Mikkel Beckmann

Mikkel Beckmann 2008

Mikkel Beckmann ( born October 24, 1983 in Lundtoft ) is a Danish football player. He is currently in his home country at FC Nordsjælland under contract.

  • 3.1 In the club
  • 3.2 As a player

Club career

Beckmann began at the age of 4 ½ years of his career in the youth of Brede IF. About Virum Sorgenfri he came BK 2002 B 1903 Copenhagen, where he completed his last season as a youth player.

As a result he got at the age of 19 years at Brønshøj BK his first young - professional contract. In the first half of the season 2003/ 04 he made his debut under coach Bent Christensen in the second highest league in Denmark. Overall, he was the bad relegation-threatened club to six league operations, where he was able to make his first talent samples. Even in the winter break of the season moved coach Christensen in the Danish Second Division to his original club Lyngby BK and pulled at cost Beckmann about the club.

Lyngby BK

In 2001 bankrupt traditional club he managed then the breakthrough in adult football. In eleven back round matches he scored three Torerfolge and six assists. In addition, he was elected Lyngby player of spring.

In the season 2004 /05, Beckmann had been established as right midfielder and celebrated, largely thanks to 22 goals this season by Morten north beach, in third place promotion to the second Danish league.

In the following season he got with Kim Aabech, with whom he had already played for Virum Sorgenfri and B 1903, provided a congenial Offensive partner. In Attacking composite with Aabech and North beach Lyngby then became the strongest offensive team in the league and made as a climber sensation. At the end of the season you missed in third place just under the walkover in the SAS Liga. North beach, which could even improve his goal tally in League Two on 29 goals this season, was then no longer to hold and joined the SAS League to FC Nordsjælland. With the fetched as a substitute for North beach Anders Jochumsen the club's management -actuated then a stroke of luck. Jochumsen integrated seamlessly into the conducting of Beckmann and Aabech offensive game of " Vikingerne " and was charged with 16 goals behind Peter Graulund second scorer. There was also a performance explosion of Aabech of his strike rate of 6 to 15 goals increased. Beckmann as the main template donor from midfield made ​​especially with Aabech a playful symbiosis, whereby the at Lyngby often overused term " " Aabeckman " was launched. The crew managed with a goal difference of 20 and five points ahead of the second placed Aarhus GF sovereign winning the league title in the Viasat Sport Division and the associated return to the SAS League.

Due to the financial bankruptcy after the beginning of the new millennium newly launched club philosophy is to buy expensive players, you then went without veterans in the Erstligasaison. The talented but inexperienced team proved over the entire season as not erstligareif and rose as Table again immediately. Beckmann, now matured to the guide player was noticed until recently with ambitious performance and became one of the few winners. With 8 goals in 26 missions he shone for the first time in his career with Torgefahr and had attracted the interest of several clubs. After a change in the summer break failed due to the high demand release of Lyngby, he ran for 3 games with 2 Torerfolgen in the second league. Thereupon Lyngby agreed surprisingly still with Randers FC on a transfer fee in the amount of just over half a million euros, after which Beckmann was top notch again.

Randers FC

His debut season for Randers was plagued mainly by several small injuries. Immediately after the first championship game against AC Horsens he was suffering from a knee injury that forced him over a month to pause. Then he ran up to the winter break its shape afterwards, it was only recorded three assists and no scoring. In preparing for the second round he was injured then again at the knee and managed thus not to fight for a regular place. Randers played a good second half and finished the season in midfield secured on table in fifth place. Beckmann completed a total of sixteen league games with three Torerfolgen, had not established until recently as a regular force.

In the following season, he finally took his envisaged then a place in midfield from his club and remained injury free. With Marc Nygaard however, was the great performers of the previous year in a long-lasting form of deep and committed as leaders Tobias Grahn and Allan Jepsen disappointed across the board. These failures could not cope with the team and slid into the basement table. For winter break, it was with thirteen points behind knocked off bottom of the table and one of the most promising candidates for relegation.

For the second half mainly Beckmann then presented greatly improved and played a prominent half of the season. With seven goals in fifteen games, six of which play crucial he was almost single-handedly responsible for the comeback of his team and the resulting relegation. In 31 regular season games he scored ten goals and was elected by the club coaches the SAS League best player of the season.

FC Nordsjaelland

In July 2011, Beckmann moved from Randers FC to FC Nordsjaelland after Randers is relegated to the first division. The fee was € 135,000. Beckmann came in his first season to 23 events in which he scored eight goals. These eight goals he had share in the profits of the league title. In the season 2012/13 Beckmann came to the European Cup debut when he was in the starting eleven in the Champions League group stage against Shakhtar Donetsk. Against Juventus Turin on 23 October 2012, he scored his first goal in the competition and his first European goal.

National

Beckmann be considered a late starter at international level for Denmark, since he was drafted in any youth team of his country. In 2008 he made ​​his debut after strong performances for Lyngby under coach Morten Olsen in a 2-1 away win in the friendly against Slovenia in the senior team. He came in 71 minutes for Martin Jørgensen into play.

On 26 March 2008 he was allowed to make his debut in the starting lineup in a 1-1 draw in a friendly against the Czech Republic, but was replaced with the score at 0-0 at half time against Kenneth Perez.

Then he was no longer called into the national team before he was nominated as the biggest surprise in addition to Patrick Mtiliga in the preliminary squad of Denmark for the Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Coach Olsen explained his decision with the outstanding season that Beckmann had completed for his club. Previously, they had only given him an outside chance of a place in the World Cup squad.

Achievements

In the club

  • Super League - up: 2007
  • Danish Championship: Champion 2012

As a player

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