Birger Bloch Peitersen (; born 7 March 1945) is a Danish former football

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and player. After his career in football, he featured as a sports

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. He is currently employed at the Department of Sports at the

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Career

After playing as a

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for

IK Skovbakken Vejlby Skovbakken Aarhus (; commonly known as VSK Aarhus) is a Danish football club based in Risskov, a neighbourhood in Aarhus. The club was founded in 2016 when the football departments of Vejlby IK Fodbold and Idrætsklubben Skovbakken decide ...

and

Helsingør IF Helsingør ( , ; sv, Helsingör), classically known in English as Elsinore ( ), is a city in eastern Denmark. Helsingør Municipality had a population of 62,686 on 1 January 2018. Helsingør and Helsingborg in Sweden together form the norther ...

, Peitersen graduated in Sports and History degrees at the

in 1972. He then went on to become a sports consultant in

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for the

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(DANIDA). In 1975, Peitersen became employed as a '' gymnasie'' (high school) teacher at Rungsted Gymnasium, before joining the

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in 1981. As a player, Peitersen made appearances for Skovbakken in the 2nd Division (third-tier). In 1978, he started his career in management as the head coach of Helsingør IF, a position he held until starting at the UCPH Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports. From 1985 until 1988, he was the coach of the

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. In 1987, he shortly coached

Brøndby IF Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening (, usually abbreviated to Brøndby IF (), is a professional association football club based in Brøndbyvester, Capital Region of Denmark. The club was founded in 1964 as a merger between two local clubs and was pr ...

after the departure of

Ebbe Skovdahl Ebbe Skovdahl Hansen (5 July 1945 – 23 October 2020) was a Danish football manager. He most prominently was a successful manager at Brøndby IF, for whom he had also played in his active years. He helped turn the side into the most dominant Dan ...

to Benfica, where he led the team to the Danish championship in the same year. He worked as Brøndby's head coach alongside his position as women's national team coach, but stopped in Brøndby when Skovdahl returned to his former position in the following year. Since 1984, Peitersen has been a pundit on several Danish television channels, including '' DR'', ''

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'' and '' Kanal 5''. He retired from punditry in 2010.

Honours

Brøndby * 1st Division⁽⁾:

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Peitersen, Birger 1945 births Living people Danish men's footballers FC Helsingør players Danish football managers Brøndby IF managers Denmark women's national football team managers Danish Superliga managers VSK Aarhus players Footballers from Aarhus Men's association football midfielders