Jacob Vittrup "Taz" Sørensen (born 12 February 1983) is a Danish

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

player in the midfielder position, who plays for Danish club Vejle Boldklub. He has played 42 games and scored five goals for various Danish national youth selections, including 19 games and two goals for the

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, and he represented Denmark at the 2000 European Under-17 Championship and 2006 European Under-21 Championship tournaments.

Club career

Sørensen started his senior career with Aalborg BK in the top-flight Danish Superliga championship. He made his Superliga debut for Aalborg in April 2001, and went on to play 95 league games and score five league goals for Aalborg until October 2005Jacob Sørensen
at Dansfodbold.com For the second half of the 2005–06 Superliga season, Sørensen was loaned out to Superliga relegation battlers

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 t ...

. He played 13 league games for the club, but could not prevent SønderjyskE from being relegated at the end of the season. In the summer 2006, Sørensen moved abroad to play for Odd Grenland in the Norwegian Premier League, signing a three-and-a-half-year contract.Jacob Sørensen
at Oddrane.no He and Odd Grenland was relegated to the secondary Norwegian First Division in 2008, but Sørensen stayed at the club and helped Odd Grenland win promotion for the Premier League by winning the 2008 First Division season. In December 2009, after finishing fourth with Odd Grenland in the 2009 Premier League season, Sørensen moved to league rival

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, where he joined fellow Dane

Allan Olesen Allan Olesen (born 25 January 1974) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a defender. He started his career at Danish clubs Albertslund IF Albertslund is a Copenhagen suburb in Albertslund Municipality, Denmark. It is locate ...

International career

Sørensen made his international debut for the Danish national under-17 team in March 2000,Jacob Sørensen
at

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and he played two games for the team at the 2000 European Under-17 Championship. He went on to play 20 games and score three goals for the under-19 and under-20 Danish youth selections. He made his debut for the Danish national under-21 team in September 2004, and played three games for the team at the 2006 European Under-21 Championship.

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Vejle BK profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sorensen, Jacob 1983 births Living people Danish men's footballers Footballers from Aalborg Denmark men's youth international footballers Denmark men's under-21 international footballers AaB Fodbold players Sønderjyske Fodbold players Odds BK players FK Haugesund players Vejle Boldklub Kolding players Expatriate men's footballers in Norway Eliteserien players Norwegian First Division players Danish Superliga players Danish 1st Division players Danish expatriate men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Danish expatriate sportspeople in Norway