Casper U. Mortensen (born 14 December 1989) is a Danish

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

player for

HSV Hamburg Handball Sport Verein Hamburg is a handball club from Germany, located in Hamburg. Currently, Handball Hamburg competes in the Handball-Bundesliga. The full name in German is ''Handball Sport Verein Hamburg e.V.'' but the club has traditionally b ...

and the Danish national team. He is the younger brother of Danish football player Andreas Ulrich Mortensen.

Career

Ajax København

Casper U. Mortensen won the Danish 1st division with Ajax København and played the

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in the following season. He was a starting player in both season.

Fredericia HK

Casper U. Mortensen changed scenery as he joined

Fredericia HK Fredericia HK is a handball club from Fredericia, Denmark. Currently, Fredericia HK competes in the men's Danish Handball League. The home arena of the team is Fredericia Idrætscenter The club was founded in 1990 on the license of former 5 tim ...

in the 2009–2010 season, on a two-year contract. Mortensen was voted player of the year while playing for

Viborg HK

Mortensen came to

Viborg HK Viborg HK (Viborg Håndbold Klub) is the name of a Danish handball club from Viborg. The club has many teams for both women and men, but especially the professional women's team is one of the most successful in Danish and European handball sin ...

in the 2011–2012 season, where he was given jersey number 20. Mortensen ended a great first season, where he scored 145 goal in 22 matches. This made him number 2 on the top scorer list, making him the league player with the highest scoring average pr match, as he played 6 matches less than other league player due to injuries.

Bjerringbro-Silkeborg

After just one season with

, Mortensen joined Bjerringbro-Silkeborg, on a three-year contract, in the 2012–2013 season. He was given jersey number 10. Mortensen played a good first season with Bjerringbro-Silkeborg he showed promising signs. He made his debut in the

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, where he made team of the week. He became the top scorer for Bjerringbro-Silkeborg making 61 goals in 12 matches. Bjerringbro-Silkeborg lost the Round of 16 to

FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly referred to as Barcelona and colloquially known as Barça (), is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football. Founded ...

, where Mortensen scored 8 goal in Barcelona in the 26–24 loss away.

SønderjyskE

Mortensen joined

SønderjyskE SønderjyskE is a Danish sport corporation. They have a football team (SønderjyskE Fodbold, based in Haderslev), two handball teams (SønderjyskE Håndbold, one male based in Sønderborg, one female based in Aabenraa) and an ice hockey team (S ...

in 2014–2015 season, signed a one-year contract.

announced at the end of the season that they did not expect the contract to be renewed.

HSV Hamburg

On 8 June 2015, Casper U. Mortensen was presented as new player for the German club

, joining the club for the 2015/16 season. Casper U. Mortensen was signed on a three-year contract.

declared insolvent on 15 January 2016.

TSV Hannover Burgdorf

After playing the European Championships in Poland with the national team of Denmark in 2016, Mortensen signed a contract with TSV Hannover-Burgdorff for the rest of 2015–2016 season. The contract was extended later until the summer of 2020. The season 2017-2018 went on to be one of the bests in Mortensen career, where he finished the season strong with Hannover-Burgdorf (6th place in the league - best result in history of Hannover) and was crowned with a personal trophy - the topscorer in the Bundesliga with 230 goals in total.

FC Barcelona

After long negotiations in the spring 2018 between TSV Hannover-Burgdorf and FC Barcelona, a deal was made, and Mortensen was bought of FC Barcelona, where he signed a 3-year contract until the summer of 2021. After 6 months together with his new teammates in Barcelona he finished a strong first half-season in the 2018–2019 season. They had already won multiple titles and Mortensen was named EHF PLAYER OF THE YEAR 2018 by EHF.

Individual awards

* Topscorer of the

Handball-Bundesliga The Handball-Bundesliga (HBL) is the top German professional handball league. From 2007 onwards, the league was sponsored by Toyota and has officially been called the ''Toyota Handball-Bundesliga''. This lasted until 2012 when the Deutsche Kr ...

(HBL):

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EHF Player of the year The European Handball Federation, EHF Players of the Year are Team handball, handball awards given annually to the best male and female players who are considered to have performed the best in the previous year. They are awarded based on the EHF P ...

2018

References

External links

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HSV Hamburg Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mortensen, Casper Ulrich 1989 births Living people Danish male handball players Handball players from Copenhagen SønderjyskE Håndbold players FC Barcelona Handbol players Viborg HK players Handball-Bundesliga players Liga ASOBAL players Expatriate handball players Danish expatriate sportspeople in Germany Danish expatriate sportspeople in Spain Olympic handball players for Denmark Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Denmark Olympic medalists in handball