Nemo Thomsen

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Nemo Thomsen
Personal information
Date of birth (2004-04-05) 5 April 2004 (age 19)
Place of birth Ilulissat, Greenland
Position(s) Centre-Forward
Youth career
0000–2019 Nagdlunguaq-48
2019–2021 SønderjyskE
2021–2023 Kolding IF
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2023 Kolding IF 0 (0)
2023–2024 Young Boys FD
International career‡
2022– Greenland 5 (6)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13:08, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:08, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Nemo Thomsen (born 5 April 2004) is a Greenlandic association footballer who last played for Young Boys FD and the Greenland national team. [1]

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Club career

Thomsen is from Ilulissat, Greenland. [2] During the 2018 Greenlandic Football Championship he scored a hattrick for Nagdlunguaq-48 at age fourteen to become the youngest goalscorer in the tournament. [3] [4]

In 2019 he moved to Southern Jutland in Denmark for more footballing opportunities. [2] Shortly thereafter he began playing for the academy of SønderjyskE while living with a host family for six months before moving into player housing on Louisevej. [5] Following his move to Kolding IF, Thomsen made his debut for the U17 side on 1 April 2021 in a spring season 3–0 victory over Næstved U17. [6]

In February 2023, Thomsen saw minutes for Kolding's senior squad as part of a training camp held in Turkey. Kolding IF faced clubs from Latvia, Denmark, and Bosnia and Herzegovina during the camp. [7] He ended the 2023 season as the under-19 league's top scorer with 25 goals. Kolding IF became went on to win the league title that season. Following the impressive performance, Thomsen signed his first senior contract with the club for the 2023–24 season. [8] [9] [10]

On 8 August 2023, Thomsen scored a hattrick in a 19–1 victory over FC Avrasya in the 2023–24 Danish Cup. The result set a new all-time record for the largest margin of victory in the Danish Cup. [11] Later that month, it was announced Nemo had left Kolding and joined Young Boys FD of the Danish 3rd Division in search of more playing time. [12] [13] He scored for the club to secure a 1–1 draw and a point in a league match against Holbæk B&I. [14] In February 2024 it was announced that Thomsen had departed the club after one half of a season to sign elsewhere. [15]

International career

Thomsen represented Greenland in futsal at the 2018 Arctic Winter Games in Canada's Northwest Territories. Going into the semi-finals, he was the juvenile male division's top scorer in the competition with eighteen goals. [16] He finished the tournament as top scorer with twenty-two goals, more than twice the number scored by any other single player, as Greenland beat Yamalo-Nenets in the final to win the gold medal. [17]

He received his first call up to the Greenland national football team by head coach Morten Rutkjær in October 2020. At 16 years old, he was the youngest player in the 40-man squad. [18] [2] In August 2021, Rutkjær named Thomsen to the 24-man squad that would train and compete against several Danish clubs in Denmark the following month. [19] [20] [21] Thomsen was one of two Denmark-based players in the squad, along with Adam Ejler of HB Køge. [22]

He was then part of the roster for Greenland's first match against an official national team after beginning the process of joining CONCACAF, a hybrid friendly match against Kosovo U21 to be played in Turkey in September 2022. [23] In the opening match of the training camp, Thomsen converted a penalty for Greenland's only goal in a 1–6 defeat to Al-Kahrabaa of the Iraqi Premier League. [24]

Thomsen was the second-top scorer with six goals in five matches at the 2023 Island Games. He finished one goal behind Jake Scrimshaw of the Isle of Wight who played one more match than Greenland. [25]

List of international goals scored by Nemo Thomsen
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
19 July 2023 Blanche Pierre Lane, Saint Martin, Guernsey 2007 Flag of Orkney.svg  Orkney 1–12–2 2023 Island Games
22–2
310 July 2023 Northfield Stadium, Saint Sampson, Guernsey Flag of Froya.svg  Frøya 2–02–0
411 July 2023 The Corbet Field, Saint Sampson, Guernsey Flag of Bermuda.svg  Bermuda U23 1–22–3
52–2
613 July 2023 The Corbet Field, Saint Sampson, Guernsey Flag of Shetland.svg  Shetland 1–21–5

Personal

Thomsen is the son of former Greenlandic international Niels Thomsen. His brother, Paluu, also plays for the academy of Kolding IF. [26]

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