Thomas Gravesen ( danish pronunciation : [ ˈkʁɑːwəsn̩ ] ; born 11 March 1976 ) is a danish former master football player who played as a midfielder. Gravesen played as a professional in Denmark, Germany, England, Spain and Scotland for Vejle Boldklub, Hamburger SV, Everton, Real Madrid and Celtic.
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For the Denmark national team, Gravesen was capped 66 times and scored five goals, from his debut in August 1998 until he ended his national team career in September 2006. He represented Denmark at the international Euro 2000, 2002 World Cup and Euro 2004 tournaments. He is the older brother of football player Peter Gravesen .
Club career [edit ]
Vejle Boldklub [edit ]
Born in Vejle, [ 1 ] Gravesen began his career in 1995 with hometown club Vejle Boldklub ( VB ) in the Danish Superliga, alongside a handful of youths making it through the VB young person dodge, including good friend Kaspar Dalgas. At VB he played as carpet sweeper and defensive midfielder, and after he won silver medals in the 1996–97 Superliga temper he moved to german team Hamburger SV in 1997. Gravesen made a total of 94 appearances and six goals in three years with HSV .
Everton [edit ]
Following the Euro 2000 tournament, Gravesen went to English club Everton and promptly became a front-runner amongst the fans. Gravesen played a key function in Everton ‘s rise toward the top of the 2004–05 Premier League table. With his contract due to expire in the summer of 2005, which would enable him to leave on a rid transfer, Everton sold Gravesen to Real Madrid in January 2005 for a amazingly low fee of £2.5 million. [ 2 ]
substantial Madrid [edit ]
Gravesen was signed to fill a hole in Madrid ‘s defensive midfield, a position slightly different from his function at Everton. [ 3 ] He found immediate play success at Real Madrid, scoring in one of his first gear games, a 4–0 winnings against Espanyol. [ 4 ] however, Gravesen would finally find himself benched. Following public cry over his street fighter style of gambling and the net of real coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo and sporting director Arrigo Sacchi, who were in care of acquiring Gravesen, he looked ready to leave Real Madrid in the winter transfer window of 2006. however, newly bus López Caro would revive Gravesen ‘s career at Real, picking him regularly, using him in the holding character in the new 4–1–4–1 formation Real adopted. Towards the goal of the season, Gravesen once again found himself out of the team, and in May 2006 a number of clubs were reported to be interest in him. [ 5 ] In August 2006, a shuffle erupted at a veridical madrid trail school term following a hard fishing gear by Gravesen on teammate Robinho. [ 6 ] Fabio Capello, the early Real Madrid coach, said about Gravesen : “ The way he is, we wo n’t have problems with him. He ‘s equitable a little bit peculiar. I do n’t mess with him, he works well tactically. His behavior is like this, and I do n’t like it, everything has to be done like he wants it to be done ”. [ 7 ] Gravesen looked probably to leave Real Madrid before the begin of the 2006–07 temper, with his agent John Sivebæk confirming that a number of clubs – including Newcastle United in England [ 8 ] and scottish clubhouse Celtic [ 9 ] – were matter to in signing the midfielder. [ 10 ] [ 11 ]
celtic [edit ]
On 28 August 2006, Gravesen attended Celtic Park in Glasgow for a medical examen and, on 30 August, signed a three-year batch ( with the choice of a fourth ) with the club, for a speculate fee of around £2 million. There was a period of doubt as to whether Gravesen would sign for Celtic after fake rumours arose of a fail medical and of an eleventh-hour command by Newcastle. [ 12 ]
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He scored his foremost goal for Celtic against arch rivals Rangers on 23 September 2006. He then went on to score the foremost hat-trick of his professional career [ 13 ] when Celtic won 3–1 against St Mirren on 12 November. After a promise start to his Celtic career, Gravesen was replaced in the starting line-up by dutch midfielder Evander Sno. In April 2007, Celtic director Gordon Strachan denied rumours that Gravesen would leave the golf club to play for English club Sunderland, [ 14 ] but in May 2007 he declared his disappointment that Gravesen did not work hard to recapture his place in the starting line-up. [ 15 ] On 18 August 2008, Celtic and Thomas Gravesen parted company. [ 16 ]
loanword to Everton [edit ]
Gravesen re-signed for Everton on a season-long loan from Celtic on 29 August 2007. On his first game binding for Everton, as a second-half stand-in in the 2–1 acquire at Bolton Wanderers, he took the corner that Joleon Lescott headed the winner from. In his first gear european appearance of the temper, in Everton ‘s 3–1 victory over Larissa at Goodison Park in the UEFA Cup group stage, Gravesen set up Everton ‘s third finish, scored by Victor Anichebe. however, Gravesen failed to make as boastful an impact as many Everton fans had hoped. A rare highlight was scoring a penalty in the gunfight following the UEFA Cup match against Fiorentina, although Everton would go on to lose the gunfight when Phil Jagielka missed the crucial spot-kick. After the last crippled of the 2007–08 season, coach David Moyes confirmed that Gravesen ‘s contract would not be renewed and he would be returning to Celtic. [ 17 ]
retirement [edit ]
On 27 January 2009, Gravesen announced his retirement from master football after he failed to find a new club after being released by Celtic. On 12 September 2009, he stated in an interview with FourFourTwo that he had been approached by a number of clubs about a potential return to football, but nothing came of these approaches. It was reported in December 2013 that Gravesen had been successful with investments and was living in Las Vegas. [ 18 ]
International career [edit ]
Gravesen debuted for the Danish national team in a 0–1 friendly meet loss to the Czech Republic on 19 August 1998. Gravesen was selected to play for Denmark at the 2000 european Championship ( Euro 2000 ) by passenger car Bo Johansson, despite concern from Johansson that he was not “ psychologically stable ” enough. [ 19 ] While at Everton, newfangled Danish national team bus Morten Olsen in full supported Gravesen and made him one of his pivotal players in the 2002 World Cup and Euro 2004 crusade. His display in the 2002 World Cup qualifying game with Iceland, where Gravesen scored two goals in a 6–0 succeed, was so impressive that american boxer Mike Tyson asked for his shirt [ 3 ] and wore it throughout his stay in Denmark. He played all four of Denmark ‘s matches at the 2002 World Cup, though Gravesen and his partner in the danish midfield duet, Stig Tøfting, justified their pit bull reputations when they ganged up to play a prank on teammate Jesper Grønkjær at a World Cup train seance. [ 20 ] He missed the first group match at Euro 2004 as he was suspended due to a sending off in the last qualify match before the tournament but he played the remaining three games before Denmark were eliminated.
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On 15 September 2006, Gravesen announced his decision to end his international career, deciding now to focus his efforts entirely on Celtic. [ 21 ]
career statistics [edit ]
club [edit ]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Vejle Boldklub | 1995–96 | Superliga | 28 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 2 |
| 1996–97 | 30 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 8 | ||
| Total | 58 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 10 | ||
| Hamburger SV | 1997–98 | Bundesliga | 26 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 2 |
| 1998–99 | 22 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 3 | ||
| 1999–00 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 1 | ||
| Total | 74 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 6 | ||
| Everton | 2000–01 | Premier League | 32 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 2 |
| 2001–02 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 2 | ||
| 2002–03 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 1 | ||
| 2003–04 | 30 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 2 | ||
| 2004–05 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 4 | ||
| Total | 141 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155 | 11 | ||
| Real Madrid | 2004–05 | La Liga | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 1 |
| 2005–06 | 17 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 29 | 0 | ||
| Total | 34 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 49 | 1 | ||
| Celtic | 2006–07 | Scottish Premier League | 22 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 29 | 6 |
| Everton (loan) | 2007–08 | Premier League | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| Career total | 337 | 34 | 21 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 441 | 61 | ||
International [edit ]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | 1998 | 3 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2000 | 8 | 0 | |
| 2001 | 6 | 2 | |
| 2002 | 12 | 0 | |
| 2003 | 10 | 3 | |
| 2004 | 11 | 0 | |
| 2005 | 8 | 0 | |
| 2006 | 6 | 0 | |
| Total | 66 | 5 | |
- Scores and results list Denmark’s goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Gravesen goal.
Honours [edit ]
celtic [edit ]
References [edit ]
promote understand [edit ]
- Thomas Gravesen, told to Kurt Lassen, “Min version” (My version), Denmark, 2005, ISBN 87-91693-51-9