Morten Jensen (born 20 September 1987) is a German

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 ...

goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...

, who currently plays for

TSV Havelse TSV Havelse is a German association football club based in Garbsen, Lower Saxony, near Hanover. History The club was founded in 1912 as ''FC Pelikan-Havelse'' by a group of thirteen young men from the small village of Havelse. They took their ...

Career

Born in

Husum Husum (, frr, Hüsem) is the capital of the ''Kreis'' (district) Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The town was the birthplace of the novelist Theodor Storm, who coined the epithet "the grey town by the sea". It is also the home of ...

, Jensen joined

Hannover 96 Hannoverscher Sportverein von 1896, commonly referred to as Hannover 96 (), Hannover, HSV or simply 96, is a German professional football club based in the city of Hanover, Lower Saxony. They played in the Bundesliga for a total of 30 years betwe ...

in 2003 and established himself as the number one with their amateur side, playing in the Oberliga North. He debuted for the Bundesliga team, when he started in the final day 2–2 draw with Bayer Leverkusen on 13 May 2006. His opportunity arrived after Hannover had loaned out former third choice keeper Daniel Haas to

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft 1899 Hoffenheim e.V., or simply TSG 1899 Hoffenheim or just Hoffenheim () is a German professional football club based in Hoffenheim, a village of Sinsheim municipality, Baden-Württemberg. Originally founded in 1899 ...

. His contract with

expired in the summer of 2010. In July 2010, he signed a contract with Hessen Kassel, before moving to

Holstein Kiel Kieler Sportvereinigung Holstein von 1900 e.V., simply as KSV Holstein or Kieler SV Holstein, commonly known as Holstein Kiel (), is a German association football and sports club based in the city of Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein. From the 1900s thro ...

a year later.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jensen, Morten 1987 births Living people People from Husum German men's footballers Bundesliga players Hannover 96 players Hannover 96 II players Holstein Kiel players SV Elversberg players Men's association football goalkeepers TSV Havelse players Footballers from Schleswig-Holstein