Niclas Jensen

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Personal information
Niclas Jensen
Full name	Niclas Christian Monberg Jensen
Date of birth	August 17, 1974
Place of birth	?, Denmark
Position	Left wingback
Club information
Current club	Fulham FC
Youth clubs
	B 93
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1992-1996 1996-1998 1998-2002 2002-2003 2003-2005 2005-	Lyngby FC PSV Eindhoven FC Copenhagen Manchester City Borussia Dortmund Fulham FC	85 (5) 3 (0) 122 (8) 51 (2) 43 (2) 16 (0)
National team**
1998-	Denmark	54 (0)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of November 2, 2006. ** National team caps and goals correct as of November 15, 2006.

Niclas Christian Monberg Jensen (born August 17, 1974) is a Danish professional football player, who plays as a left wingback for Fulham F.C. in the English Premiership. He has played more than 50 games for the Danish national team, and he played for Denmark at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2004 European Championship.

He is the older brother of fellow Danish national team player Daniel Jensen.

[edit] Biography

Jensen started playing football for small Danish club B 93. While at B 93, he made his debut for the Danish youth national teams in August 1990, before he moved on to Lyngby Boldklub in 1992. While at Lyngby, he debuted for the Danish under-21 national team, and he won the 1995 Danish Under-21 Player of the Year award.

When the management of Lyngby changed in 1996, Jensen was one of several players sold by the leaving CEO Flemming Østergaard. Niclas Jensen moved abroad to play for Dutch team PSV Eindhoven in August 1996. After two seasons of little playing time for the club, he returned to Denmark to play for F.C. Copenhagen in 1998, brought in by FCK's new CEO Flemming Østergaard. While at F.C. Copenhagen, he debuted for the Danish national team in a friendly match against the Czech Republic in August 1998. Following his debut, he would have to wait more than two years to play his second national team game, a friendly match against Germany in November 2000.

He went on to play five years for F.C. Copenhagen, with whom he won the 2001 Danish Superliga championship. With right wingback Thomas Rytter, he formed a wingback duo that was known as the best in the Superliga. In January 2002, he was sold to Manchester City in the secondary English 1st Division, in a transfer deal worth DKK 7.5 million. He played the remaining 18 games of the season, as Manchester City won promotion to the top-flight English Premiership. He was selected for the Danish national team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, and in the progress of the tournament, he displaced Jan Heintze as Denmark's starting left wingback.

Returning from the World Cup, he played 33 of Manchester City's 38 games in the 2002-03 Premiership season, as the club finished 9th in the league. Niclas Jensen was bought by German team Borussia Dortmund in July 2003. In his time at Dortmund, he was selected to represent Denmark at the 2004 European Championship. He played Denmark's first three matches at the torunament, before being replaced by Kasper Bøgelund for Denmark's final game before elimination.

He started well for Dortmund, but Jensen was eventually relegated to the role of substitute for Brazilian wingback Dedé. After two years at Dortmund, he moved back to England to play for Fulham FC in July 2005.

[edit] Honours

1995 Danish Under-21 Player of the Year
2001 Danish Superliga

[edit] External links

	Denmark squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup
1 Sørensen \| 2 Tøfting \| 3 Henriksen \| 4 Laursen \| 5 Heintze \| 6 Helveg \| 7 Gravesen \| 8 Grønkjær \| 9 Tomasson \| 10 Jørgensen \| 11 Sand \| 12 N. Jensen \| 13 Lustü \| 14 C. Jensen \| 15 Michaelsen \| 16 Kjær \| 17 Poulsen \| 18 Løvenkrands \| 19 Rommedahl \| 20 Bøgelund \| 21 Madsen \| 22 Christiansen \| 23 Nielsen \| Coach: Olsen