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

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side

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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 Herfølge is a suburb of the town of Køge, Denmark, located about 5 kilometers south of Køge, and is a part of Køge Municipality. The suburb is connected to Køge and Næstved by the Lille Syd railway line. Residential areas Holmebækh ...

, as well as in England, where he played in

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with

Kidderminster Harriers Kidderminster Harriers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. The team compete in the National League North, at the sixth tier of the English football league system. Formed ...

Playing career

Henriksen, famed for his long locks of

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began his career as a footballer with Danish team

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(OB), whom he joined in 1994 as a youth player from OKS. Despite scoring regularly in his first three years at the club, he fell out of the starting line-up under new OB manager

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, but scored 10 goals in five reserve team matches. He left in January 1998 to join fellow

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club

Herfølge Boldklub Herfølge Boldklub is a Danish football club founded in 1921. It is based in Herfølge, a southern suburb of Køge in the eastern part of Zealand. In 2009, the club shared its licence, and merged its professional football with Køge BK to for ...

. 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. As Herfølge struggled economically, Henriksen was loaned out to English club

in November 2001. Henriksen first appeared for Kidderminster in a reserve-team fixture against

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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

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. 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

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in a £12,500

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in February 2002. 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

. He became the first, and to date only, player to score three goals in a Football League game for the team as Kidderminster beat

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5–2 in late 2002. 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

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in August 2003, but failed to score again in his Kidderminster career despite remaining one of their most popular footballers. Affectionately known as "Bomber Bo", he left Kidderminster and joined

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in March 2004, and returned home to Denmark to play for

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a few months later. Henriksen moved abroad again in June 2005, to play for Valur and

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, as well as

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in the

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. He failed to agree financial terms with English non-league side

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in March 2006, and moved on to Icelandic club ÍBV.

Managerial career

Bo Henriksen was a successful player/manager and later manager of

Brønshøj Boldklub Brønshøj BK, full name Brønshøj Boldklub, is a Danish football club located in the outskirts of Copenhagen. The club was founded 15 May. 1919. History in brief Early years: Brønshøj BK's first decades was spent in local leagues in the ...

from 2007, getting the club promoted to the second best league (

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) in 2010 and maintaining them in the top half of the league for a handful of seasons, until he left for AC Horsens in 2014. He managed Horsens for six years, until he left by mutual consent in August 2020. On 31 May 2021, Henriksen was named the new manager of

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, replacing

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, who led the team to the 2019-20 Danish Superliga title and had moved to a coaching position at

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. Henriksen has been released of his managerial duties at

as of 28 July 2022, according to an official statement published on Twitter. On 10 October 2022, he was confirmed as the new head coach of

. 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, at the time of his Henriksen's assignment.

Managerial statistics

Honours

Herfølge *

: 2000 * Player of the Year: 2001 Victory SC * Maldives President's Cup: 2005

References

External links

Bo Henriksen InterviewSoccerbase career statistics

Boldklubben Frem profile
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