Chris Sørensen (born 27 July 1977) is a retired Danish professional

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player. He has played five matches for the

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Club career

He began playing youth football with amateur club Randers KFUM. He spent some years in the youth teams of

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, but quickly returned to KFUM. He played in the lower leagues of Danish football with KFUM, before joining

under manager Frank Petersen at the age of 21 in 1998. He started as a left winger, but was eventually moved back as left back by Freja manager

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. He played in a Freja team also containing

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and Svenne Poulsen, and helped the club move from the third-tier

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to the second-tier

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, before moving to 1st Division rivals

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under Frank Petersen in 2002.

Odense Boldklub

He joined

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(OB) on loan in the winter break of the

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season, and impressed enough that he was signed on a permanent deal before the season started. He quickly established himself in the starting line-up, playing the last 13 games of that season as OB finished fifth. For the following six seasons, Sørensen would miss only three Superliga games. He helped the club finish third in the

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, and was named for the 2006 "Danish Team of the Year". He was named

Ulrik Laursen Ulrik Rosenløv Laursen (born 28 February 1976) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a defender. Laursen was predominantly used in the centre, but was also competent as a left back. Career Laursen began his career at OB, w ...

's vice-team captain, and was part of the OB team which won the 2007 Danish Cup Final. He was again named for the 2007 "Danish Team of the Year". In November 2007, he received his first

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of his OB career in a game against

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. He was evicted for intervening in a confrontation between OB's Norwegian

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and Randers' Ghanaian Issah Ahmed by stating that "this is Denmark", which the referee deemed "indecent language" towards Ahmed. Sørensen stated that he did not have any racistic intention but wanted to end the confrontation which he found an annoying pause in the game, and had finished the sentence "and we clearly don't speak the same language". The explanation was accepted by the

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, who did not impose any additional punishment except from the one-game suspension due to the red card. When Laursen left OB in the winter 2007, Sørensen declined to become new team captain, settling as vice-captain to

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. He eventually established himself as captain during Hansen's prolonged absence from the team and subsequent loan deal in the summer 2009. Sørensen helped OB finish second in the Danish Superliga 2008-09 and Danish Superliga 2009-10 seasons.

Randers FC

In the start of 2012 he signed a 2 year long contract with

International career

Sørensen was called up for the

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, to play a number of unofficial national team games in the

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in January 2006, by national team manager

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. He was hospitalized due to dehydration after the first game, but returned to the team for the third and last game of the tour. He was again called up for the League XI tours in January 2007, 2008, and 2009, playing a combined total seven games for the team. In October 2007, he was included by Olsen in the A national team, and made his debut in the 3–1 win against

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in the

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tournament. He played a further two qualification games in November 2007. He played his fourth national team game in a row in February 2008, before he was dropped from the team in favour of

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. He returned to the national team in February 2009, playing his fifth game. He was called up again in August 2009, but had to pull out of the squad injured. In July 2017, Sørensen was part of the Danish squad for the first-ever

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tournament at the

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. Scoring four goals en route to the final, he ended up being voted Star of the Tournament ahead of

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and

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lost the final against

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1-2.

Honours

OB *

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: 2006–07

References

External links

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statistics at danskfodbold.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Sorensen, Chris Living people 1977 births Danish men's footballers Denmark men's international footballers Randers FC players Vejle Boldklub players Odense Boldklub players Vendsyssel FF players Danish Superliga players Danish 1st Division players Men's association football defenders Footballers from Randers