Keld Kristensen (born 16 January 1952) is a Danish

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manager and former player who works as a scout. During his playing career, he featured as a

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for

B 1903 Boldklubben 1903 or B 1903 is a football club founded on 2 June 1903, located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Seven times winner of the Danish championship (introduced 1913) in 1920, 1924, 1926, 1938, 1969, 1970 and 1976 and twice winner of the Danish ...

and B93. He most notably managed

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Playing career

Kristensen played most of his career at

. Between 1970 and 1972 he played six games for various Denmark national youth sides. He scored one goal against the Netherlands under-19s on 8 August 1970.

Coaching career

As a manager, he started in his old club

. Later he returned to the club as assistant for

Benny Johansen Benny Johansen (born 18 March 1949) is a Danish former football player and manager. He won the Danish championship twice as a player for B 1903 and once as a manager of FC Copenhagen. He played one game for the Denmark national under-21 footbal ...

. When

merged with

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to form

in 1992, Kristensen continued as Johansen's assistant. When Johansen stopped as manager in 1994, Kristensen was named new head coach. The club had a terrible start to the 1994-1995 season: In the

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they only barely defeated Finnish side

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, and after five games in the Superliga the club had lost three games and drawn two. Due to the bad results the board chose to sack Kristensen and replaced him with Johansen.FC Krøniken: Efteråret 1994
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Honours

Player

B 1903 * Danish championship: 1969, 1970, 1976; runner-up 1972, 1977 *

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: 1979 B93 * Danish Cup: 1982

References

External links

Keld Kristensen's Personal homepage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kristensen, Keld 1952 births Living people People from Gladsaxe Municipality Danish men's footballers Denmark men's youth international footballers Denmark men's under-21 international footballers Men's association football fullbacks Boldklubben af 1893 players Danish football managers F.C. Copenhagen managers Footballers from the Capital Region of Denmark