Hjalte Nørregaard

Hjalte Bo Nørregaard (2008)

Hjalte Bo Nørregaard ( born April 8, 1981 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish footballer who plays for Aarhus GF since January 2011.

Career

Association

Hjalte Bo Nørregaard began his career at Kjøbenhavns Bold club before he was pulled in the first team of FC Copenhagen in 1999. A year earlier, was honored as the best U-19 Youth Players with Arla's Talentpris. After he came only seven appearances in his first season, he played in the next two years not a single League game. Only in the 2002/2003 season, he came back into use, this season played 18 league games, most of substitute appearances, scoring two goals. On 18 June, he scored the most important goal of his life. In Brøndby Stadium against Brøndby IF he scored the winning goal in the 1-0 93 minutes. Since then, the stadium is called by the Copenhagen fans " Hjalte Park". Through this gateway, the FC Copenhagen secured the Danish Superliga 2002/ 03. In the following season, he completed all 32 league games ( two goals) and managed to get his team to defend the title, thus winning the Danish Superliga 2003/ 04. In addition, the FC won this season and the final of the Danish Football Cup. In the final game they won against Aalborg BK through the gate by Morten Bisgaard in the 28th minute 1-0. Nørregaard got the award for most aggressive player of the tournament. During the 2004/05 season he scored seven goals this season, underlining its claim to a permanent place. He was chosen by the fans of FC Copenhagen Player of the Year by his good performances.

In July 2005, moved Nørregaard free transfer to Dutch club SC Heerenveen. But his stay in Heerenveen was not crowned with success, coach Gertjan Verbeek had hoped for much more from the central midfielder Torgefahr, in only sixteen games he scored only two goals on 13 game against RBC Roosendaal and on matchday 26 against NAC Breda.

For this reason, the midfielder moved in 2006 back to FC Copenhagen. With his club he was able to qualify for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League 2006 /07. There one was drawn in a group with Celtic, Benfica and Manchester United. In the Champions League, FC Copenhagen was at home a power. Against Lisbon was reached 0-0 against Manchester they managed a 1-0 victory through the gate of Marcus Allbäck a sensation and was sent Celtic 3-1 home. However, all three away games were lost. At the end of Copenhagen missed on goal difference compared to Benfica just a place in the UEFA Cup. In addition to the fairly good performance in the Champions League, winning the Danish Superliga 2006/ 07 came about. In qualifying for the UEFA Champions League 2007 /08 is switched off in the second round Beitar Jerusalem, failed in the third round in turn at Benfica. Then the FC qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Cup. In a group with Lokomotiv Moscow, Atletico Madrid, Aberdeen FC and Panathinaikos Athens only reached the third place and was eliminated together with the locomotive. Moscow. This season Nørregaard scored three goals in 27 games. The Danish Superliga 2007/ 08 had to leave at Aalborg BK and reached only a disappointing third place, thus Copenhagen only played in the UEFA Cup 2008/09. In the first round Nørregaard scored in a 4-0 away win over Cliftonville FC 's first goal and so far the only goal in a European competition. This time it managed the club to the Round of and had to play against Manchester City. The first leg ended 2-2 in parking, the game at the City of Manchester Stadium was lost with 1:2. But the Danish Superliga 2008/ 09 then went back to Copenhagen. However Nørregaard scored only one goal of the season. At the end of the season he was voted by fans for the second time player of the year. For the 2009/10 season, he was promoted from coach Ståle Solbakken captain. After Copenhagen failed to APOEL Nicosia in the playoffs for the UEFA Champions League 2009 /10 was achieved in the group stage with PSV Eindhoven, CFR Cluj and Sparta Prague in the group in second place and thus moved into the next round. In the next round 1:3 defeat against Olympique Marseille was then after two circuits. By winning the Danish Superliga 2009/10 and wins in the qualifiers against BATE Borisov and Rosenborg Trondheim, the club reached since the season 2006/ 07 once again the group stage of the UEFA Champions League 2010/11. In the group with FC Barcelona, ​​Rubin Kazan and Panathinaikos Athens surprisingly reached the second place and thus moved into the second round. However Nørregaard came in only two games available for use and also in the league he managed only on inserts.

During the winter break of the season 2010/11 Nørregaard left the FC Copenhagen and moved to the Viasat Sport Division and joined Aarhus GF, where he signed a three and a half year contract. With the Ostjüten half a year later, he reached the summit in the Danish Superliga.

National

Between 1997 and 1998, denied Nørregaard sixteen caps for the U-16 National Team, the first on 3 September 1997 in a 1-1 draw against the Czech team. His only goal for the U-16 he succeeded on 12 March 1998 against Scotland. In the U-19 Denmark he scored three goals in ten games, two of them on 21 October 1999 in the 5-0 victory over Lithuania. After a game for the U- 20 and two games for the U-21 National Team, played between the 20th and 27 January his first three 'A' matches. However, the friendlies against Honduras, El Salvador and against the United States were all unofficial internationals. On 19 November 2008, he was finally allowed his first official senior international contest. In the 0-1 defeat against Wales in Brøndby, he played the full 90 minutes. Victory scorer for Wales was Craig Bellamy. It was not until 12 August 2009 completed his second international match. In the 1-2 defeat against Chile, he came on in the 79th minute for Jon Dahl Tomasson. On 5 and 9 September he came in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers against Albania and Portugal used.

Achievements

• Super League: 2002/ 03, 2003/ 04, 2006/ 07, 2008/ 09 & 2009/10
• Danish Football Cup: 2003/ 04 & 2008/ 09

• " Arla Talentpris " as the best U-19 youth players: 1999
• " FC Copenhagen Player of the Year ": 2005, 2009
• Induction into the Hall of Fame of FC Copenhagen 2006
• "Danish Cup Fighter": 2004