Jimmy Nielsen

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Personal information
Jimmy Nielsen
Date of birth	August 6, 1977 (age 29)
Place of birth	Aalborg, Denmark
Height	1.91 m
Nickname	Casino-Jimmy
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	AaB Aalborg
Number	1
Youth clubs
	B 52/Aalborg FC AaB Aalborg
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1994-1995 1995-	Millwall AaB Aalborg	0 (0) 329 (0)
National team²
1994-1997 1997-1999	Denmark u-19 Denmark u-21	11 (0) 17 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18 March 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of October 8, 1999. * Appearances (Goals)

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. In 1998 and 2004 he got the Danish goalkeeper award The Golden Goalie.

[edit] Biography

Jimmy Nielsen started his career in local club B 52/Aalborg FC and later AaB before signing for English club Millwall. 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 nickname Casino-Jimmy. In April 2004, Jimmy Nielsen and fellow teammate David Nielsen raked up a debt of £160,000 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.

In 2006, Jimmy published a self biography called 1000 på rød (lit. 1000 on red).