David Nielsen
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | David Jean Nielsen | ||
| Date of birth | 1 December 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Skagen, Denmark | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Lyngby BK (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1982–1992 | Skagen | ||
| 1992–1993 | Frederikshavn | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1996 | OB | 9 | (2) |
| 1996 | → Lyngby (loan) | 13 | (10) |
| 1996–1997 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 13 | (1) |
| 1997–2001 | Copenhagen | 108 | (36) |
| 2000–2001 | → Grimsby Town (loan) | 16 | (5) |
| 2001–2002 | Wimbledon | 23 | (4) |
| 2001–2002 | → Norwich City (loan) | 5 | (5) |
| 2002–2003 | Norwich City | 21 | (3) |
| 2003–2005 | AaB | 40 | (17) |
| 2005–2006 | Midtjylland | 30 | (8) |
| 2006–2007 | Start | 13 | (5) |
| 2007 | OB | 14 | (3) |
| 2008 | → Strømsgodset (loan) | 23 | (9) |
| 2009–2010 | Brann | 33 | (4) |
| 2011 | Fyllingen | 0 | (0) |
| Total | 361 | (112) | |
| National team | |||
| 1992 | Denmark U16 | 3 | (3) |
| 1991–1992 | Denmark U17 | 21 | (14) |
| 1993–1995 | Denmark U19 | 18 | (13) |
| 1996–1997 | Denmark U21 | 8 | (3) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2011 | Løv-Ham (assistant) | ||
| 2011–2013 | Nest-Sotra | ||
| 2014 | Strømsgodset (assistant) | ||
| 2014–2015 | Strømsgodset | ||
| 2015– | Lyngby BK | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 27 May 2015. |
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David Jean Nielsen (born 1 December 1976) is a former Danish professional footballer who is the current manager of Lyngby Boldklub.
He played for a number of Danish clubs, as well as Fortuna Düsseldorf in Germany and English clubs Grimsby Town, Wimbledon and Norwich City. His greatest triumph was the 1997 Danish Cup victory, which he won with Danish club F.C. Copenhagen. He played 46 matches and scored 33 goals for various Danish youth national teams between 1992 and 1997, including eight games and three goals for the Denmark national under-21 football team.
Nielsen has attracted controversy at various times in his career for falling into serious gambling debt, assaulting a team mate and then, in November 2008, admitting matchfixing in a Danish game played in 2004.
Born in Skagen, Nielsen started playing youth football in Skagen IK and Frederikshavn fI. He scored 17 goals in 24 matches for the Danish under-16 and under-17 national teams. He received offers from English club Tottenham Hotspur and Bayern Munich in Germany, but decided to stay in Denmark, as he was brought to OB in the top-flight Danish Superliga in May 1993, 16 years old. Here he became known for his elaborate goal celebration, a round off stretch jump with a backtuck.
He was loaned out to Lyngby FC in January 1996, where he got his national breakthrough with 10 goals in 13 league games. When his Odense contract ran out in the Summer 1996, he moved abroad to play for Fortuna Düsseldorf in the Bundesliga championship. He did not find playing success with the club, and after half a year in Germany, Nielsen moved back to Denmark to play for F.C. Copenhagen in a DEM 600,000 transfer deal in February 1997. He played three and a half years at F.C. Copenhagen, with whom he won the 1997 Danish Cup. He was club top goalscorer in 1998, 1999 and 2000, and was elected 1999 F.C. Copenhagen Player of the Year.
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