ultimatum by national manager Morten Olsen on January 3, 2007, to either find himself a new club or be dropped from the Danish national team ^[4] after he played only one game for a while

[edit] Honours

• 1995 Danish Under-21 Player of the Year
• 2001 Danish Superliga
• 2007 Danish Superliga

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Danish national team profile
• F.C. Copenhagen profile
• Niclas Jensen career stats at Soccerbase
• German career statistics
• National Football Teams career statistics

v • d • e Denmark squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup 1 Sørensen • 2 Tøfting • 3 Henriksen • 4 Laursen • 5 Heintze • 6 Helveg • 7 Gravesen • 8 Grønkjær • 9 Tomasson • 10 Jørgensen • 11 Sand • 12 N. Jensen • 13 Lustü • 14 C. Jensen • 15 Michaelsen • 16 Kjær • 17 Poulsen • 18 Løvenkrands • 19 Rommedahl • 20 Bøgelund • 21 Madsen • 22 Christiansen • 23 Nielsen • Coach: Olsen

v • d • e Denmark squad - UEFA Euro 2004 1 Sørensen • 2 Bøgelund • 3 Henriksen • 4 Laursen • 5 N. Jensen • 6 Helveg • 7 Gravesen • 8 Grønkjær • 9 Tomasson • 10 Jørgensen • 11 Sand • 12 Kahlenberg • 13 Krøldrup • 14 C. Jensen • 15 D. Jensen • 16 Skov-Jensen • 17 Poulsen • 18 Priske • 19 Rommedahl • 20 Perez • 21 Madsen • 22 Andersen • 23 Løvenkrands • Coach: Olsen

v • d • e F.C. Copenhagen – current squad 1 Christiansen • 2 Pospěch • 3 Jensen • 4 Nørregaard • 5 Laursen • 6 Würtz • 7 Aílton • 9 Nordstrand • 10 Grønkjær • 13 Hutchinson • 14 Gravgaard • 15 Antonsson • 17 Wendt • 18 Júnior • 22 Bertolt • 23 W. Kvist • 24 Sionko • 25 Zanka • 26 Hansen • 27 Neestrup • 28 Laudrup • 29 L. Qvist • 41 Coe • Manager: Solbakken