Thomas Rasmussen

Thomas Rasmussen ( * April 16, 1977 in Frederiksberg, between 1998 and 2004 Thomas Schultz ) is a Danish football player.

Club career

Rasmussen began as a 6 -year-old in Frederiksberg at the club Dalgas playing football. After a year he moved to KB Copenhagen and remained here until 1995. After a brief stopover at Glostrup IF he moved in 1996 to VV St. Truiden Belgium. After three years he returned to his homeland, where he first played for IF Skjold Birkerød and later for Farum BK. 1998 Rasmussen had assumed the name of his wife at the time and was thus early 2004 Thomas Schultz.

In 2003, Rasmussen in the Bundesliga to Hansa Rostock. He was the first Dane who has ever stood in the squad of the Hanseatic League. He took in early 2004, after he was divorced from his wife, back to his birth name Rasmussen. In his first season he reached with Hansa ninth place in the table, the following 2004/05 season, however, ended up on a relegation place. In two years at FC Hansa he played 59 Erstligapartien, scoring seven goals. Although Rasmussen still had a contract until 2006, he wanted to continue to play first-class, left the club. Hansa asked for a transfer fee of 800.000 € and so did not change during the summer break about. Rasmussen thus began the 2005/06 season in the second division squad of the Hanseatic League and came to the first two match days used.

Before the end of the transfer window, however, found a willing prospective payment, so he moved in August 2005 to the Danish champions Brøndby IF. On 28 August 2005 he made ​​his debut in the Super League. On 15 September 2005 he completed his first European Cup game. In 2008, he won with a 3-2 in the finals by Brøndby about Esbjerg fB the Danish Cup.

National

For the Danish national football team played a total of eight times Rasmussen. ( As of 5 February 2010)

On 30 April 2003, he gave as Thomas Schultz in the game against Ukraine his debut for Denmark. He came off the bench by coach Morten Olsen in the 70th minute. Almost a year later, he played his second game against Scotland. Here he came on in the 84th minute. He then came almost four years no longer used. In 2008, he denied then four more games. Against the Czech Republic stood Rasmussen even once in the starting lineup.

Achievements

• Danish Cup winner: 2008