Jimmy Nielsen

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Personal information
Jimmy Nielsen
Full name	Jimmy Nielsen
Date of birth	August 6, 1977
Place of birth	Aalborg, Denmark
Height	191 cm
Nickname	Casino Jimmy
Position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	AaB Aalborg
Youth clubs
	B 52 Aalborg AaB Aalborg
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1994-1995 1995-	Millwall F.C. AaB Aalborg	0 (0) 317 (0)
National team**
1997-1999	Denmark u-21	17 (0)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of September 10, 2006. ** National team caps and goals correct as of October 8, 1999.

Jimmy Nielsen (born August 6, 1977 in Aalborg, Denmark) is a Danish professional football (soccer) player, who has played every match for AaB Aalborg in the Danish Superliga since 1997. He is a goalkeeper, and on occasion he has featured in the Danish national team setup, though he has never been on the pitch.

Jimmy Nielsen started his career in local club "B 52 Aalborg" before signing for English club Millwall F.C.. He did not play for the club and moved back to Denmark, settling in at AaB in 1995. He made his debut in 1996, quickly becoming the starting goalkeeper, and Jimmy Nielsen has been one of the cornerstones of AaB ever since, culminating in the Danish Superliga 1998-99 championship, and he is the current team captain of AaB.

During a session with the Denmark national under-21 football team in 1999, Jimmy and some teammates went to the Munkebjerg casino in Vejle at night to gamble. Jimmy was subsequently excluded from all national team practices, a ban that lasted several years. This earned Nielsen the nick-name Casino-Jimmy. In April 2004, Jimmy Nielsen and fellow teammate David Nielsen raked up a debt of £160,000[1] with Aalborg bookies, though AaB director Lynge Jacobsen decided to help out both financially as well as giving the team councelling lessons for gambling addiction.

[edit] Honours

Goalkeeper of the Year in Denmark: 1998, 2004
Danish Superliga, 1998-99, with AaB

[edit] External links

AaB - Current Squad
1 J. Nielsen \| 2 M. Jakobsen \| 3 Pedersen \| 4 Califf \| 5 J.R. Jacobsen \| 7 Lindström \| 8 Winsnes \| 9 Augustinussen \| 10 Prica \| 14 Curth \| 15 Nomvethe \| 16 A. Olesen \| 18 Caca \| 19 S. Olsen \| 20 Bræmer \| 21 Risgård \| 22 Würtz \| 23 Enevoldsen \| 24 Sørensen \| 25 Chrys \| 27 Kristensen \| 28 C. Jacobsen \| 29 El-Hajj \| 30 Stenild \| 31 L. Nielsen \| 32 Schwartz \| 36 Kortegaard \| Coach Hamrén