Torben Piechnik

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Torben Piechnik (born 21 May 1963) is a Danish former professional football player in the defender position. He made a total of 15 appearances for the Danish national team, which he represented in the 1992 European Championship and 1996 European Championship.

Born in Hellerup, Piechnik played for a number of Danish clubs, before debuting for the national team while playing at B 1903. He was part of the Danish national squad which won the 1992 European Championship and played in the final. After the tournament, he followed the majority of the B 1903 players into the merging FC Copenhagen club. He was signed by Graeme Souness for Liverpool FC in September 1992. He made 16 first-team league appearances for Liverpool in the 1992-93 season, but only managed one in the whole of the 1993-94 season. He transferred to AGF Aarhus in Denmark at the end of the season, with whom he won the 1996 Danish Cup. He was called up to represent Denmark at the 1996 European Championship, where he played the last national team match of his career. He retired from AGF in 1999.

He now works as a real estate agent, while still playing "Old Boys" football in Denmark.

[edit] Honours

• Danish Cup: 1996
• 1992 European Championship

[edit] External links

• Danish national team profile
• Soccerbase career statistics
• Torben Piechnik, WHY DANISH DAN WILL BE THE MAN FOR REDS, Liverpool FC, February 9, 2006
• Hugh Larkin, Whatever Happened to: Torben Piechnik (Liverpool) at SquareFootball.net

	Denmark squad - 1992 UEFA European Football Champions
1 Schmeichel | 2 Sivebæk | 3 K. Nielsen | 4 Olsen | 5 Andersen | 6 Christofte | 7 Jensen | 8 Mølby | 9 Povlsen | 10 Elstrup | 11 Laudrup | 12 Piechnik | 13 Larsen | 14 Frank | 15 Christensen | 16 Krogh | 17 Christiansen | 18 Vilfort | 19 P. Nielsen | 20 Bruun | Coach: Møller Nielsen

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