Lasse Qvist (born 17 January 1987) is a
Danish professional
football
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player, who plays as a
striker for
GVI.
Life and career
Born in
Roskilde
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, Qvist started playing football in local clubs
Himmelev-Veddelev BK and
KFUM Roskilde. From his early years, Lasse Qvist was a fan of
F.C. Copenhagen (FCK), and as an 8-year-old boy, he had an FCK-shirt with the number 11 and his name printed on the back.
Aged 14, he switched to the bigger club
Lyngby BK and went on to play for various Danish youth national teams. He scored 18 goals in 20 matches for the Danish under-17 national team, and won the 2003
Danish ''Under-17 Player of the Year'' award. He also played at the
2003
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UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship. After three years at Lyngby, he moved to the youth academy of
Dutch team
PSV Eindhoven
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. He had a hard time getting any social contacts with his PSV team mates, as most of them lived in
Belgium
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and went home straight after training.
[''FCK Balls'' #1, Advice A/S, Jesper Traunberg, November 2005, pp. 82-85]
He moved back to Denmark in 2005, and went on to play for
Kjøbenhavns Boldklub
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(KB), the
reserve team
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of F.C. Copenhagen (FCK). In November 2006, Qvist got his first team début for FCK, when he played the last 30 minutes of the
Royal League
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match against
Lillestrøm S.K. at
Åråsen Stadium. He was brought on as substitute for
Jeppe Brandrup.
Honours
*2003
Danish ''Under-17 Player of the Year''
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Danish Superliga
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:
2006-07 ''(with Copenhagen)''
References
External links
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1987 births
Living people
Danish men's footballers
Denmark men's under-21 international footballers
Danish Superliga players
KFUM Roskilde players
Lyngby Boldklub players
PSV Eindhoven players
F.C. Copenhagen players
Men's association football forwards
FC Helsingør players
Footballers from Roskilde
Holbæk B&I players
21st-century Danish sportsmen