Henning Jensen (17 August 1949 – 4 December 2017) was a Danish
football
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player who played professionally for German club
Borussia Mönchengladbach
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, Spanish club
Real Madrid
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Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...
and Dutch club
Ajax Amsterdam
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where he won the domestic league championship in each country. He scored nine goals in 21 games
[Not including the January 1973 exhibition match "Old Europe" vs. "New Europe", which marked the 1973 European Community expansion. Jensen started the game, scored a goal, and was substituted after an hour, as "New Europe" won 2–0.] for the
Denmark national football team
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from 1972 to 1980.
Biography
Born in
Nørresundby
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, Jensen started playing football for local team
Nørresundby BK in the
Denmark Series
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, the then fourth best division of
Danish football
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. Playing as a Right sided Attacker, he made his debut for the Danish national team in May 1972, and scored a goal in the
1972 Summer Olympics
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qualification match against
Romania
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. Before having ever played a Danish league game, he moved abroad in 1972 as he signed a professional contract with German club Borussia Mönchengladbach.
At Mönchengladbach, he played alongside fellow Danish national team player
Allan Simonsen
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in attack. He won the
1972–73 DFB-Pokal,
1974–75 UEFA Cup
The 1974–75 UEFA Cup was won by Borussia Mönchengladbach over Twente
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, and two
Bundesliga
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championships in his four years at the club. After 44 goals in 125 league games, he earned a lucrative move to defending Spanish
La Liga
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champions Real Madrid in 1976. He played three successful years at Real Madrid, winning the
1977–78 and
1978–79 La Liga
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Team locations
League table
Results table
Pichichi Trophy
References
La Liga 1978/1979Primera ...
championships. While in
Madrid
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, he scored the 300th goal in the European competition for the club. He moved to the
Netherlands
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in 1979, to play for defending Dutch
Eredivisie
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champions Ajax Amsterdam of the coaches
Cor Brom
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Playing career
During his playing career, Brom played with Zwarte Schapen, VSV, Limburgia and Telstar.
Managerial career
After retiring as a player, Brom ma ...
and
Leo Beenhakker
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. He met in Amsterdam other Danish players like
Frank Arnesen
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and
Søren Lerby
Søren Lerby (born 1 February 1958) is a Danish former football player, manager, and licensed agent. As a player, he spent most of his career in Dutch football, winning five Eredivisie championships with Ajax Amsterdam and two with PSV Eindhove ...
(and two years later also for a very short period
Jesper Olsen
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). The routined player had to work hard for his position in the team for the first time at the age of 30 years. The midfielder had much rivalry from
Frank Arnesen
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,
Dick Schoenaker
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Career
His football-career started at Wa ...
and
Søren Lerby
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, which trio formed one of the strongest (attacking) midfields of Europe those years. Jensen started as centre forward, when central attacker
Ray Clarke
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was sold. Thereafter he played at the wings, as wing attacker for a period. When
Frank Arnesen
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had been injured a part of the 1979–80 season Jensen moved to the midfield, there playing his best matches for Ajax Amsterdam. In the season 1979–80 he won with Ajax the Dutch Eredivisie league championship and also the semi-finals of the European Cup tournament for champions were reached that season.
He returned to Denmark in July 1981, to play for
AGF Aarhus
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, before he moved back to Nørresundby and played his last games for Nørresundby BK.
In 2006, Henning Jensen was named among the nominees for
DBU
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's "Denmark's All-Time Best Footballer" award, alongside
Preben Elkjær
Preben Elkjær Larsen (; born 11 September 1957) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Amongst others, he played with Hellas Verona in Italy, helping the club to the only major title of its history, the 1985 Serie ...
,
Brian Laudrup
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,
Michael Laudrup
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During his pl ...
,
Morten Olsen
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,
Peter Schmeichel
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,
Allan Simonsen
Allan Rodenkam Simonsen (born 15 December 1952) is a Danish former footballer and manager. He most prominently played as a striker for German Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach, winning the 1975 and 1979 UEFA Cups, as well as for Barcel ...
and
Jon Dahl Tomasson
Jon Dahl Tomasson (; born 29 August 1976) is a Danish football manager and former player who is the current head coach of EFL Championship club Blackburn Rovers.
A forward, his most notable run of football came in his first stint at Feyenoord, w ...
.
He died after a short illness from cancer.
Honours
*
DFB-Pokal
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:
1972–73
*
UEFA Cup
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:
1974–75
*
Bundesliga
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:
1974–75 and
1975–76
*
Spanish La Liga
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:
1977–78 and
1978–79
*
Dutch Eredivisie
The Eredivisie (; ''"Honour Division"'' or ''"Premier Division"'') is the highest level of professional football in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is c ...
:
1979–80
References
External links
Danish national team profile
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1949 births
2017 deaths
Danish men's footballers
Denmark men's international footballers
Nørresundby FB players
Borussia Mönchengladbach players
Real Madrid CF players
AFC Ajax players
Aarhus Gymnastikforening players
Danish Superliga players
Bundesliga players
La Liga players
Eredivisie players
Danish expatriate men's footballers
Danish expatriate sportspeople in West Germany
Expatriate footballers in West Germany
Danish expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate footballers in Spain
Danish expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
People from Nørresundby
Men's association football forwards
UEFA Cup winning players
Deaths from cancer in Denmark
Denmark Series players
Sportspeople from the North Jutland Region