Rune Pedersen (footballer)

Rune Pedersen ( born October 9, 1979 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish football player. The goalkeeper is currently at FC Nordsjælland in the Danish Superliga under contract.

Career

Rune Pedersen began his career in the youth of Hvidovre IF before joining the club joined Kjøbenhavns Bold, which has a close cooperation with FC Copenhagen. The Bold Kjøbenhavns club is regarded as reserve team of FC Copenhagen, so Pedersen his professional debut in goal from FCK in August 2000 was when he played for the injured Michael Stensgaard. With FC Copenhagen, he won the league title twice each, but did not play a season as first-choice goalkeeper by because he could not prevail against Magnus Kihlstedt and Thomas Myhre. After two and a half years at FCK, he rejected a new contract offer.

After Pedersen had his contract not renewed in Denmark, he moved to FC Modena, where he remained, however, only six months.

After the short stint in Italy was completed, he moved back to his Danish homeland for Aarhus GF, as a substitute goalkeeper behind Steffen Rasmussen. For the 2005/06 season he joined Nottingham Forest.

After two years in England Pedersen moved to Lyngby BK. Lyngby rose in the first season with Pedersen in the Danish 1st Division from. In 2009, he was loaned to Odense BK, but could not prevail against Roy Carroll himself. When the loan deal ended, he went back to Lyngby, where he managed to climb back into the Super League. During the winter break of 2011/12 Pedersen moved to FC Nordsjælland.

Achievements

With FC Copenhagen:

• Danish title: 2001, 2003

With the Lyngby BK:

• Promotion to the Super League: 2010