Michael Gravgaard

Michael Julius Gravgaard ( born April 3, 1978 in Randers ) is a former Danish football player.

Club career

The aerially strong central defender played in his youth at Spentrup IF. From 1996 to 2002 he played for Randers Freja and then to 2005 in Viborg FF, for which he - used partly as a center forward - scored 18 goals in 94 games. He then joined for FC Copenhagen and then the French first division club FC Nantes.

On 1 February 2009, the Hamburger SV announced that he has Gravgaard loaned until the end of the season; he intended to replace Bastian Reinhardt (broken rear half kick-off to 2008/ 09) in central defense. His Bundesliga debut Gravgaard 7 February 2009 in an away game of HSV against Karlsruher SC. The HSV was in June 2009 that Gravgaard is no obligation and will therefore return to FC Nantes again. After the 2009/10 season, in which he could not make a play for FC Nantes, he finished his career. On 4 August 2010, but he denied that he was sporting an invalid.

On January 6, 2011, he finally ended his career.

National

His first game for Denmark he made on 17 August 2005. During sensational 4-1 victory against England, he made his first goal when he made ​​that 3-0. Even in qualifying for the Football World Cup 2006, he played, where he made two goals ( against Greece and Kazakhstan). The qualification but was missed. He made his last international match on 12 September 2007, in a 4-0 victory over Liechtenstein. A big tournament should be denied him, because you could not qualify for the European Championship 2008. After he showed phased HSV good performances, also speculated about a return of Gravgaard in the national team. Gravgaard himself said that he would like to play again for the national team, but put his focus on the Hamburger SV.

After the end of his time at HSV and injuries, he came back out of the field of view of the national team.

Overall, he came up with 18 matches ( five matches ).

Curiosities

Strange was his crucial role in the return leg of the UEFA Cup semi-final against Werder Bremen in 2009, when he caused a corner kick when the score was 2:1 for Bremen. Actually, he had wanted to play a back-pass to goalkeeper Frank Rost, but the ball touched a ball of paper lying on the field and jumped so unhappy high that Gravgaard could only play the ball with the shin and the ball came uncontrollably for a corner. The resulting corner was transformed Frank Baumann for predetermining end 3:1. In this game beyond Gravgaard score a regular goal for possible 2:2, which the referee but refused to allow recognition.