Christian Olsen is a Danish

Denmark

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 football

Football (soccer)

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 striker

Striker

Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...

, who currently plays for the Danish 1st Division

Danish 1st Division

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 side Skive IK

Skive IK

Skive IK is a Danish football club currently playing in the Danish 1st Division. They play at Skive Stadion in Skive in Jutland, which has a capacity of 10,000.- Current squad :- External links :...

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Playing for amateur club Middelfart GB in the Danish fourth division (Danmarksserien), Olsen was the league top goalscorer in the 2005-06 season. He had trials with both Odense BK

Odense BK

Odense Boldklub is a Danish professional football club based in the town of Odense. The club has won three Danish championships and five Danish Cup trophies. OB play in the Danish Superliga and their home field is TRE-FOR Park in Odense on Funen...

 and Viborg FF, from the top-flight Danish Superliga championship. They did not sign him, and he moved to Superliga club FC Midtjylland

FC Midtjylland

FC Midtjylland is a professional Danish football team from Herning and Ikast. The team is a result of a merger between Ikast FS and Herning Fremad...

 (FCM) instead. During his time there his great pace and deadly acceleration earned him the nickname "Speedy".

He dived straight into the Superliga level for FCM, and made himself noticed with five goals in his first five games, all of them as a substitute

Substitute (football)

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. In the first half of the 2006-07 season, he took part in 14 of 18 games, 11 of those as a substitute. He scored seven goals in 597 minutes of play, equalling more than a goal per game, in effective playing time.

On 24 June he moved to Skive IK

Skive IK

Skive IK is a Danish football club currently playing in the Danish 1st Division. They play at Skive Stadion in Skive in Jutland, which has a capacity of 10,000.- Current squad :- External links :...

 following a highly successful trial at the club.

External links

• Career statistics at Danmarks Radio
  Danmarks Radio
  DR – officially rendered into English as the Danish Broadcasting Corporation – is Denmark's national broadcasting corporation. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is today Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise...