Christian Flindt Bjerg

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Christian Flindt Bjerg
Personal information
Date of birth (1974-02-19) February 19, 1974 (age 49)
Place of birth Innsbruck, Austria
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1992–1993 AaB 1 (0)
1992–1995 Karlsruher SC 1 (0)
1995–1996 Lugano 15 (0)
1996–1997 Tirol Innsbruck 18 (0)
1997–1998 Viking 34 (11)
1999–2005 Odd Grenland 154 (28)
2005–2007 Viborg 22 (1)
2007–2008 Jetsmark 15 (2)
2008–2011 Thisted 35 (11)
Managerial career
2011–2014 Thisted (youth)
2014–2015 Thisted
2015–2017 AGF (U19)
2017–2020 Vejgaard
2020–2021 Skive (assistant)
2021–2022 Skive
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Christian Flindt Bjerg (born 19 February 1974) is a Danish professional football manager and former player. He is currently the manager of Danish 2nd Division club Skive IK. [1]

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Early life

Flindt Bjerg was born in 1974 in Innsbruck, Austria, when his father, the Danish international Ove Flindt Bjerg, played for FC Wacker Innsbruck. [2]

Playing career

Flindt Bjerg began his senior career in 1991 for AaB. Several club abroad followed. At German club Karlsruher SC he played for the reserve team in the Oberliga, and only made one first-team appearance in the Bundesliga during his three years at the club: on the 25th matchday of the 1994–95 season in a 1–1 draw against Eintracht Frankfurt, where he came on as a substitute in the 63rd minute for Thorsten Fink. Other clubs in Flindt Bjerg's career were Lugano, Tirol Innsbruck and the Norwegian clubs Viking and Odd Grenland. With Odd Grenland, he won the Norwegian Football Cup in 2000. Flindt Bjerg scored the winning goal in extra time to make it 2–1 against his former club Viking. In 2005, he returned to Denmark, where he played for Viborg, Jetsmark and Thisted.

Managerial career

After finishing his playing career in Thisted in 2011, Flindt Bjerg coached the local under-19 team there. In 2014, he was appointed head coach of the senior team competing in the third-tier 2nd Division West. [3] In April 2015, it was announced that Flindt Bjerg had been appointed coach of the under-19 team of AGF. [4]

After two years in the youth department of the club from Aarhus, Flindt Bjerg was hired as the new head coach of recently relegated fourth-tier Denmark Series club Vejgaard BK from Aalborg. [5] During three years at the club, he both led the club back to the 2nd Division and experienced a relegation.

On 31 July 2020, Flindt Bjerg was appointed as the assistant to head coach Martin Thomsen at Skive IK, while tending to his job as a scout for German club Borussia Mönchengladbach. [6] [7] After Thomsen left Skive for a manager job at Hobro IK, Flindt Bjerg was appointed head coach of Skive on 21 June 2021. [8] On 10 June 2022 it was confirmed, that Flindt Bjerg's contract had been terminated by mutual consent. [9]

Honours

Player

Odd Grenland

Manager

Vejgaard

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  2. ↑ "Ein Nachmittag mit Rudi Wimmer und Ove Flindt-Bjerg" (in German). heldenmagazin.com. Archived from the original on 2 January 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "Flindt-Bjerg ny cheftræner i Thisted" (in Danish). bold.dk. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "Flindt Bjerg ny U19-træner i AGF" (in Danish). bold.dk. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "Vejgaard henter cheftræner i AGF" (in Danish). bold.dk. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  6. ↑ Nøhr, Mikkel (31 July 2020). "Christian Flindt Bjerg bliver assistent i Skive" [Christian Flindt Bjerg becomes assistant in Skive]. bold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 December 2020. Skive meddeler, at Christian Flindt Bjerg bliver assistenttræner for Martin Thomsen fra næste sæson.
  7. ↑ Olsson, Søren (31 July 2020). "Flindt Bjerg efter skifte: Skive har imponeret hele Fodbolddanmark". Nordjyske (in Danish). Retrieved 9 December 2020. - De henvendte sig i weekenden, og så er det egentlig gået rimeligt hurtigt med at få det hele på plads, og samtidig passer det også med, at jeg kan beholde mit job som scout for Borussia MönchenGladbach, og det er jeg virkelig glad for.
  8. ↑ Pressemeddelelse, sik-elite.dk, 21 June 2021
  9. ↑ Skive IK og cheftræneren går hver til sit, bold.dk, 10 June 2022
  10. ↑ Holmberg, Erik (26 January 2001). "Styrets beretning 2000" (PDF). Odds BK (in Norwegian). p. 7. Retrieved 9 December 2020. Odds Ballklub klarte det igjen. Hele 69 år skulle det gå før klubben på ny kunne titulere seg Norgesmester i fotball... Viking var slåt 2-1 etter ekstraomganger
  11. ↑ Græsdal Maajen, Anton (2 June 2018). "Vejgaard er tilbage i 2. division". bold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 9 December 2020.
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