Thomas Helveg
Thomas Lund Helveg (* June 24, 1971 in Odense ) is a Danish former football player and current coach. He has also stood in 2013 as an assistant coach at Odense BK under contract.
- 4.1 club
- 4.2 national team
Family
Helveg comes from a family footballers. His father played in Denmark's first league and in the B national team. His uncle put on a similar career. His two Jahrer older brother also played in the Danish first division.
Association
Beginnings in Odense
The defender Thomas Helveg already played the first years of his career with his hometown club Odense. In " OB " he played himself in the starting eleven and was achievers. In the years then clubs from abroad were aware of him.
Eleven successful years in Italy
In 1993 he moved abroad and signed Udinese Calcio. Shortly before his move Helveg had long hesitated also because his wife had a job at a university. For this reason, Helveg was built into the contract a clause stating that he may return after three months in Denmark. Helveg played in Udine in the starting eleven. In 1995, Oliver Bierhoff. Helveg was the original sender Bierhoff. He and Bierhoff had share that Udinese Calcio for the first time in club history the leap managed in the European Cup. In 1998 he followed Bierhoff to AC Milan, where already beer Hoffs compatriot and team-mate Christian Goat played. A year later Helveg was with Milan Italian champion and 2003 he won the UEFA Champions League, where he was no longer a regular player at the time of the Champions League win. In the summer of 2003, he moved for a year to local rivals Inter Milan, only to leave the Serie A.
Two and a half years in England and Germany
2004/ 05 he played for Norwich City, which had previously been promoted to the Premier League. After the team's relegation again, which he attributes to "too many players with different ideas about the football," Helveg moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach. At the Club from the Lower Rhine, where already played, among other prominent country men like Allan Simonsen, Henning Jensen, and Ulrik Le Fevre, Helveg was assigned the role of lead player. Looking at his prominent Danish predecessor Helveg commented on his move to Borussia Mönchengladbach in the following words: "Many of my fellow countrymen have done at Borussia Large. I would be happy if I can do that also. " Due to injury, came Helveg in the league with only 13 missions.
Career finale at the home club
End of January 2007 Helveg returned to his homeland and signed in his parent club Odense BK, the Helveg offered a perspective for the future. At the end of 2010 Helveg ended his career. On 4 December 2010, he ran against Aalborg BK last time on in an official match. His last assignment as Active he had on 16 December 2010 in the Europa League game against VfB Stuttgart. From January 2011 Helveg worked as an assistant coach at Odense BK and was in the spring for a few weeks head coach. From summer 2011 to summer of 2013, he returned to the role of assistant coach Troels Bach.
National
For the Danish national team, he was on 20 April 1994 his debut when he was employed in a friendly against Hungary. He played 108 international games in which he scored two goals. He participated with the national team at Euro 1996, the 1998 World Cup, Euro 2000, the 2002 World Cup and Euro 2004, as well as the failed qualification for the 2006 World Cup and Euro 2008. For "Danish Dynamite" Helveg ran for the last time on October 17, 2007, when he was used in the European Championship qualifier against Latvia. On 28 February 2008 Helveg announced his retirement from international football.
Achievements
Association
- Danish Champion: 1989
- Danish Cup Winner: 1991, 1993 and 2007
- Italian Champion: 1999
- Italian Cup Winners' Cup: 2003
- Winner of the UEFA Champions League: 2003
National
- World Cup qualifiers in 1998 and 2002
- European Football Cup in 1996, 2000 and 2004
Others
Helveg speaks Danish, English and German. He learned the German language at school and on television.