William Kvist
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William Kvist Jørgensen (born 24 February 1985) is a Danish
footballer, who plays for the German Bundesliga
club VfB Stuttgart
and the Danish national team
. He can be used in most defensive and midfield positions but his favorite position is the central midfield. He was, however, signed to relieve Lars Jacobsen
on right back in FCK in the autumn of 2007, until Zdeněk Pospěch
was bought to the position.
He has totally played 43 matches and scored four goals for various youth national teams and is now an important player for the A national team
.
in Jutland
, Kvist started his football career at the local club Thorsager Rønde IF at the age of five. Two years later he moved to Copenhagen
where he started in KB
, one of the two clubs behind F.C. Copenhagen. While at KB, he made his debut for the Danish youth national teams in November 2000 and played 4 matches at the 2002
UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship
.
As child he also played handball
, and is therefore known for his very long throw-ins. In the 1996–97 season he won the Danish youth championship in both handball with FIF and football with KB
.
William was promoted to the first team in 2004. He debuted on 23 April 2005 in a match against FC Nordsjælland
where he replaced an injured Ole Tobiasen
on the right back position. His first F.C. Copenhagen goal came on 22 October 2006 in a 3–0 win against Viborg FF
, where he scored the last goal from long range.
Against Ajax Amsterdam
in the UEFA Champions League
3rd qualification round 2006 it was Kvist's pass that deflected off Ajax-defender Thomas Vermaelen for an own-goal. This goal eventually sent F.C. Copenhagen through to the Champions League Group Stage.
In the season 2005–06, he often came in as substitute on mostly the left wing – a position he didn't enjoy playing. He has also played in defence and other midfield positions.
Kvist was called up for the league national team, which played a number of unofficial national team games in the United States
, El Salvador
and Honduras
in January 2007, by national team manager Morten Olsen
. He was in the starting lineup for all three games of the tour, including a 3–1 loss to the United States national team
on 20 January 2007.
After the right-back Lars Jacobsen
travelled to 1. FC Nuremberg in the summer 2007 was Kvist nominated by coach Solbakken
to be the new right back in the club, after having looked at about 50 different players, without result. On 13 August proved Kvist that he only wished to play the position until Christmas, when he rather would evolve as a central midfield player, where he himself thinks he is best.
Although, he has played 6 of his 7 matches for the Danish national team
as right back. He was first called up on 17 August 2007 to the friendly match against Ireland
on 22 August,.
In the season 2010–11 William Kvist secured a starting place on the central midfield playing very well together with newly arrived Brazilian midfield, Claudemir de Souza, where he pushed the captain and the player with the most matches for F.C. Copenhagen, Hjalte Bo Nørregaard, out on the bench and taking a leading role reminding fans and media of the former leader and captain, Peter Nielsen
. Kvist is the model central midfield player. He rarely concedes possession and uses the ball intelligently, is combative in the tackle and has the vision to pick out key passes.
On 16 June 2011, it was announced that Kvist had been sold to the German Bundesliga
club VfB Stuttgart
for an undisclosed fee. He has signed a four year contract.
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
footballer, who plays for the German Bundesliga
Fußball-Bundesliga
The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...
club VfB Stuttgart
VfB Stuttgart
Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V., commonly known as VfB Stuttgart, is a German sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club is best known for its football team, which has participated in all but two Bundesliga seasons...
and the Danish national team
Denmark national football team
The Denmark national football team represents Denmark in association football and is controlled by the Danish Football Association , the governing body for the football clubs which are organized under DBU...
. He can be used in most defensive and midfield positions but his favorite position is the central midfield. He was, however, signed to relieve Lars Jacobsen
Lars Jacobsen
Lars Christian Jacobsen, , and raised in Odense on Funen, is a Danish footballer. He currently plays for F.C. Copenhagen.-Odense Boldklub:Jacobsen started his career with local top-flight team Odense Boldklub...
on right back in FCK in the autumn of 2007, until Zdeněk Pospěch
Zdenek Pospech
Zdeněk Pospěch is a Czech footballer who plays for Mainz 05 in the German Bundesliga. He normally plays as a defender in a right back position, but can also play on the right side of midfield....
was bought to the position.
He has totally played 43 matches and scored four goals for various youth national teams and is now an important player for the A national team
Denmark national football team
The Denmark national football team represents Denmark in association football and is controlled by the Danish Football Association , the governing body for the football clubs which are organized under DBU...
.
Biography
Born in RøndeRønde
Rønde is a town in central Denmark with a population of 2,548 , located in Syddjurs municipality in Jutland.William Kvist, footballer was born in Ronde.-References:...
in Jutland
Jutland
Jutland , historically also called Cimbria, is the name of the peninsula that juts out in Northern Europe toward the rest of Scandinavia, forming the mainland part of Denmark. It has the North Sea to its west, Kattegat and Skagerrak to its north, the Baltic Sea to its east, and the Danish–German...
, Kvist started his football career at the local club Thorsager Rønde IF at the age of five. Two years later he moved to Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
where he started in KB
Kjøbenhavns Boldklub
Kjøbenhavns Boldklub or KB is a Danish sports club based in Copenhagen. The club was founded April 26, 1876 on the grassy fields in outer Copenhagen which later became Fælledparken. Football and cricket has been played in KB since 1879, making KB the oldest football club on Continental Europe and...
, one of the two clubs behind F.C. Copenhagen. While at KB, he made his debut for the Danish youth national teams in November 2000 and played 4 matches at the 2002
2002 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship
-Group B:---------------------Group C:---------------------Group D:---------------------Quarterfinals:-------------Semifinals:-----Third Place Playoff:-Final:-References:**...
UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship
UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship
The UEFA U-17 Championship is an annual football competition organised by the sport's European governing body, UEFA. From 1982 to 2001 it was an Under-16 event.This meeting serves as a preliminary competition for the FIFA U-17 World Cup every other year....
.
As child he also played handball
Team handball
Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...
, and is therefore known for his very long throw-ins. In the 1996–97 season he won the Danish youth championship in both handball with FIF and football with KB
Kjøbenhavns Boldklub
Kjøbenhavns Boldklub or KB is a Danish sports club based in Copenhagen. The club was founded April 26, 1876 on the grassy fields in outer Copenhagen which later became Fælledparken. Football and cricket has been played in KB since 1879, making KB the oldest football club on Continental Europe and...
.
William was promoted to the first team in 2004. He debuted on 23 April 2005 in a match against FC Nordsjælland
FC Nordsjælland
Football Club Nordsjælland is a professional Danish football team from the North Zealand town of Farum, Denmark. Founded as Farum Boldklub from the merger of the town's two football clubs Farum IK and Stavnsholt BK in 1991, the club changed its name to F.C...
where he replaced an injured Ole Tobiasen
Ole Tobiasen
Ole Tobiasen is a Danish former footballer, who played professionally for a number of clubs in Denmark, the Netherlands, and Norway. He most prominently won the Dutch Eredivisie championship with Ajax and the Danish Superliga championship with F.C. Copenhagen. He played in the right back and...
on the right back position. His first F.C. Copenhagen goal came on 22 October 2006 in a 3–0 win against Viborg FF
Viborg FF
Viborg FF is a Danish professional football club located in Viborg. The full name of the club is Viborg Fodsports Forening , but the name is frequently abbreviated as Viborg FF or VFF. The club was founded in 1896, but would have to wait more than a century before winning its only countrywide...
, where he scored the last goal from long range.
Against Ajax Amsterdam
Ajax Amsterdam
Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax , also referred to as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam or simply Ajax , is a professional football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands...
in the UEFA Champions League
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...
3rd qualification round 2006 it was Kvist's pass that deflected off Ajax-defender Thomas Vermaelen for an own-goal. This goal eventually sent F.C. Copenhagen through to the Champions League Group Stage.
In the season 2005–06, he often came in as substitute on mostly the left wing – a position he didn't enjoy playing. He has also played in defence and other midfield positions.
Kvist was called up for the league national team, which played a number of unofficial national team games in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, El Salvador
El Salvador
El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...
and Honduras
Honduras
Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...
in January 2007, by national team manager Morten Olsen
Morten Olsen
Morten Per Olsen is a Danish football manager and former football player. He has been the head coach of the Danish national team since 2000, guiding Denmark to the 2002 FIFA World Cup, 2004 European Championship and 2010 FIFA World Cup...
. He was in the starting lineup for all three games of the tour, including a 3–1 loss to the United States national team
United States men's national soccer team
The United States men's national soccer team represents the United States in international association football competitions. It is controlled by the United States Soccer Federation and competes in CONCACAF...
on 20 January 2007.
After the right-back Lars Jacobsen
Lars Jacobsen
Lars Christian Jacobsen, , and raised in Odense on Funen, is a Danish footballer. He currently plays for F.C. Copenhagen.-Odense Boldklub:Jacobsen started his career with local top-flight team Odense Boldklub...
travelled to 1. FC Nuremberg in the summer 2007 was Kvist nominated by coach Solbakken
Ståle Solbakken
Ståle Solbakken is a Norwegian football coach and a former player. He was named 2004 Norwegian Manager of the Year, and has won five Danish Superliga championships with Copenhagen....
to be the new right back in the club, after having looked at about 50 different players, without result. On 13 August proved Kvist that he only wished to play the position until Christmas, when he rather would evolve as a central midfield player, where he himself thinks he is best.
Although, he has played 6 of his 7 matches for the Danish national team
Denmark national football team
The Denmark national football team represents Denmark in association football and is controlled by the Danish Football Association , the governing body for the football clubs which are organized under DBU...
as right back. He was first called up on 17 August 2007 to the friendly match against Ireland
Republic of Ireland national football team
The Republic of Ireland national football team represents Ireland in association football. It is run by the Football Association of Ireland and currently plays home fixtures at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, which opened in May 2010....
on 22 August,.
In the season 2010–11 William Kvist secured a starting place on the central midfield playing very well together with newly arrived Brazilian midfield, Claudemir de Souza, where he pushed the captain and the player with the most matches for F.C. Copenhagen, Hjalte Bo Nørregaard, out on the bench and taking a leading role reminding fans and media of the former leader and captain, Peter Nielsen
Peter Nielsen (footballer)
Peter Nielsen is a Danish former football player, now a coach. He won 10 international caps and scored one goal for the Denmark national football team, with whom he won Euro 1992, though he didn't play at the tournament....
. Kvist is the model central midfield player. He rarely concedes possession and uses the ball intelligently, is combative in the tackle and has the vision to pick out key passes.
On 16 June 2011, it was announced that Kvist had been sold to the German Bundesliga
Fußball-Bundesliga
The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...
club VfB Stuttgart
VfB Stuttgart
Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V., commonly known as VfB Stuttgart, is a German sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club is best known for its football team, which has participated in all but two Bundesliga seasons...
for an undisclosed fee. He has signed a four year contract.
Honours
- Danish SuperligaDanish SuperligaThe 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...
: 2005–06, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–102009–10 Danish SuperligaThe 2009–10 Danish Superliga season was the 20th season of the Danish Superliga league championship, which determinates the winners of the Danish football championship. It is governed by the Danish Football Association. The tournament started on 18 July 2009 and concluded on 16 May 2010.The Danish...
and 2010–112010–11 Danish SuperligaThe 2010–11 Danish Superliga season was the 21st season of the Danish Superliga championship, which decides the Danish football championship. It began on 17 July 2010 with the previous season's silver medalists from Odense facing Esbjerg and ended on 29 May 2011 with six simultaneous matches. F.C...
(with Copenhagen) - Danish CupDanish CupThe Danish Cup is the official "knockout" cup competition in Danish football, run by the Danish Football Association. The cup has been contested annually since 1955...
: 2008–09 (with Copenhagen) - Danish Superliga Player of the Year: 2010
- Danish Football Player of the Year: 2010