Morten Bisgaard
Morten Bisgaard ( born June 25, 1974 in Randers, Denmark ) is a former Danish football player. Between 1996 and 2000, he played eight games for the Danish national football team and scored one goal. At club level he was, inter alia, active for Odense BK, Udinese Calcio and FC Copenhagen and Derby County.
Career
Odense BK
Morten Bisgaard started his professional career at the age of 18 years in 1992 in the Danish first division club Odense BK. After he was initially loaned to unterklassige clubs, he managed in the season 1993/94 the breakthrough in Odense. In the UEFA Cup 1994/95 Bisgaard reached with his club after victories against FC Flora Tallinn, Linfield FC and 1.FC Kaiserslautern the knockout stage and met the Spanish side Real Madrid. After a 2-3 home defeat, Odense won the return leg in Madrid 2-0 and drew with it the quarter-finals. Morten Bisgaard was off the bench during the game and scored shortly before the end of the decisive 2-0. In the last eight, the team failed with 0:1 and 0:0 at AC Parma. In the season 1996/97 Bisgaard scored 16 goals in 33 games and played his best ever season. At this time he was also the first time appointed to the Danish national football team. In 1998, Morten Bisgaard in the Italian Serie A for Udinese Calcio.
Udinese Calcio
The first season in Italy was unsatisfactory, Bisgaard came in only three games for use. The following year, he played 20 league games and scored one goal in Serie A 1999/2000 and was subsequently appointed to the levy of the Danish national team for the Euro 2000 in the Netherlands and Belgium. He played two games, but both ended in defeat for his team. After another season in Italy, he moved back to Denmark in 2001 and played for FC Copenhagen.
FC Copenhagen
His time in the Danish capital club should be the most successful in his career. In the seasons 2002/ 03 and 2003/ 04 he was with his club each Danish football champions. In addition, he won the 2004 Danish Cup. Bisgaard played in three years 74 league games for FC Kopengahen and scored ten goals. After the successful 2003/04 season with two titles, he moved to England to Derby County.
Derby County
Derby had until 2002 played in the Premier League and has since missed the resurgence in the highest English league. However Together with his team-mates Lee Camp, Tom Huddlestone and Grzegorz Rasiak also initially could Bisgaard not achieve this goal. In the first season 2004/ 05 the team missed the fourth place and a subsequent off in the play-offs to rise only slightly. After a disappointing 2005 / 06 with number 20, Derby County reached in 2006/ 07 under new coach Billy Davies by the third place, the first play-off round. There, the team switched from the Southampton FC to a 1-0 win in the subsequent final at Wembley against West Bromwich Albion and rise to the Premier League 2007 /08. After the season, the 33 -year-old Bisgaard moved back to Denmark to finish there at Odense BK his career after two more years.
Title
- Danish champion: 2002 / 03, 2003 /04
- Danish Cup winner: 2004