Christian Restorff Mouritsen (born 3 December 1988) is a Faroese

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who currently plays for 2. deild club

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as a

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Club career

Mouritsen joined the Manchester City Academy in the 2005 and signed a 3-year contract. He had been on trial with Brøndby and Everton, also several other clubs in

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and the

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had offered him a trial, but in the end decided to sign with

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. The Youth team reached the FA Youth Cup Final in the 2005/06 season, losing to

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in the Final 3–2 on aggregate. Although making many appearances for the Manchester City Youth and Reserve teams, after 3 years at the club he was released in July 2008 after his contract expired. Shortly after his release prior to

's match against

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, he was quoted as saying "I left City because they told me I wasn't good enough, so I've returned home to try something new". In August 2008 he rejoined

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, he only managed 20 minutes of playing time for HB before the 2008 season ended, because of injuries which kept him sidelined. He also has 2 brothers who were in the HB Tórshavn squad during the same period, younger brother Kristin and older brother Jóhan. His first match in

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was against

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, Mouritsen came on as substitute, deep into the second half. He only went on to make 6 league appearances from the bench that season for HB, before he transferred to rival club

B36 Tórshavn B36 Tórshavn () is a Faroese football club based in the capital of Tórshavn, playing in the Faroe Islands Premier League, the top tier of Faroese football. B36 Tórshavn has always played its home games in Gundadalur. Today B36 Tórshavn i ...

in the summer of 2009. Although his transfer from HB to B36 didn't go as smoothly as planned. Certain formalities weren't carried out before 28 July, when the transfer window had closed. HB pointed out to B36 that Mouritsen had been playing for them illegally, after which the appropriate documents were handed to FSF by B36. Later, it was revealed that the reason for the delay was an administrative mistake by B36. The Faroese Football Federation discussed the matter and decided that the transfer could not be accepted because the documents necessary had not been handed in on time. Though they reconsidered and on 21 August they gave Mouritsen permission to transfer to B36. Despite this, the second half of the 2009 season went a lot better for Mouritsen, scoring 2 goals in 9 starts for B36. After the season had ended, before Christmas in 2009 he went on a trial at

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along with fellow U-21 teammate

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. Jóan ended up going out on-loan to

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in 2010 until the end of the English season, but Brian Kerr said about Mouritsen "

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liked them both, but felt that Christian, at 21, needed first-team football, which Newcastle couldn’t offer him." In July 2010, Christian went on trial with English League One club

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. Christian signed for Valur in November 2010 along with two teammates from the Faroese national team, Jónas Þór Næs and

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International career

Mouritsen has represented the

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at Under-17, U19 and U21 level, as well at full international level. He was the Faroe Islands U-21 captain and was also part of the U-21 team that famously beat

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1–0 in the UEFA U-21 Championship qualifying match. He was picked in the main squad to face Poland in May 2006, but didn't get to make his appearance in the match. His first full cap came 3 years later when

took on

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in a friendly, in 2009. Faroe Islands won the match 2–1.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Faroe Islands' goal tally first.''

References

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