Jonathan Richter

Jonathan Richter (born 16 January 1985) is a former Danish football player at the position of midfielder. His last club was FC Nordsjælland with gaming operations in the Danish Superliga.

On 20 July 2009 he was hit during a training session of a flash. As the end of August 2009, his left lower leg was amputated, was also judge career as a football player to be regarded as terminated.

Jonathan Richter has a twin brother named Simon, who is also at FC Nordsjælland active as a professional football player. Unlike Jonathan Simon plays on the position of the defender.

Career

Youth career

Richter began his active career as a football player at youth level of the Copenhagen suburb of Hvidovre Rosenhøj BK. Shortly after his station in Hvidovre joined the young midfielder in the youth department of the BK Frem København, where he held various youth leagues. After the club was financially very weak, because of bankruptcy in 1993, followed by an inverter in the offspring of the well -known Danish Football Association, the Brøndby IF. After a few years on the Danish coast, not far from the capital Copenhagen, it attracted the learned midfielder to his last youth station, the FC Nordsjælland, which was only founded in 1991 in its current form.

When combined with the unusual structure of associations ( the association is also the first teams of various smaller clubs from the region close together and is intent on yet more clubs in this project to participate ) he played until 2005 at the junior and only came as a 20 - year-old in the first team of the club used.

The time at FC Nordsjælland

His professional debut came judge on 16 October 2005 in a 0-0 away draw against AC Horsens, when he came on in the 86th minute for Stephan Petersen. His first professional league goals scored judge on 14 May 2006 in the final round of the season also in a game against AC Horsens. On the way home he steered his team's success in the 90th minute with the goal for 3-0. After a ninth place in the 2005/06 season the 1.78 m wide midfielder has been an increase in the 2006 /07 used and brought it in 16 league games completed on a number of three hits. With the team he reached the fifth place in the final table. Similarly successful, albeit with less inserts, was the following season 2007/ 08, while the judge in 13 championship matches once met. Although he only reached the ninth place in the standings with his team in the final table, the team was able to participate together with the eight -placed Brøndby IF to qualify for the UEFA Cup 2008 /09. It should be noted that Judge was not a single League Nordsjælland use for the whole of 2007; not in the spring season of 2006/ 07 and not in the autumn Championship 2007/08.

With Nordsjælland he qualified after wins against FC TVMK Tallinn ( Estonia) and Queen of the South (Scotland ) for the first round of the UEFA Cup in 2008/ 09, in the clear, the team failed at the Greek representatives Olympiakos Piraeus. In the event of the League Season 2008/ 09 Jonathan Richter made ​​the long hoped for a breakthrough when he came in 26 games for use, scoring four goals. At the end of the season of FC Nordsjælland reached the eighth place in the table. In the following season 2009/10 he came only to a short- minute championship use on 18 July 2009.

Lightning and life thereafter

Tragic occurred on July 20, 2009, as Judge and his team was the stadium at a training session in Hvidovre. During a warm-up game, a lightning struck in Richter's body, threw him to the ground and caused a cardiac arrest. After he was resuscitated, he was taken to the Hvidovre Hospital. As his health did not improve particularly in the following days and weeks, the doctors decided to amputate his lower leg of the left leg, which had been drawn at lightning affected. After the amputation, the health condition Judge improved dramatically. His career as a football player has since been regarded as finished, although Jonathan Richter himself never uttered an official End of career.