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Michael Madsen (disambiguation)

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Michael Madsen (born January 24, 1974) is a Danish

Denmark

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retired football

Football (soccer)

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player, who most prominently played professionally for Italian

Italy

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club AS Bari

A.S. Bari

Associazione Sportiva Bari is an Italian football club founded in 1908, they are based in Bari, Apulia and plays in Serie B. The club have spent many seasons bouncing between the top two divisions in Italian football, Serie A and Serie B....

and VfL Wolfsburg

VfL Wolfsburg

VfL Wolfsburg is a professional German association football club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, who play in the Bundesliga football competition. Wolfsburg have won the Bundesliga once in their history, in the 2008–09 season, and were DFB-Pokal runners-up in 1995. The current head coach is Felix...

in Germany

Germany

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. He is now the manager of Vanløse IF

Vanløse IF

Vanløse IF is a Danish football club currently playing in the Danish 2nd Division East.- Squad :As of December 1, 2009 -Achievements:*2 seasons in the Highest Danish League...

Biography

Madsen started his career at BK Avarta

BK Avarta

Boldklubben Avarta is a Danish football club currently playing in the Danish 2nd Division East which ranks as the third best league in Denmark. The team was relegated from the Danish 2nd Division East following the 2005-06 season, but spent only two seasons in the Denmark Series Pool 1 before...

in the secondary Danish 1st Division

Danish 1st Division

The 1st Division has been the name of the second highest football league in Denmark since 1991. From 1945 to 1991 the 1st Division was the name of the highest level of football in Denmark...

league, where he won the 1994 Danish 1st Division Revelation of the Year award. He was introduced to the top-flight Danish Superliga

Danish Superliga

The Danish Superliga is the current Danish football championship tournament, and administered by the Danish Football Association. It is the highest association football league in Denmark and is currently contested by 12 teams each year, with 2 teams to be relegated, which proves to be one of the...

championship, when he was brought to newly promoted

Promotion and relegation

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club Akademisk Boldklub

Akademisk Boldklub

Akademisk Boldklub or AB is a Danish professional football club from Copenhagen,currently playing at the second highest level in Danish domestic football, the 1st Division.-History:...

(AB) in June 1996. Under manager Christian Andersen

Christian Andersen

Christian Andersen is a Danish former football player and now manager. He was most recently the manager of Boldklubben Frem...

, AB finished fifth in the 1997-98 Superliga season

Danish Superliga 1997-98

The 1997-98 Danish Superliga season was the 8th season of the Danish Superliga league championship, governed by the Danish Football Association. It took place from the first match on July 25, 1997 to final match on June 1, 1998....

, with Madsen on the left flank, combining well with teammate Peter Knudsen in central midfield.

In June 1998, Madsen and Peter Knudsen were both brought to Italian

Italy

club AS Bari

A.S. Bari

in a combined transfer deal worth DKK 15 million. When they were forced to compete for the same spot in the Bari starting line-up, Peter Knudsen quickly returned to AB, while Madsen stayed three years at Bari. He started out well for the club, but was eventually benched by manager Eugenio Fascetti. Bari was relegated after the 2001 season, and as his Bari contract ran out in June 2001, Madsen left the club.

He moved to German

Germany

club VfL Wolfsburg

VfL Wolfsburg

on a free transfer. In the opening weeks of the German Bundesliga championship season, Madsen suffered a back injury, and struggled the remaining season to re-enter the starting line-up under manager Wolfgang Wolf

Wolfgang Wolf

Wolfgang Wolf is a German football coach and a former player.-Career:As a player, he spent 12 seasons in the Bundesliga with 1. FC Kaiserslautern and Stuttgarter Kickers.-Coaching career:...

without success. Following three league games for Wolfsburg, Madsen moved back to Denmark to play for Superliga club Farum BK under his former AB manager Christian Andersen in September 2002. Following one season at Farum, Madsen did not get his contract prolonged, and decided to take a job in the sales department of SAV Danmark in July 2003.

After a month away from football, he started playing for amateur club HIK

Hellerup IK

Hellerup IK or HIK is a Danish sport club from Hellerup, Copenhagen. Their football team currently plays in the Danish 2nd Division East.HIK consists also of a handball and a tennis section.-Current squad:-Achievements:...

in the Danish 2nd Division

Danish 2nd Division

The 2nd Division is the third tier Danish football league, just after the 1st Division.It was founded in 1945, after World War II, as the second-best Danish football division. When the Danish Superliga was founded in 1991, the 2nd Division became the third level league...

in August 2003. He helped the club win promotion for the 1st Division, which saw the club turn professional, before he moved to league rivals Lyngby BK in November 2005. Due to an injured knee, he was forced to end his career in February 2007. Shortly after the news of his career stop, it was announced that he is to be associated with the newly founded Birkerød Sports College as a football coach, beginning in the summer of 2007. However he chose to be new head coach at HIK

Hellerup IK

. He only kept this job for a few months, because in June 2007 he was announced new sporting director at BK Fremad Amager

BK Fremad Amager

Fremad Amager is a Danish football club from Amager, Copenhagen. The club's first team are currently playing in Danish 2nd Division East.In 2008-2009 the club was a part of the superstructure FC Amager together with Dragør Boldklub, Kastrup Boldklub and Kløvermarken FB...

. When his new club fired Jakob Friis-Hansen

Jakob Friis-Hansen

Jakob Friis-Hansen is a Danish former international football player.He is an old friend of former England forward Teddy Sheringham.He was formerly a scout for Liverpool FC....

in May 2008 he became caretaker manager.

After the season he becamen manager permanently of FC Amager

FC Amager

FC Amager was a Danish football club, formed on 1 July 2008, which declared itself bankrupt on 30 March 2009. It was as a merger between football clubs Boldklubben Fremad Amager, Kløvermarkens Forenede Boldklubber and Amager Fodbold Forening...

. He had the job at Amager until March 2009, when the club went bankrupt. In June 2009 he was named new manager of Vanløse IF

Vanløse IF

Vanløse IF is a Danish football club currently playing in the Danish 2nd Division East.- Squad :As of December 1, 2009 -Achievements:*2 seasons in the Highest Danish League...

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