Carsten Vagn Jensen (; born 28 February 1963), colloquially known as Carsten V. Jensen or simply CV, is a Danish former

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and coach, who is currently

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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 ...

Career

He started his career with

Næstved IF Næstved () is a town in the municipality of the same name, located in the southern part of the island of Zealand in Denmark. Næstved has several adult education centers, five elementary schools - and has at least one of each type of the four ...

in 1983. He went on to play for

Herfølge BK 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 Holmebæk ...

and

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. He moved to

, where he won the 1990 and 1991 Danish championships. When Jensen wasn't selected by Brøndby IF manager

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for the 1991

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semi-finals against

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club

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, the disappointed Jensen moved back to Næstved IF. In 1993, he was brought to F.C. Copenhagen, Brøndby IF's local rivals. F.C. Copenhagen reached the 1995

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final, where Jensen was named

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as the club won 5–0 against

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. He ended his career in 1998, after a combined 138 games and five goals for F.C. Copenhagen. In 2006, he left his job as assistant coach in F.C. Copenhagen, to replace

Niels-Christian Holmstrøm Niels-Christian Holmstrøm (born 23 February 1947) is a Danish former football player, manager, chief consultant in Team Danmark and sports director of Danish football club F.C. Copenhagen. Currently he is the chairman of Kjøbenhavns Boldkl ...

as head of sports in the club. In January 2012, he replaced F.C. Copenhagen's head coach Roland Nilsson, who was fired earlier the same day. He will continue functioning as director of football, as well. On 25 May 2012 after he failed to secure the 2011–12 Danish Championship, it was announced that he would step down as manager and continue only as Director of Football. On 28 April 2014, Jensen was fired as director of football in F.C. Copenhagen after declining results for the team. In June 2015, Jensen was appointed

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at FC Nordsjælland. He left the job in July 2019, to become Executive Director of Football at

Honours

Brøndby *

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1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

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Copenhagen *

: 1994–95, 1996–97 *

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: 1995

References

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