Rune Pedersen (footballer)
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| Rune Pedersen | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Rune Pedersen | |
| Date of birth | October 9, 1979 | |
| Place of birth | Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Nottingham Forest | |
| Number | 20 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 2000-2003 2003 2003-2005 2005- |
F.C. Copenhagen Modena F.C. Aarhus GF Nottingham Forest |
32 (0) ? (?) 25 (0) 19 (0) |
| National team | ||
| 1995 1995-1996 1996 2000-2001 |
Denmark under-16 Denmark under-17 Denmark under-19 Denmark under-21 |
2 (0) 6 (0) 1 (0) 8 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Rune Pedersen (born October 9, 1979) is a Danish professional footballer who plays for English club Nottingham Forest. He plays as goalkeeper. He has played 17 matches for various Danish youth national teams.
[edit] Biography
Born in Copenhagen, Rune Pedersen started his career off at clubs in his hometown. He played youth football with Hvidovre IF, before moving to Kjøbenhavns Boldklub (KB), the reserve team of F.C. Copenhagen (FCK) in the top-flight Danish Superliga championship. While at KB, he was called up for a number of national youth team matches. He got his first team debut for FCK in August 2000, when he replaced the injured Michael Stensgaard. Pedersen played well, and in November 2000, he was called up for the Denmark under-21 national team.
He went on to win two Superliga championships with FCK, but never fully established himself as FCK's starting goalkeeper. He saw competition from a number of goalkeepers, including Swedish international goalkeeper Magnus Kihlstedt and Norwegian international goalkeeper Thomas Myhre. After two and a half years with FCK, he rejected a contract offer from the club in January 2003. He trained with English club Chelsea FC, but did not get a contract offer. Instead, he was sold to Italian club Modena F.C. in the Serie A championship. Pedersen only spent half a year with the club, before he was released in the summer 2003, after claiming he did not enjoy life in Italy.
He trained with an English club once again, this time Portsmouth F.C., but finally moved back to Denmark to play for Aarhus GF (AGF) in August 2003. Initially a substitute for the three years younger Steffen Rasmussen, Pedersen made his AGF debut in April 2004, and was subsequently kept as starting goalkeeper. During the 2004-05 season, Rune Pedersen and five other players were fined for partying on a night where the team lost to Aalborg BK. He denied paying the fine, and even though the club later dropped the claim, Rune Pedersen was finished in AGF. When Nottingham Forest went on a pre-season tour of Denmark in summer 2005, the then manager Gary Megson gave Rune a trial and he impressed Megson.
He started his first season in England as Nottingham Forest's first choice keeper before dropping down the pecking order when Paul Gerrard was reinstated. Then an injury crisis left Forest with only a very young and inexperienced youth team goalkeeper available, and they drafted in third choice West Bromwich Albion keeper Russell Hoult on loan. When Gerrard and Pedersen returned to full fitness, Hoult kept the first choice spot, which meant Pedersen was now third choice. After Hoult was recalled to West Brom and Gerrard picked up a knee injury, Pedersen was once again first choice. With the arrival of Paul Smith in July 2006, Pedersen was once again second choice.
[edit] Honours
- Danish Superliga: 2001 and 2003
[edit] External links
- Danish national team profile
- F.C. Copenhagen statistics
- (Danish) AGF profile
- Soccerbase career statistics
| Nottingham Forest F.C. - Current Squad |
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1 Smith | 3 Chambers | 4 Gary Holt | 5 Morgan | 6 Breckin | 7 Prutton | 8 Commons | 9 Tyson | 10 Dobie | 11 Grant Holt | 14 Lester | 15 Henry | 16 Clingan | 17 Perch | 20 Pedersen | 21 Curtis | 23 Agogo | 25 James | 27 Hughes | 29 Bennett | 37 McGugan | 38 Redmond | 39 Bencherif | –– Wright | Manager: Calderwood |
