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Per Lundgren Nielsen〔 (born October 15, 1973) is a retired Danish professional football (soccer) player who played in the central defense of Brøndby IF in the Danish Superliga for his entire club career. With Brøndby, Nielsen won five Danish championships and three Danish Cups since his senior debut in 1993. He played 547 official games for Brøndby IF and scored 26 goals, and from 2002 to 2008 he was named team captain. He played 10 matches for the Denmark national football team and is noted for 19 matches for the national under-21 team from 1994 to 1996. Following his retirement, he has worked as first as an assistant coach, later as head coach. Currently he is at Brøndbys women's team. ==Club career== Born in Århus,〔(Per Nielsen ) at Haslund.info〕 Nielsen's parents moved to Brøndby when he was a child, and he enrolled at Brøndby IF at the age of five.〔 (Brøndby IF profile )〕 Nielsen made his senior debut in the Brøndby IF jersey on June 26, 1993,〔 and debuted in the Danish Superliga championship in March 1995.〔 Nielsen was touted as the long-term successor of central defender Uche Okechukwu and was permanently moved into the senior squad in December 1993, coming from a Brøndby youth team that sported several later first team regulars, including Kim Daugaard, Allan Ravn and later Danish national team player Ebbe Sand.〔Kurt Stendal, "Brøndbys unge garde", ''Berlingske Tidende'', 6 December 1993.〕 Nielsen became a mainstay in the team during the 1995–96 Superliga season,〔(Per Lundgren Nielsen ) at DanskFodbold.com〕 as Brøndby won the Danish championship, and established himself as a regular starter. He helped Brøndby repeat the Superliga win in the 1996–97 Superliga and the Double of both Superliga championship and Danish Cup title in 1998. Following the 2001–02 Superliga championship triumph with Brøndby, Danish international goalkeeper Mogens Krogh retired, and Nielsen was chosen as new team captain. After his second Danish Cup triumph in 2003, Nielsen was elected the 2003 Brøndby IF ''Player of the Year''.〔(Årets Spiller ) at Brøndby IF〕 In 2004, the Danish football players' association announced a strike action. Brøndby was still in European competition, and would be forced to field a team consisting of retired Brøndby professionals, youth team players and recent signings who had yet to become members of the players' association, in the August 2004 UEFA Cup qualification re-match against FK Ventspils. Two days before the match, Nielsen and team mate Dan Anton Johansen broke the strike and returned to the Brøndby training,〔 (Brøndby IF – 2004 ), Brøndby IF, 4 January 2005.〕 causing a lot of controversy in the process. The day after, the players' and football clubs' associations reached a provisorical agreement,〔 (OK04: Spillerkonflikt afblæst ), Dansk Metal 25 August 2004.〕 and Brøndby's first team players were selected for the match, though they were eliminated on aggregate. He captained Brøndby to the Double of the 2004–05 Superliga and Danish Cup titles, and was named 2006 Brøndby IF ''Player of the Year''.〔 In February 2008, Nielsen chose to resign from the position of team captain, stating that he would spend his remaining one and a half years at Brøndby helping the club move on, also if that meant him taking a place on the bench.〔 (Per Nielsen overdrager anførerhvervet ), Brøndby IF, 22 February 2008.〕 Stefán Gíslason was named his successor. Nielsen helped Brøndby win the 2008 Danish Cup, his last trophy with the team. Nielsen announced that he would retire as an active footballer in late June 2008. Instead he will continue as a scout in Brøndby. His last game in the blue and yellow jersey was his testimonial match against Spanish team Deportivo La Coruna on July 12, 2008.〔(Per Nielsen testimonial mod La Coruna ), Brøndby IF, 27 June 2008.〕 Nielsen played a total 547 games in all competitions,〔(1. holdsspillere i Brøndby IF ) at Brøndby IF〕 including 394 games and scored 23 goals for Brøndby in the Superliga.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Per Nielsen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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