Lars Winde (born 3 December 1975) is a Danish former professional
footballer
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who played as a
goalkeeper
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for
Danish Superliga
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clubs
Esbjerg fB
Esbjerg forenede Boldklubber (; commonly known as Esbjerg fB or EfB in short) is a Danish professional football club based in Esbjerg, West Jutland, that plays in the 2nd division, the third-tier of the Danish football league system. Foun ...
and
Aalborg BK
Aalborg Boldspilklub is a Danish sports club based in the city of Aalborg. The club is also known as AaB for short (cf. logo) or Aalborg BK. Through time the club has had branches in cricket, tennis, ice hockey, handball, and basketball, but curre ...
(AaB) as well as
Austrian Bundesliga
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side
SW Bregenz. Winde played seven games for the
Denmark U21 national team.
Career
Lars Winde is the son of former 1960s
Aalborg BK
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(AaB) goalkeeper
Kurt Winde. As a child, he played football as an outfield player, but ultimately chose the
goalkeeper
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position due to
asthma
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.
[ E. Trier Hansen, "Portræt: Lars Winde , AaB", ]Politiken
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, 19 March 1995, Sports pages, p.1 In January 1994, at the age of 18, Winde became the understudy of
Norway international goalkeeper
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. He signed a one-year professional contract with AaB in the Summer 1994,
and was an unused substitute as AaB won the
1994–95 Danish Superliga
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The tournament was held in two rounds. The first round was in autumn 1994, and the second in spring ...
championship. In June 1995, he extended his contract by an additional year.
Winde got his senior breakthrough with AaB during the
1995–96 Danish Superliga
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season. He was handed his Superliga debut in August 1995 by manager
Sepp Piontek
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Playing career
Born in Breslau, now Wrocław. Piontek started his playing career with VfL Germania Leer. Between 1963 and 1972, the full-back ...
, replacing the injured Gill. When Gill suffered another injury in November 1995, Winde was praised for his displays for AaB.
[ Jan Løfberg, "Ungdomsholdets millionkup", ]Berlingske Tidende
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''Berlingske'' ...
, 7 December 1995, p.23 Even though Gill was ready for action in December 1995, Winde was preferred for the
1995–96 UEFA Champions League
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group stage game against
Portuguese
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team
FC Porto
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, which ended a 2–2 draw.
As Gill left AaB in January 1996, Winde consolidated himself as AaB's first choice goalkeeper. He signed a two-year contract extension in May 1996.
In April 1997, Winde suffered a shoulder injury which forced him out of the team. In his place, reserve 'keeper
Jimmy Nielsen
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Until June 2007, he played 398 games for Danish team AaB Fodbold. Playing every league match for AaB since 1997, Nielsen won the 1999 Danish ...
impressed enough, that Winde was demoted to the role of reserve once he had regained his fitness later that month. He and Nielsen were seen by AaB manager
Hans Backe
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to be very much on par, and Winde opted to sign a contract until the Summer 1999, eventually extending it until 2004. He spent the entire season on the bench once more, as AaB won the
1998–99 Danish Superliga
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The Danish ...
championship.
By February 2000, Winde made public his desire to leave AaB on a loan contract. He was loaned out to
Austrian Bundesliga
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club
SW Bregenz in January 2001, brought in by manager
Ove Flindt Bjerg
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, a former AaB player. He stayed with Bregenz for one-and-a-half years as the starting goalkeeper, before returning to AaB in May 2002.
Having played no Superliga games for AaB since April 1997, Winde agreed a January 2003 move to Superliga rivals
Esbjerg fB
Esbjerg forenede Boldklubber (; commonly known as Esbjerg fB or EfB in short) is a Danish professional football club based in Esbjerg, West Jutland, that plays in the 2nd division, the third-tier of the Danish football league system. Foun ...
. Winde forced
Martin S. Jensen
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He played 134 games in the top-flight Danish Supe ...
out of the team, and only missed a single Superliga game until September 2005, at which time he incurred a knee injury. He regained the starting position from understudy
Jan Hoffmann
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in April 2006, and was part of the Esbjerg team which reached the
2006 Danish Cup Final
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, losing to
Randers FC
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. He and Esbjerg also reached the
2008 Danish Cup Final, which was lost to
Brøndby IF
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. Winde made the starting position his until the beginning of the
2010–11 Danish Superliga
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season. Following four straight Superliga defeats, Esbjerg manager
Ove Pedersen
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the starting goalkeeper in August 2010. Winde eventually reclaimed his position and Ove Pedersen made him Esbjerg team captain in March 2011.
[Esbjerg har valgt ny anfører]
Bold.dk, 3 March 2011
References
External links
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statistics at danskfodbold.com
Lars Winde at Esbjerg fB
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1975 births
Living people
Footballers from Aalborg
Danish men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Denmark men's under-21 international footballers
AaB Fodbold players
Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz players
Esbjerg fB players
Danish Superliga players
Danish expatriate men's footballers
Danish expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Expatriate men's footballers in Austria