Morten Skoubo

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Personal information
Morten Skoubo
Full name	Morten Skoubo
Date of birth	June 30, 1980
Place of birth	Holstebro, Denmark
Height	190 cm
Position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Real Sociedad
Youth clubs
	Struer Boldklub Lemvig Holstebro Boldklub Ikast fS
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1999-2002 2002-2004 2004 2004-2005 2006-	FC Midtjylland Borussia M'gladbach WBA (loan) Brøndby IF Real Sociedad	56 (24) 28 (4) 2 (0) 41 (19) 18(5)
National team**
2003-	Denmark	4 (1)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of November 17, 2004. ** National team caps and goals correct as of March 2, 2006.

Morten Skoubo (born June 30, 1980) is a Danish professional footballer who currently plays for Real Sociedad in Spain. Skoubo's strength on the playing field is most notably his physical strength, height and heading power, which makes him a typical targetman in the attack. He has played four games for the Danish national team and scored a single goal.

1 Biography
2 Honours
3 Footnotes
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Skoubo was born in Struer, Denmark. He got his breakthrough in the Danish Superliga club FC Midtjylland when he scored 19 goals in 27 games during the 2001-02 season, and when prolific German club Borussia Mönchengladbach wanted him in the team at the start of the next season, Skoubo made the switch. While in Germany, he made his debut for the Danish national team on July 11, 2003, though his club career in Germany never took off. Gladbach put him out on loan at English team West Bromwich Albion, however he was back at Gladbach again after six months, having only played two games. For the Danish Superliga 2004-05 season Danish top club Brøndby IF was looking for new strikers following a season of ending second, and Skoubo moved back to Denmark in a €600,000 transfer deal.^[1]

In Brøndby he regained his good form from his Midtjylland days, and Skoubo formed a partnership with Swedish international Johan Elmander, Skoubo playing as the targetman and Elmander playing in a deep-lying role, which was successful in securing the Double for Brøndby, winning both the Danish Superliga championship as well as the Danish Cup. In his one and a half years at the club, Skoubo scored 29 goals in 63 competitive matches, including 2 goals in 3 matches in the UEFA Cup 2005-06 tournament, and followingly Skoubo signed for Spanish club Real Sociedad in a €2,500,000^[2] deal in January 2006.

On February 19, 2006, he scored the fourth fastest goal in La Liga history, bagging a goal after just 11 seconds against Valencia CF, even though the game was lost 1–2.

[edit] Honours

Danish Superliga: 2004–05
Danish Cup: 2004–05

[edit] Footnotes

^ (Danish) Morten Skoubo til Brøndby IF, Brondby.com, August 13, 2004
^ (Danish) Brøndby IF sælger Morten Skoubo, Brondby.com, January 9, 2006

[edit] External links

Real Sociedad - Current Squad
1 Riesgo \| 2 Gerardo \| 3 M. González \| 4 Rivas \| 5 Juanito \| 6 Labaka \| 7 Jáuregi \| 8 Garitano \| 9 Kovačević \| 10 Novo \| 11 Aranburu \| 12 Skoubo \| 14 Aitor \| 15 Ansotegui \| 16 Gari \| 17 Rossato \| 18 Cifuentes \| 19 Garrido \| 20 Felício \| 21 Stevanovic \| 22 M. Alonso \| 23 D. de Cerio \| 24 X. Prieto \| 25 Bravo \| 40 Agirretxe \| Manager: Bakero