Dan Anton Johansen

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Dan Anton Johansen
Personal information
Full name Dan Anton Johansen
Date of birth (1979-08-13) August 13, 1979 (age 44)
Place of birth Denmark
Position(s)
Defender
Youth career
Brøndby IF
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2006 Brøndby IF 189 (6)
2006–2007 Lillestrøm SK 23 (0)
2008–2009 Viborg FF 28 (1)
2009–2010 Hvidovre IF
International career
1995 Denmark u-16 3 (0)
1995–1996 Denmark u-17 11 (0)
1996–1999 Denmark u-19 19 (1)
1998–2001 Denmark u-21 13 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dan Anton Johansen (born August 13, 1979) is a former

footballer currently playing for Hvidovre IF. Johansen started his career with Danish team Brøndby IF in 1999, with whom he won the 2002 and 2005 Danish Superliga championships. He has played 46 matches for various Danish youth national teams, including 13 games for the Denmark national under-21 team
.

Biography

Brøndby

Johansen started playing football with Brøndby IF as a boy. He worked his way through the club's youth system, and represented various Danish national youth teams. Johansen played a combined total of 46 national youth team games, and scored one goal, and he won the 1995

Sweden international defender Andreas Jakobsson and the emergence of the five years younger Daniel Agger
, Johansen found his place in the right back position. From his wide position, he showed a tendency to fire off volleys from a great distance, some with spectacular effect.

In 2004, the Danish football players' association went on a

UEFA Cup qualification re-match. Two days before the match, Johansen and Brøndby team captain Per Nielsen broke the strike and returned to the team training,[1] causing a lot of controversy in the process. The day after, the players' and football clubs' associations reached a provisorical agreement,[2]
and Brøndby's first team players were selected for the match, though they were eliminated on aggregate.

During the

sent off. It was then expected he would look to other clubs in December 2005, when his Brøndby contract expired. In late December, Johansen signed a prolonged one-year contract with Brøndby, running to late December 2006.[4]

He played just four games in the spring 2006, and in July 2006 he left Brøndby and signed a contract with Norwegian team Lillestrøm SK.

Lillestrøm

In February 2008, after two mediocre seasons for Lillestrøm, with few first-team appearances, Johansen was released on free transfer, and as of March 2008 he was without a club.

Viborg

Dan Anton Johansen joined Viborg as an amateur after Lillestrøm and went on to sign a contract for one year with the club.[5]

Hvidovre

After his year at Viborg, Johansen played half a season with Hvidovre in the first division. They could not agree on an extension which forced Johansen to consider stopping his career as a 30-year-old.[6]

Honours

References

  1. ^ (in Danish) Brøndby IF – 2004 Archived 2020-09-23 at the Wayback Machine, Brøndby IF, 4 January 2005
  2. Dansk Metal
    , 25 August 2004
  3. Danmarks Radio
    , 30 August 2005
  4. Danmarks Radio
    , 23 December 2005
  5. ^ "Dan Anton bliver i Viborg". Ekstra Bladet (in Danish). 12 June 2008. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  6. ^ "Dan Anton Johansen overvejer karrierestop". Ekstra Bladet (in Danish). 11 January 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2019.

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