Søren Kusk Larsen (born 6 April 1960) is a Danish politician, professional

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and former

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. He represents the

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in the

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city council.

Football career

Kusk played football for AaB, where he made more than 150 first team appearances. His coaching career started with a number of smaller coaching jobs at AaB, both as an assistant and in the youth department, before becoming head coach of Aalborg Chang in 1994. Afterwards, he also coached

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and AaB. In 2005, he won promotion with

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to the

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, but stepped down from his position coach after being arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. In January 2008, he was hired as a talent coordinator for AaB, but stopped, after mutual agreement with AaB, due to

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which prevented him from carrying out his job.

Political career

In 2017, he was elected to the

council as a

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References

External links

AaB Oltimers Profile
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