Jákup Mikkelsen
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jákup Nolsøe Mikkelsen | ||
| Date of birth | 14 August 1970 | ||
| Place of birth | Klaksvík, Faroe Islands | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | ÍF Fuglafjørður | ||
| Number | 1 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| KÍ Klaksvík | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1991–1994 | KÍ Klaksvík | 75 | (3) |
| 1995–2001 | Herfølge BK | 136 | (2) |
| 2001–2003 | Molde FK | 11 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Partick Thistle | 5 | (0) |
| 2004 | KÍ Klaksvík | 23 | (0) |
| 2005–2007 | B36 Tórshavn | 97 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | KÍ Klaksvík | 56 | (0) |
| 2010–2012 | ÍF Fuglafjørður | 86 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1995– | Faroe Islands | 73 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21 Oktober 2012. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Jákup Nolsøe Mikkelsen (born 14 August 1970 in Klaksvík) is a Faroese football goalkeeper currently playing for ÍF Fuglafjørður, after signing a deal in early 2010.[1][2] He is also one of the goal keepers of the Faroe Islands national football team. On 7 September 2012 the Faroese Football Association was told, that Jákup Mikkelsen is the oldest goal keeper in the world, who has played an international football match for his country. He was 42 years old and one day when he played against Iceland in a friendly match on 16 August 2012.[3] Mikkelsen is the second most capped player of the Faroese national team with 73 matches. Only Óli Johannesen has played more matches (83).[4]
Club career
Mikkelsen started at KÍ Klaksvík, before moving abroad to play for several years in Denmark and Norway. After a short spell at Scottish side Partick Thistle[5] he returned to the Faroe Islands. In the 1999/2000 season, he only missed 2 games in Herfølge BK's title winning season, hence becoming the first ever Faroese to win a league championship in any other country than Faroes and he played both games against Rangers in their 2000/2001 Champions League qualifying round and 4 more games in the UEFA Cup that season. He played 136 matches for Herfølge BK. After playing for Herfølge for 5 years Mikkelsen and his team won the Danish Championship.[6]
In early 2010 Mikkelsen signed a deal with Faroese football club ÍF Fuglafjørður.[7]
International career
He was a part of the squad as a reserve goalkeeper already as 18 years old in the summer of 1988, when Faroes played their very first international game after becoming full members of FIFA, losing 1-0 to Iceland in Akranes. However, Mikkelsen only made his debut for the Faroe Islands in July 1995 friendly match against Iceland and has since earned 72 caps.[8] He was on the bench as early as in August 1988, when the Faroes played their first match since becoming a member of FIFA, in a friendly against Iceland in Akranes. [9]
Although having retired after the 2010 World Cup qualification, he was called up out of retirement for the Euro 2012 qualifying matches against Slovenia and Northern Ireland in October 2010, because of an injury to Gunnar Nielsen.[10]
Individual honours
- Effodeildin Best Goalkeeper: 2012
- Effodeildin Team of the Season: 2012
References
- ↑ Dagur & Vika, 22 January 2010
- ↑
- ↑ Sportal.fo, IFFHS forsetin: Jákup er tann elsti (The president of IFFHS: Jákup is the oldest)
- ↑ Football.fo, Landsliðsleikarar 1988 - 2012 (Players of the Faroe Islands national football team from 1988 to 2012
- ↑ News.BBC.co.uk
- ↑ Sportal.fo, 15 ár siðani fyrsta Herfølge-dystin (15 years since the first match for Herfølge.) in Faroese
- ↑ IF.fo, Jákup Mikkelsen er okkara (in Faroese, the headline means: Jákup Mikkelsen is ours)
- ↑ Football.fo, Landsliðsleikarar 1988 - 2012 (Players of the Faroe Islands national football team from 1988 to 2012
- ↑ Faroe Islands - Record International Players - RSSSF
- ↑ Sportal.fo, Jákup Mikkelsen verjir føroyska málið! (in Faroese)
External links
- Jákup Mikkelsen at National-Football-Teams.com
- {99E54A58-1527-4EDE-BE17-6349690F4C19}#{00B3DF76-3D6C-4B39-854C-AE6E3DD0023B} Football.fo, list over players on the Faroe Islands national team in the period 1988-2005.