Per Frandsen

Per Frandsen ( born February 6, 1970 in Copenhagen ) is a retired Danish footballer. He currently trains the Danish second division club HB Køge.

Career

Association

Frandsens professional career began at Boldklubben 1903 in his hometown of Copenhagen, where he came in 25 Premier League matches in 1990 are used. Even at 20 years was the attacking midfielder but abroad; in the French Division 1, he played from 1990 to 1994 at the Lille OSC. In these four years he was promoted to regular player and scored 19 goals in 109 league games.

For the 1994/95 season he moved back to Denmark; in his now for FC Copenhagen merged former club he played two seasons before he was in England at Bolton Wanderers his footballing home. In the first season he was able to celebrate with the Trotters promotion to the Premier League, to which he contributed with five goals in 41 games. At the end of the 1997/98 season, however, was the renewed descent. After another season in the First Division Frandsen moved during the 1999/2000 season for League rivals Blackburn Rovers, but returned to this season back to Bolton. He led the team in the 2000/ 01 season again in the Premier League, in Bolton in the lower regions of the table was at home initially, at the end of the season 2003/ 04, which surprisingly was eighth.

For the season 2004 /05 Frandsen moved to Wigan Athletic, where he took nine more times in the Football League Championship, before he ended his career in early 2005 after an injury.

National

Frandsens international career in the Danish U-19 national team began April 28, 1987 with a 1-1 draw in their European Championship qualifier against peers from Iceland; five times he came to the U-19 in that year are used. From 1989 to 1992 he played in the U- 21 team that reached the semi-finals of Euro 1992. Subsequently, he was also in the squad of the team at the Olympic Games. Overall, he came up with 21 missions in the Danish U -21, but he scored eight goals.

Already on 30 May 1990 Richard Møller Nielsen him coach had first used in the senior team. In Gelsenkirchen Park Stadium, he came to a Substitutes for Jan Bartram in a 0-1 defeat against the Mannschaft to a short-term use of ten minutes. He was in 1990 and 1991 used by Møller Nielsen as a substitute, before Frandsens international career seemed already finished two more times. But more than five years later, when he was already playing in England, coach Bo Johansson enabled him to make a comeback. Frandsen was on 9 November 1996 with the number eight in the starting line in a friendly against France. Subsequently, he also played in the World Cup qualifiers, was appointed to the Danish World Cup squad in 1998 and came in France to two brief appearances against Saudi Arabia and in the second round against Nigeria.

After he was also in the following years to the extended squad and was among other assignments in friendship and qualifiers to the following European and World Championships, but he was neither for the European Championship in the Netherlands and Belgium still for the World Cup in Japan and South Korea to banns called. His last match for Danish Dynamite he made on 2 April 2003 in the European Championship qualifier in the 0-2 defeat against Bosnia- Herzegovina. A goal he could achieve in any of his 23 A- internationals.