Bo Henriksen

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Bo Henriksen
Personal information
Date of birth (1975-02-07) 7 February 1975 (age 49)
Place of birth Roskilde, Denmark
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Mainz 05 (head coach)
Youth career
OKS
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1994–1997 OB 37 (12)
1998–2002 Herfølge 69 (14)
2001 → Frem (loan) 3 (3)
2001–2002 → Kidderminster Harriers (loan) 12 (5)
2002–2004 Kidderminster Harriers 72 (25)
2004 Bristol Rovers 4 (0)
2004–2005 Køge
2005 Valur
2005 Fram Reykjavik
2005–2006 Victory
2006 ÍBV
2007–2011 Brønshøj 13 (1)
Managerial career
2006–2014 Brønshøj
2014–2020 Horsens
2021–2022 Midtjylland
2022–2024 FC Zürich
2024– Mainz 05
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bo Henriksen (born 7 February 1975) is a Danish football coach and former player. He is the current head coach of Bundesliga side Mainz 05.

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Henriksen rose to prominence as a striker in both his home country, where he won the 1999–2000 Danish Superliga with Herfølge, as well as in England, where he played in the Football League with Kidderminster Harriers.

Playing career

Henriksen, famed for his long locks of blonde hair began his career as a footballer with Danish team OB, whom he joined in 1994 as a youth player from OKS. [1] Despite scoring regularly in his first three years at the club, he fell out of the starting line-up under new OB manager Roald Poulsen, but scored ten goals in five reserve team matches. [2] He left in January 1998 to join fellow Danish Superliga club Herfølge. He became, and remained, a regular fixture in their team for the next three years, scoring 14 goals in 69 league appearances. He scored a single goal during the 1999–2000 season, in which Herfølge most surprisingly won the Danish championship. [3]

As Herfølge struggled economically, Henriksen was loaned out to English club Kidderminster Harriers in November 2001. [4] Henriksen first appeared for Kidderminster in a reserve-team fixture against Wigan Athletic two weeks prior to the deal being signed, and he made his official first-team debut just one day after joining the club, in a fixture against Leyton Orient. [5] He scored a goal as a substitute in the match that Kidderminster won 3–1. He quickly became a firm favourite with the club's fans, and scored eight more times in the 2001–02 season. He was bought by Kidderminster's Danish manager Jan Mølby in a £12,500 transfer deal in February 2002. [4]

Somewhat ironically, his career at the club only really took off after his mentor Jan Mølby parted company with the club in 2002. Henriksen will fondly be remembered in Kidderminster for breaking all kinds of records during the club's short five-year stay in the Football League. He became the first, and to date only, player to score three goals in a Football League game for the team as Kidderminster beat Exeter City 5–2 in late 2002. [6] He ended the 2002–03 season as the club's highest-ever Football League goal scorer, with 20 goals in 41 appearances. He went on to score two goals in the first match of the following season against Mansfield Town in August 2003, but failed to score again in his Kidderminster career despite remaining one of their most popular footballers. [7]

Affectionately known as "Bomber Bo", he left Kidderminster and joined Bristol Rovers in March 2004, [8] and returned home to Denmark to play for Køge a few months later. [9] Henriksen moved abroad again in June 2005, to play for Valur and Fram Reykjavik in Iceland, [10] as well as Victory in the Maldives. [11] He failed to agree financial terms with English non-league side Telford United in March 2006, and moved on to Icelandic club ÍBV. [12]

Managerial career

Bo Henriksen was a successful player/manager and later manager of Brønshøj from 2007, getting the club promoted to the second best league (Danish 1st Division) in 2010 and maintaining them in the top half of the league for a handful of seasons, [13] until he left for Horsens in 2014. [14] He managed Horsens for six years, until he left by mutual consent in August 2020. [15]

On 31 May 2021, Henriksen was named the new manager of Midtjylland, replacing Brian Priske, who led the team to the 2019–20 Danish Superliga title and had moved to a coaching position at Royal Antwerp. [16]

Henriksen has been released of his managerial duties at Midtjylland as of 28 July 2022, according to an official statement published on Twitter. [17] His tenure at Midtjylland included a second place in the league, only three points off winners Copenhagen and a Danish Cup win. They also competed in the Europa League group stage after losing to PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League qualifying rounds.

On 10 October 2022, he was confirmed as the new head coach of FC Zürich. [18] He signed a contract until summer 2024 with the defending Swiss champions, who found themselves at the bottom of the league after ten games played and with only four points, at the time of his Henriksen's assignment. He then transformed the team from being bottom of the league with only four points in ten games, to being one of the Swiss teams who got the most points, in addition to earning their first win in the Europa League that season following a 2–1 victory over Bodø/Glimt. [19]

On 13 February 2024, Henriksen departed FC Zürich by mutual consent to take up the coaching position at Mainz 05, following the dismissal of Jan Siewert. [20] [21] He managed to lead the team to a 1–0 victory over FC Augsburg, to be their second win of the season on matchday 22 in his first match in charge. Following a heavy defeat against Bayern Munich, he guided his club to nine games without defeat including five wins, two of them in the last two matches, propelling the club from the relegation zone to 13th place. [22]

Managerial statistics

As of 18 May 2024 [23]
Managerial record by team and tenure
TeamFromToRecord
GWDLWin %
Brønshøj 15 December 200626 June 20142431215072049.79
Horsens 26 June 201424 August 2020227826481036.12
Midtjylland 31 May 202128 July 202255291313052.73
FC Zürich 10 October 202213 February 202455231913041.82
Mainz 05 13 February 2024Present13652046.15
Total593261151181044.01

Honours

Player

Herfølge

Victory

Manager

Midtjylland

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References

  1. ↑ Nørgaard, Malte (22 February 2017). "PORTRÆT Nomineret til årets træner: Bo Henriksen vil være landstræner". DR (in Danish).
  2. ↑ Torben Rask Laursen, "Truer med at stoppe", Ekstra Bladet , 7 November 1997
  3. ↑ Winther Johansen, Christian (26 November 2019). "Vandt DM-guld med Herfølge: Bo Henriksen har mistet medaljen". B.T. (in Danish). Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Jan Mølby køber Bo Henriksen". Ekstra Bladet (in Danish). 7 February 2002. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  5. ↑ "Next for Harriers". Worcester News. 11 March 2004. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  6. ↑ "Bo lifts Harriers up to fourth". Worcester News. 19 February 2003. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  7. ↑ "Henriksen hat-trick for Harriers". Worcester News. 9 August 2005. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  8. ↑ Winther-Rasmussen, Michael (26 March 2004). "Bo Henriksen til Bristol Rovers". Ekstra Bladet (in Danish). Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  9. ↑ Johansen, Carsten (18 January 2005). "Bo Henriksen færdig i Køge". bold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  10. ↑ "Bo Henriksen bliver islænding". Tipsbladet (in Danish). Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  11. ↑ Raun, Mathias (30 April 2018). "Unik forbindelse har udødeliggjort danske fodboldspillere på paradis-ø". TV 2 (in Danish). Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  12. ↑ Hilmarsson, Guðmund (20 December 2005). "Bo Henriksen til ÍBV". Morgunbladid (in Icelandic). Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  13. ↑ "Traener". bronshojboldklub-statistik.dk (in Danish). Archived from the original on 3 April 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
  14. ↑ "Bo Henriksen bliver ny cheftræner i AC Horsens". www.achorsens.dk. Archived from the original on 30 May 2014.
  15. ↑ "Jonas Dal bliver cheftræner i AC Horsens" (in Danish). bold.dk. 24 August 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  16. ↑ "BO HENRIKSEN ER NY CHEFTRÆNER I FC MIDTJYLLAND" (in Danish). fcm.dk. 31 May 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  17. ↑ "FC MIDTJYLLAND OPSIGER SAMARBEJDET MED BO HENRIKSEN" (in Danish). fcm.dk. 28 July 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  18. ↑ "Bo Henriksen wird neuer Cheftrainer beim FCZ" (in German). FC Zürich. 10 October 2022. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  19. ↑ "Zürich 2–1 Bodø/Glimt". UEFA. 27 October 2022.
  20. ↑ "Trainerwechsel in die Bundesliga" (in Swiss High German). FC Zürich. 13 February 2024. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  21. ↑ "Bo Henriksen wird der neue Trainer bei Mainz 05". Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 13 February 2024. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
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