Frank Arnesen

Frank Arnesen ( born September 30, 1956 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish football official and former football player.

Career as a player

Association

Arnesen began his career during his school days at Fremad Amager. After his graduation in 1975, he joined the Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam. After a second place in the 1975/76 season he won in the 1976/77 season the Dutch championship; This success was repeated in 1979 and 1980. In 1979 he also won the Dutch Cup in addition to the championship.

For the 1981/82 season Arnesen moved to Spanish club Valencia. In two years, however, no title could be won. For these reasons, he returned after two years back in the Benelux region and signed the Belgian first division and then reigning UEFA Cup winners Anderlecht, which played with Morten Olsen, Kenneth Brylle and Per Frimann three other Danes. After the RSC Anderlecht had missed out in the 1983/84 season, they won the Belgian championship in the following season.

After two years in Belgium Arnesen returned to the Netherlands and signed with PSV Eindhoven. With Jan Heintze, another player from Denmark played at the club. Until 1988, Arnesen won with PSV Eindhoven three Dutch league titles and the Dutch Cup. In 1988, he won with the team the European Champions Cup, his biggest success of his career. However, in the final he was not there. In the same year he finished his career.

National

On October 5, 1977 Arnesen first played for the national team of Denmark. At 0-1 in Malmo Sweden against he was in the starting. At that time, the national team was unsuccessful in skills to major tournaments ( EM / WM). This changed when Sepp Piontek 1979 coach of the Danes was. 1983 qualified one for the European Championship 1984. Arnesen came here with the national semi-finals, where they lost out on penalties to Spain. A year later they qualified for the World Cup 1986, which the first World Cup finals in Denmark ever meant. At the World Cup they sat down in the group stage before sensationally favorites Germany as first in the group by. In the final group game against Germany Arnesen was shown a red card and was therefore locked in the second round against Spain. He made his last international match on June 3, 1987 at 1-1 against Czechoslovakia. Overall, he came up with 52 matches (14 matches ).

Career as a functionary and coaches

After ending his playing career Arnesen worked as an assistant coach at PSV Eindhoven. From 1994 to 2004 he was director of sport. During this time he was responsible for the obligations of Ronaldo, Arjen Robben, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Eidur Gudjohnsen and Park Ji-sung. In 2004 he was manager of Tottenham Hotspur, the club but left after a year and was junior manager and chief scout at Chelsea. In May 2008 he was also appointed to the board of the association. In the 2009/10 season he worked there also as sports director.

In February 2011, Arnesen signed a contract on July 1, 2011 as the sports director and board member at Hamburger SV. The agreement was concluded for a period up to 30 June 2014; He was accompanied by the chief scout of Chelsea FC, Lee Congerton, who took over the role of Technical Director in Hamburg. His new job as sports director and board member of HSV occurred Arnesen in consultation with his old employers Chelsea ahead on 23 May 2011.

10 October 2011 Arnesen was temporarily in addition to his post as head coach of Bundesliga Club Sport instead of the previously furloughed Michael Oenning. He managed the team until 16 October 2011; Thorsten Fink then followed him as the new coach. In the Bundesliga match against SC Freiburg, he led the HSV to a 2-1 success.

After the 2012/13 season, the HSV parted amicably by Arnesen, whose contract had been valid until 2014. The reasons for the association called " financial considerations " and " different ideas about the long-term orientation of the athletic association".

On 30 January 2014, the Ukrainian first division side Metalist Kharkiv announced that Arnesen will take up his post on February 1, 2014 as the new sporting director and a contract will receive up to 30 June 2016. Already on March 7, 2014 presented Arnesen his office due to the political situation in Ukraine is available.

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In 1988 Arnesen with the Danish national team and the Danish band Rocazino a song for the European Championships on.

Arnesen's family was settled after the End of career in the Netherlands; his twin daughters ( b. 1976 ) and the youngest daughter (* 1988) were born in the Netherlands. His son, born in Spain (* 1982 ) also grew up in the Netherlands. In the season 2011/12 he was active for HSV as a scout for the Benelux region.

In addition to Danish Arnesen speaks also German, Dutch, English, French and Spanish.