Bent Christensen Arensøe
Bent Christensen ( 2004)
Bent Christensen Arensøe (formerly Bent René Christensen, born January 4, 1967 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish football coach and former professional football player. He played in various Erstligavereinen in Europe, six years he had been at Brøndby IF, where he scored a total of 106 goals in 206 games and five times Danish champion. Because of its speed and attack strength of the striker Turbo was called; FC Schalke 04, for whom he scored only eight goals in two Bundesliga seasons, but the fans called him soon Trabi.
Since October 2005 he has been with Brøndby IF as manager: first as a youth coach, and later as assistant coach of the Erstligamannschaft.
Club career
Christensen began his career in 1985 at Brønshøj BK under coach Ebbe Skovdahl. But in the same year the 17 -year-old went to the National League A for Servette Geneva, where he was Swiss champion equal. In 1987 he went on loan back to his home, where he signed a contract with Vejle BK. Later in the year he moved all the way back to the homeland and signed at Brøndby IF, where now Skovdahl was coach. With Brøndby he won the Danish Championships in 1988 and 1989; in this period was also his international debut.
Three times - in 1988, 1990 and 1991 - he was in his time the most successful at Brøndby season scorer in the Danish first division. Under coach Morten Olsen, he reached the semi-finals with Brøndby in 1991 the UEFA Cup. For the 1991/92 season Christensen moved abroad again; Here he wrote including FC Schalke 04, who rose earlier in the Bundesliga. The five -million D-mark transfer made him the most expensive at the time Danish football player. In his two seasons in Gelsenkirchen him the success was denied; the first of his six goals in the season 1991/92 he made in the first minute of the meeting of the 13th matchday against Hansa Rostock. He was nevertheless replaced after 71 minutes for Uwe Leifeld, then the two goals contributed to the 5-0 victory. In his second season, he came in 23 events still only two hits. One of them, however, secured him a " place in the hearts of the miners fans ": on 22 August 1992, he scored, after the opening goal by Günter Schlipper, the second goal in a 2-0 victory in the local derby at Borussia Dortmund.
None of the three coaches in his time Schalke - Aleksandar Ristic, Udo Lattek and Helmut Schulte - he got along. He " needed the counterattack game in which he could throw his speed in the pan. This tactical variant, however, was not then practiced at Schalke. " For the 1993/1994 season he was sent to Greece to Olympiakos Piraeus and borrowed a year later to SD Compostela in the Primera División. The Spaniards bought it in 1995 for Schalke 500,000 D- Mark from. He stayed a total of three successful years at the Galician club before he moved in 1997 to Turkey to Gençlerbirliği. The season in the Süperlig but he did not play to the end; he went back to Denmark and signed again at Brøndby IF, where he was the later Schalke player Ebbe Sand storm colleague. With Brøndby Christensen Arensøe won the 1998 championship and the cup. The following season, he took part with Brøndby in the Champions League. After the 1999/2000 season, he finished his professional career, but took a few games for his boyhood club, the then second division Movers Brønshøj BK.
National
Christensen was appointed in 1989 by coach Sepp Piontek to a tournament in Malta for the first time in the national team; Johnny Mølby, Henrik Larsen and Hans Erfurt he had his first appearance on February 8, 1989 in the match against the hosts. Strange was to Christensen's first game that up to his Substitution 72 minutes two players had the same name on the court - in addition to Turbo also his namesake Bent Egsmark Christensen Lyngby BK, of his second made against Malta of four A- internationals. Both were once more in a B international match in 1996 against Scotland together on the court.
1992 belonged Christensen squad of European Champion. However, he was only in two group matches against England and Sweden for use and had to leave after an injury. He took after winning the title not participate in the celebrations and felt never as European champion.
His national team career ended during his time in Spain with the 0-3 defeat against Sevilla in Spain in the European Championship qualifiers. In a total of 26 games under the Danish flag he met eight times into the opposing goal.
Coaching career
In January 2003, he became head coach of Værløse BK, whom he led to the third tier. In October 2005, it undertook Brøndby IF as coach of the A- Youth ( U -18). Later, he advanced to assistant coach of Erstligamannschaft when he was part of the coaching team at Aurelijus Skarbalius from 1 January 2012.
Achievements
- Swiss Champion: 1985
- Danish champion: 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1998
- Danish Cup winner: 1989, 1998
- European Football Champion: 1992