Danni König (born 17 December 1986) is a retired Danish professional

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Career

Born in

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, König played as a youth player with

Brønshøj BK Brønshøj, part of the municipality of Copenhagen, forms, together with Husum, the administrative city district (''bydel'') of Brønshøj-Husum, in Denmark. History The first mention of the village Brønshøj (Brunshoga), is in a letter dated Oc ...

U-19 team before signing with the Brønshøj BK pro team in 2005. He played with them for four years before being traded to

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in 2009. In April 2010, he signed with Valur before re-signing with Brønshøj BK in August 2010. He signed with

FC Vestsjælland FC Vestsjælland, also known as FCV Vikings, was a professional Danish association football club that played in the Danish 1st Division until its closure in 2015. They played their home matches at Harboe Arena Slagelse in Slagelse, which has a c ...

in 2011. On 26 July 2013, König was loaned back to Brønshøj BK. His loan ended on 31 December 2013. König signed with

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on 12 February 2015. He was named

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Player of the Week for the week of 7 April 2015. On 10 May 2017, König was traded from Oklahoma City Energy to

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in exchange for Andy Craven. On 25 October 2017, the club confirmed that König would return for the 2018 season. König signed with Danish 1st Division club

Lyngby BK Lyngby Boldklub () is a Danish professional football club founded in 1921. It is based at Lyngby Stadion in Kongens Lyngby, Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality, a northern suburb of Copenhagen. From 1994 to 2001 the club was known as Lyngby FC. The clu ...

on 31 January 2019 for six months. He left the club at the end of the season. On 7 July 2019,

announced that König had returned to the club. On 10 January 2020 it was confirmed, that he had left the club and would retire from football.Brønshøj siger farvel til angrebs-duo
bold.dk, 10 January 2020

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Konig, Danni 1986 births Living people Danish men's footballers Danish expatriate men's footballers OKC Energy FC players FC Cincinnati (2016–18) players Brønshøj Boldklub players Randers FC players Valur (men's football) players FC Vestsjælland players Lyngby Boldklub players Danish Superliga players Danish 1st Division players Danish 2nd Division players USL Championship players Association football forwards Danish expatriate sportspeople in Iceland Danish expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate footballers in Iceland Expatriate soccer players in the United States Footballers from Copenhagen