Mikkel Jensen (born January 6, 1977) is a Danish retired

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player in the central

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position. He has won three

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championships with Brøndby IF. Jensen played 47 games and scored one goal for various Danish national youth selections, including 21 matches for the Danish under-21 national team. He was named 1998 Danish ''under-21 Talent of the Year''.

Playing career

Born in

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,Mikkel Jensen 14
at Hammarby IF Jensen started playing football with Værløse BKMikkel Jensen
at Brøndby IF before moving to multiple Danish champions Brøndby IF. He made his

debut for Brøndby IF in April 1997 and played two games as Brøndby won the 1996-97 Superliga championship.Mikkel Jensen
at DanskFodbold.com He made his debut for the Denmark national under-21 football team in August 1997.Mikkel Jensen - Alle hold (Alle kampe)
at Danish Football Association Jensen went on to play 21 games for the under-21 team until December 1999, and was named 1998 Danish ''under-21 Talent of the Year''. Jensen won the 1997-98 and 2001-02 Danish Superliga championships with Brøndby, and played for Brøndby in the 1999

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. He played a total 108 games in all competitions for Brøndby, including 88 games and two goals in the Superliga. When Brøndby hired new manager

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in the summer 2002, Jensen was deemed surplus to requirements. He had a short stop at league rivals

FC Midtjylland FC Midtjylland (, "Central Jutland") is a Danish professional football club based in Herning and Ikast in the western part of Jutland. The club is the result of a merger between Ikast FS and Herning Fremad. Midtjylland competes in the Danish Supe ...

, playing 11 games in the first half of the 2002-03 Superliga season before leaving Brøndby. In early 2003 Jensen joined

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club Hammarby IF for their winter training camp, competing with

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midfielder Simo Valakari for a permanent contract. He scored a goal in a training game against the Malta national team and subsequently signed a three-year contract with Hammarby.Mikkel kom till Hammarby 2003
, Hammarby IF, July 28, 2009 He played six years at Hammarby and served as team captain. In the summer of 2006 he suffered a knee injury which eventually demanded a one-and-a-half-year recovery period. He returned in 2007, but suffered a relapse. In July 2009 Jensen left the club and moved on loan to fellow Stockholm-based club

IF Brommapojkarna Idrottsföreningen Brommapojkarna, more commonly known as Brommapojkarna (meaning ''the Bromma boys'') or simply BP, is a Swedish football club located in the borough of Bromma, in the western parts of Stockholm municipality. Brommapojkarna is t ...

for the remainder of the season. At Brommapojkarna he looked to establish himself as a central defender. Henrik Danielsson
Mikkel Jensen till BP - och blir mittback
Expressen, July 28, 2009 After the loan period ended he got a permanent two-year contract with Brommapojkarna, signing on a free transfer. In 2011 Jensen decided to retire from football.

Honours

: 1996-97, 1997-98, 2001-02 *1998 Danish ''under-21 Talent of the Year''

References

External links

Danish national team profile

Hammarby IF profile

Brøndby IF profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jensen, Mikkel 1977 births Living people Danish men's footballers Denmark under-21 international footballers Danish expatriate men's footballers Danish Superliga players Allsvenskan players Brøndby IF players FC Midtjylland players Hammarby Fotboll players IF Brommapojkarna players Expatriate footballers in Sweden Association football midfielders People from Furesø Municipality Sportspeople from the Capital Region of Denmark