Martin Vingaard (born 20 March 1985) is a Danish former professional

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who played as a

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. He currently manages the under-17 team of

FC Copenhagen Football Club Copenhagen ( da, Football Club København, ), commonly known as FC København, FC Copenhagen, Copenhagen or simply FCK, is a professional Danish football club in Copenhagen, Denmark. FCK was founded in 1992 as a superstructure on ...

Club career

Vingaard was born in

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, Denmark, and grew up in the suburb of Fangel. After a strong season with his club

, Vingaard was one of the nominees for

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2010, an award eventually won by teammate and captain

William Kvist William Vitved Kvist (né Kvist Jørgensen; born 24 February 1985) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Danish club Copenhagen as well as for the Denmark national team. He played 43 matches and scored fou ...

. On 22 April 2019, Vingaard signed for the rest of the season with

HB Køge HB Køge () is a professional Danish football club based primarily in the town of Herfølge, and secondly in the town of Køge, both in the Køge Municipality, part of 'Region of Zealand', in the eastern part of Zealand, south of Copenhagen. ...

. His retirement from football was announced on 16 July 2020.

International career

He scored his first goal for the

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in the friendly match against

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on 1 June 2008.

Coaching career

At the end of July 2020, he was appointed under-17s assistant coach of his former club,

. On 21 December 2021 Copenhagen confirmed, that Vingaard had taken charge of the clubs under-15 team. He took over as head coach of the under-17s in September 2022.

Honours

Copenhagen *

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: 2008–09, 2009–10,

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2012–13 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. ...

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: 2008–09, 2011–12 Individual * ''

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'' Player of the Spring: 2018

References

External links

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Martin Vingaard
on DBU
Official Danish Superliga stats
1985 births Living people Danish men's footballers Danish expatriate men's footballers Denmark men's international footballers Esbjerg fB players F.C. Copenhagen players FC Nordsjælland players Tampa Bay Rowdies players HB Køge players Danish Superliga players Danish 1st Division players North American Soccer League (2011–2017) players USL Championship players Denmark men's youth international footballers Denmark men's under-21 international footballers Footballers from Odense Men's association football midfielders Boldklubben 1913 players Danish expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Dalum IF players {{Denmark-footy-midfielder-stub