Jákup Mikkelsen
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jákup Nolsøe Mikkelsen | ||
| Date of birth | 14 August 1970 | ||
| Place of birth | Klaksvík, Faroe Islands | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| KÍ Klaksvík | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1991–1994 | KÍ Klaksvík | 75 | (3) |
| 1995–2001 | Herfølge BK | 136 | (2) |
| 2001–2003 | Molde FK | 11 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Partick Thistle | 5 | (0) |
| 2004 | KÍ Klaksvík | 23 | (0) |
| 2005–2007 | B36 Tórshavn | 97 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | KÍ Klaksvík | 56 | (0) |
| 2010–2014 | ÍF Fuglafjørður | 118 | (0) |
| 2016 | ÍF Fuglafjørður | 1 | (0) |
| Total | 522 | (5) | |
| National team | |||
| 1995–2012 | Faroe Islands | 73 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Jákup Nolsøe Mikkelsen (born 14 August 1970 in Klaksvík) is a Faroese former football goalkeeper who last played for ÍF Fuglafjørður. He made 522 league appearances in representing six clubs in a career spanning 25 years, also representing his country at international level.
A regular member of the Faroe Islands national football team between 1995 and 2013, Mikkelsen won 73 caps, and in playing against Iceland on 16 August 2012 aged 42 years and one day, became the oldest goalkeeper ever to play an international match, the record that has since been surpassed by Colombian Faryd Mondragon.
Mikkelsen is currently a schoolteacher and goalkeeping coach for the Faroe Islands national team. He also sat in the city council of this native town of Klaksvík for one election period. In his youth, he worked as a postman in Klaksvík.
Mikkelsen started at KÍ Klaksvík, where he sometimes was used as an outfield player, before moving abroad to play for several years in Denmark and Norway. After a short spell at Scottish side Partick Thistle he returned to the Faroe Islands. In the 1999/2000 season, he only missed 2 games in Herfølge BK's title winning season, hence becoming the first ever Faroese to win a league championship in any other country than Faroes and he played both games against Rangers in their 2000/2001 Champions League qualifying round and 4 more games in the UEFA Cup that season. He played 136 matches for Herfølge BK. After playing for Herfølge for 5 years Mikkelsen and his team won the Danish Championship.
In early 2010 Mikkelsen signed a deal with Faroese football club ÍF Fuglafjørður.
Having made 118 league appearances for the club, Mikkelsen retired from playing football in November 2014 aged 44, stating that his advanced age had made it impossible for him to continue.
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