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Jesper Grønkjær (; born 12 August 1977) is a Danish former professional
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er, who most recently worked as a
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for Scandinavian media network
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. A pacey winger, Grønkjær played primarily on the right or left wing, or as a
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. He played a total 400 league games for a number of European clubs, most notably winning the 1999
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with
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and playing more than 100 games for English club Chelsea. Grønkjær ended his career with
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, winning four
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titles with the club. Grønkjær was
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80 times for the Denmark national team from 1999 to 2010, scoring five goals. He played for his country at the World Cup in
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and
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, as well as two
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tournaments. He was named 1995 Danish Under-19 Player of the Year.


Club career


AaB

Raised in
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champions AaB in 1995. He played almost 100 matches for the club, including games in the European
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tournament. He attracted the attention of a string of European top clubs.


Ajax

AaB sold Grønkjær in a £3.5 million
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with
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club
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in October 1997, with Grønkjær moving to Amsterdam in July 1998. At Ajax, he was coached by fellow Dane
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, and played alongside Danish international
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. With Ajax, he won the
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and he was named "Ajax Player of the Year" by the fans in 1999–2000 again finding himself pursued by a host of top teams.


Chelsea

In October 2000, Grønkjær joined
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club Chelsea for £7.8 million, which made him the then most expensive Danish football player. However, he was still sidelined with an injury until January 2001. His career at Chelsea lasted for four years although his form during that time was somewhat inconsistent. At his best he was a constant threat; creating and scoring some very important goals for the club. In Chelsea's fourth round
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match away to Gillingham on 28 January 2001, Grønkjær started his first match for the club and scored two goals and hit the post twice, as Chelsea won 4–2. His most notable Chelsea performance came against
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on the final day of the 2002–03 season, assisting with the first goal and scoring the second at
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to give Chelsea a 2–1 victory and fourth place in the league, which allowed the club to qualify for the upcoming
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tournament. The importance of this result cannot be overstated, as qualification for the Champions League was considered essential to
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's impending takeover of the club, which was at the time in some financial difficulty. For this reason, it is often referred to as the "billion pound goal." Talking about the match in February 2011, Grønkjær said "I remember the goal very well. I was on the right wing when we got a throw-in, but instead of passing I cut in from the right and beat three or four defenders before sticking it in the other corner. It was a nice feeling, and a good reward for a great season." In the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg away at
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, Grønkjær came on for
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in the second half, with
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leading 1–0 on the night and 2–1 on aggregate. Within six minutes of the substitution, Chelsea equalized through a goal by
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. As
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scored three minutes before the final whistle, Chelsea went on to defeat Arsenal 3–2 on aggregate and book a place in the semi-finals. In the following semi-final against
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, he scored from outside the
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with a cross-come-shot, but it was not enough for Chelsea to reach the final, as the club was defeated 5–3 on aggregate by Monaco. Grønkjær also scored a strike in front of 67,000 fans at
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against
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in the penultimate game of the 2003–04 season, the second of a three-game scoring streak. His final goal scored for Chelsea came the following week against
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, where he scored the winner with a header in the first half.


Three clubs in two years

Chelsea had fired manager
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before
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, and Grønkjær signed for
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for £2.2 million in July 2004. He had a poor start with Birmingham; manager
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attributed this to difficulty adapting to playing in a struggling team, as "he is used to his team dominating the opposition and he is used to the ball more often". He scored only once, against Lincoln City in the
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. He was transferred to
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in December 2004, for a fee of around €2 million. Grønkjær struggled to settle in Spain and, following putting in a transfer request, made a reported €6 million move to
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club
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in the summer of 2005, where the club was building a formidable squad under manager
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and Grønkjær would play alongside fellow Dane
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. Despite the hype and expectations at the start of the season, the club struggled in mid-table. At the beginning of February 2006, Grønkjær and Tomasson openly criticised Trapattoni as "lacking the will to attack and win." The criticism came after 12 drawn games out of 20, and although Trapattoni wanted to assert his authority and benched both players in the next game, he himself was fired the very next day, on 9 February 2006. Rumours in the German and Danish media suggested that Grønkjær would leave Stuttgart in favour of Danish club
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.


Copenhagen

Grønkjær was presented as a new player for the defending
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champions Copenhagen on 23 June 2006. Seen as an important player for Copenhagen's UEFA Champions League ambitions, Grønkjær helped the team qualify for the 2006–07 tournament, the first tournament participation in club history. He picked up a
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injury in a September 2006 Champions League match against Portuguese team Benfica. He was given a prognosis of an eight- to twelve-week recovery, and returned in a November game against
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in the
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. On 6 December 2006, he scored the second Champions League goal of his career, against Scottish team
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in a match FCK won 3–1 at the
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. By the end of the season, Grønkjær had played 21 of 33 games, as Copenhagen retained the
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championship. In November 2007, Grønkjær was named both Superliga Profile of the Year and Superliga Player of the Year. During the closing games of the 2007–08 football season in May 2008, Grønkjær sustained a knee injury. The injury became infected by
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, and required three bouts of surgery. He did not recover until halfway through the 2008–09 football season, when he rejoined the Copenhagen team for a friendly match against Swedish team
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in January 2009. By the end of that season, he had again earned a place in the starting line up, as Grønkjær helped Copenhagen win the Double of both
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championship and the
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trophy. Grønkjær played the highest number of games in his Copenhagen career during the 2009–10 football season, as he helped the club win the
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championship. With two goals in 12 games, Grønkjær helped Copenhagen advance to the 2010–11 Champions League Round of 16, as the first Danish team to advance that far into the tournament. Copenhagen was eventually eliminated by Grønkjær's former team Chelsea. On 26 May 2011, with Copenhagen having already secured the
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championship, Grønkjær announced that he would retire from professional football after the last league match of that Superliga season. "I'd like to be able to go jogging when I have played my last football game," he said. "I want a life without aches." He played his last game against his first professional club AaB, and scored the final goal in a 2–0 victory for Copenhagen.


Return to football

On 1 February 2016, it was confirmed that Grønkjær had signed with lower amateur-side Græsrødderne.


International career

While at Thisted, Grønkjær made his debut for the Danish youth national teams in October 1992. With three goals in six matches, as the Denmark national youth team won silver medals at the
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, Grønkjær showed himself one of the brightest talents in Danish football. He was named 1995 Danish Under-19 Player of the Year. In total, he scored 26 goals in 64 Danish youth team international games. In his first year at Ajax, Grønkjær made his full international debut for the Denmark national team in the 2000 European Championship (Euro 2000) qualification game against
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on 27 March 1999. In the very first minute of the game, he famously echoed
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's
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mistimed back pass to Spanish forward
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, as Grønkjær passed the ball to Italian forward
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who promptly scored the first goal in Italy's 2–1 victory. Despite the disappointing debut game, Grønkjær became an important part of the national team under coach
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and he played full-time in Denmark's three games at the Euro 2000 main tournament. While at Chelsea, Grønkjær became a mainstay in the Denmark national team under new national team coach Morten Olsen, and he played in all of Denmark's four games at the 2002 World Cup. In the qualification games for
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, he scored the game-winning goal in a 1–0 victory over closest rivals
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, helping Denmark qualify for the final tournament in Portugal. He missed the opening game of Euro 2004 due to the death of his mother, but went to Portugal to join the Danish squad and scored the second goal of the 2–0 win against
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. He was included in Olsen's squad for the
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in South Africa. After Denmark's elimination from the 2010 World Cup, Grønkjær announced his retirement from international football.


Career statistics


Club


International

:''Scores and results list Denmark's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Grønkjær goal.''


Honours

Ajax *
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: 1998–99 Copenhagen *
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: 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10,
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*
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: 2008–09 Individual * Danish Under-19 Player of the Year: 1995 * TIPS-bladet's Player of the Year: 2006–07 * TIPS-bladet's Autumn Profile: 2007 * Team of the Year: 2007 *
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Profile of the Year: 2007 *
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Player of the Year: 2006–07


References


External links

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