Allan K. Jepsen
Jepsen in March 2009
Kierstein Allan Jepsen ( born July 4, 1977) is a former Danish football player. The defender, who made his debut in the Danish national team in 2005, playing since the summer of 2010 when AC Horsens, the newly promoted to the Danish Superliga, the highest football league in the country.
Career
Career Start
Jepsen began playing football at Stilling IF. In the early 1990s he moved to the youth of Brøndby IF. There he discovered the charge of Dansk Boldspil Union and appointed him in the junior national teams of the association. On 14 April 1992 he ran on the side of the later professional player Jon Dahl Tomasson, Ulrich Vinzents and David Nielsen in a 6-0 victory over the Austrian junior national team as part of a junior tournament in Graz for the first time in the national jersey on.
Later Jepsen joined the youth department of Aarhus GF. He returned on May 12, 1994 back in the 1-0 victory over the Finnish junior team in the representative teams and ran the first time in the U-19 national selection. As a result, he stayed in the national team in 1996 and moved also for his club in the squad of the men's team on. On 6 September that year he made his debut as a substitute in the Super League when he came off the bench in the 0-1 away defeat to Odense BK in 81 minutes for Thomas Thor Inger. In 23 stakes in the course of the season 1996/97 he was carrying at the side of Stig Tøfting, Håvard Flo and Martin Jørgensen to reach the third table place behind champions Brøndby IF and Vejle BK.
Luckless in Germany and the Netherlands
Jürgen Wähling, who worked as a talent classifier for Hamburger SV, Jepsen discovered in Denmark. On his advice the North German tradition club engaged the defender. On the 3rd Round of the Bundesliga season 1997/98 he came to his debut in German professional football, as Frank Pagelsdorf einwechselte him in the 1:2 away defeat at FC Hansa Rostock in the half-time for Dirk Weetendorf. Already on following Gameday he stood in the 0-2 defeat against Bayern Munich for the first time in the starting lineup, but could not hold in the long run in the team and came in his first season to twelve league games. Even in his second year for the HSV he stayed only phases in the starting lineup and scored in the 1-2 defeat at Borussia Dortmund on 24 November 1998 his only Bundesliga matches.
In summer 1999, Jepsen left the Hamburger SV to the Netherlands. New Work donors in the Eredivisie was the SC Heerenveen. However, in the defense line around players like Gerard de Nooijer, Johan Hansma and Ronny Venema he was again only a reserve player.
Return to Denmark
After one and a half years at SC Heerenveen Jepsen returned to the Danish Superliga. The defender hired at Aalborg BK in which he established himself as a regular in the defense line on the side of Thomas Bælum and Klebér Saarenpää. In the season 2001/ 02 he competed in all 33 games of the season in the starting lineup, only in the 0-1 defeat against FC Midtjylland he was taken after 76 minutes of coach Peter Rudbæk prematurely dismissed. As a perennial favorite, he recommended for the national team and was on 6 March 2002 in the 0-1 defeat in an unofficial international match on the side of Lars Jacobsen, Thomas Frandsen and Martin Albrechtsen on the defensive for its first use in the National Jersey.
Even under the pledged the following season trainer Poul Erik Andreasen and his successor Erik Hamrén belonged to the tribe Jepsen forces. On the side of Rasmus Würtz, Martin Ericsson and David Nielsen in 2004 he reached the cup final against FC Copenhagen. The game ended with a goal by Morten Bisgaard with a 0-1 defeat, as the capital club, however, was national champion, Jepsen moved his team into the UEFA Cup in 2004/ 05. There he failed with the team in the first round at AJ Auxerre, where he was employed in both games. At the end of the season 2004 / 05, in which he had come in 32 games for use, he came fourth with the club. Moreover, after almost 150 top-flight appearances for the club he got the opportunity to prove themselves in an official international match for the first time. On 2 June 2005 he came on as a substitute for Niclas Jensen in the 71st minute in a 1-0 win over Finland to his "real " national team debut.
Jepsen could not compete in the national team. In his club but he was still a member of the permanent employees. Until the winter break of the season 2005/ 06 he was in 19 of the 20 league games for the club on the field.
Move to Norway and re- return
In March 2006, Jepsen took advantage of a clause in his contract, which he can get for a transfer fee of 2.5 million Danish kroner from his contract, and moved to Norwegian club Vålerenga IF for the reigning Norwegian champions he played during the 2006 all 26 league games. He played himself back into the national team and came on 31 May 2006 in the 0-2 defeat against France for his second international appearance. On the side of Ronny Johnsen, Daniel Fredheim Holm and Kjetil Wæhler he joined with his club to qualify for the UEFA Champions League 2006 /07, but failed to Mladá Boleslav.
In the following two seasons Jepsen was in many parts still for starting eleven. With the team he moved in 2008 to the Cup Final against the master Stabæk IF. With two goals from Mohammed Abdellaoue and Holm scored a 4-1 triumph in which Jepsen standing on the field over the entire playing time.
At the beginning of the 2009 Jepsen came barely to train. Therefore, he left in the summer of the club and returned again to his native country. In Randers FC he signed in June a valid till New Year's Eve 2009 Half- year contract and moved to its connection to Aachen Alemannia until season's end. After 15 appearances in the German second division Jepsen followed again return home, where he end of June 2010 a contract with newly promoted to the Super League, the AC Horsens signed.
After the season 2010/11 Allan Jepsen Kierstein ended his active career.