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Bjarne Goldbæk
Personal information
Full name Bjarne Goldbæk
Date of birth (1968-10-06) 6 October 1968 (age 55)
Place of birth Copenhagen, Denmark
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Position(s) Attacking midfielder
Youth career
0000–1987 B 1901
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1987 Næstved IF 17 (4)
1987–1989 FC Schalke 04 74 (8)
1989–1993 1. FC Kaiserslautern 80 (11)
1993–1994 Tennis Borussia Berlin 24 (5)
1994–1996 1. FC Köln 30 (2)
1996–1998 F.C. Copenhagen 74 (16)
1998–2000 Chelsea 29 (5)
2000–2003 Fulham 85 (6)
2003–2005 Rot-Weiss Essen 61 (9)
Total 474 (56)
International career
1987–1988 Denmark U-21 5 (0)
1987–2001 Denmark 28 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bjarne Goldbæk (born 6 October 1968) is a Danish former professional footballer and current sports pundit for Eurosport. He played for a number of foreign clubs, including Chelsea and Fulham in England and several clubs in Germany. He most prominently won the 1990 German Cup tournament and 1990–91 Bundesliga championship with 1. FC Kaiserslautern. For the Denmark national football team, Goldbæk was capped 28 times, and he was a part of the Danish squads for the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000 tournaments.

He is currently working as a football agent, and as an occasional football commentator on Eurosport during Bundesliga matches.

Club career

Born in Copenhagen, Goldbæk started his career with Danish club B 1901, before he was snapped up by the top-flight Danish 1st Division club Næstved IF in 1987.[1] He quickly moved abroad to play for Schalke 04 of the Bundesliga in September that year. In December 1989, Goldbæk changed clubs to Bundesliga rivals 1. FC Kaiserslautern, where he won the German Bundesliga championship in the 1990–91 season. He further played for Tennis Borussia Berlin and 1. FC Köln in Germany, before returning to Denmark to play for F.C. Copenhagen in 1996.

At F.C. Copenhagen, he quickly became a mainstay in the team, and he was awarded the 1998 F.C. Copenhagen Player of the Year award. Following good displays and a goal scored in two UEFA Cup Winners' Cup matches against Chelsea,[2][3] he joined them in November 1998 for a fee of £330,000, in a deal that sent fellow Dane Brian Laudrup from Chelsea to Copenhagen.[3][4] Goldbæk originally made a big impression when he moved to Stamford Bridge, but was not in favour with Chelsea's manager Gianluca Vialli, who tried to off-load him to Birmingham City and Nottingham Forest. He struggled to hold down a regular rotation place at Chelsea, before Fulham snatched him from Chelsea in January 2000, at the cost of £650,000.[5] He made his Fulham debut in January 2000, a 1–0 home defeat at the hands of Grimsby Town.[6] However, he soon became an important player, as Fulham won the English First Division crown in the 2000–01 season. As Fulham manager Jean Tigana's team strengthened, it appeared Goldbæk's future was becoming bleak at the club.[7] He made just 17 appearances in the 2001–02 season.[8] However, he started the next campaign in the picture, as he came on as a substitute in the Intertoto Cup game against FC Haka from Finland in early July 2002.[9] As a result, Goldbæk would sign a one-year contract extension.[10]

He left Fulham to play for Regionalliga club Rot-Weiss Essen in 2003.[11] Goldbæk justified his move by stating that he had moved with his family into a house located in the nearby town of Gladbeck, and the support Rot-Weiss Essen commanded by regularly having 10.000 spectators at their home games .[12] He was the team captain when the club earned promotion to the 2. Bundesliga in 2004, but as Rot-Weiss Essen were relegated to the Regionalliga again the following year, Goldbæk retired his active career in summer 2005.

International career

Goldbæk made his debut for Denmark on 18 November 1987, in a 1988 Olympic Games qualifier against the West Germany Olympic national team, which ended in a 1–0 defeat.[13]

Honours

1. FC Kaiserslautern
F.C. Copenhagen
Chelsea
Fulham

Individual

Career statistics

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Club performance League Cup League Cup Continental Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Denmark League Danish Cup League Cup Europe Total
1987 Næstved IF Danish 1st Division 17 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 4
Germany League DFB-Pokal Other Europe Total
1987–88 Schalke 04 Bundesliga 25 3 4 2 0 0 0 0 29 5
1988–89 2. Bundesliga 33 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 33 2
1989–90 19 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 20 4
1989–90 Kaiserslautern Bundesliga 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1990–91 22 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 24 4
1991–92 24 2 2 0 0 0 3 1 29 3
1992–93 28 5 1 0 0 0 5 0 34 5
1993–94 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1993–94 Tennis Borussia Berlin 2. Bundesliga 24 5 3 0 0 0 0 0 27 5
1994–95 1. FC Köln Bundesliga 14 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 16 0
1995–96 16 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 2
Denmark League Danish Cup League Cup Europe Total
1996–97 Copenhagen Danish Superliga 32 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 7
1997–98 30 6 0 0 0 0 4 0 34 6
1998–99 12 3 0 0 0 0 4 2 16 5
England League FA Cup League Cup Europe Total
1998–99 Chelsea FA Premier League 23 5 6 0 0 0 0 0 29 5
1999–2000 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
1999–2000 Fulham First Division 18 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 19 3
2000–01 43 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 44 2
2001–02 FA Premier League 13 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 17 1
2002–03 11 0 3 1 1 0 3 0 18 1
Germany League DFB-Pokal Other Europe Total
2003–04 Rot-Weiss Essen Regionalliga 30 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 7
2004–05 2. Bundesliga 31 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 32 2
Total Denmark 91 20 8 2 91 20
Germany 269 35 16 3 9 1 297 39
England 114 11 13 1 3 0 3 0 133 12
Career total 474 66 29 4 3 0 20 3 521 71

International

[13]

Denmark national team
Year Apps Goals
1987 1 0
1988 0 0
1989 0 0
1990 0 0
1991 3 0
1992 1 0
1993 3 0
1994 0 0
1995 0 0
1996 2 0
1997 0 0
1998 2 0
1999 9 0
2000 5 0
2001 2 0
Total 28 0

After a career

Goldbæk is now licensed consultant for players and coaches.

References

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External links

Awards
Preceded by F.C. Copenhagen Player of the Year
1998		 Succeeded by
David Nielsen
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