Jesper Bech

Jesper Bech
Personal information
Date of birth	25 May 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth	Denmark
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
	Ålholm IF
	Skjold Birkerød
	B 1903
	Lyngby
	KB
Senior career*
Years	Team
2002–2005	Copenhagen
2005–2006	Malmö FF
2006–2009	Esbjerg fB
2009–2015	Silkeborg
2015–2016	Roskilde
International career
2001	Denmark U19
2003	Denmark U21
2006–2009	Denmark
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jesper Bech (born 25 May 1982) is a Danish former professional footballer. He played as a striker. He has gained two caps for the Denmark national team.

Biography

Bech played his youth years for Ålholm IF, Skjold Birkerød, B 1903, Lyngby BK and KB. He got his national breakthrough with F.C. Copenhagen in the Danish Superliga championship, where he debuted in April 2004. He scored seven goals in nine games during his first season, and helped the club win the 2003–04 Danish Superliga title as well as the 2004 Danish Cup trophy. In the following season, sharp competition from strikers Alvaro Santos and Sibusiso Zuma kept Bech out of his preferred striker role. He was either used as a substitute, or in the role of winger. Bech transferred to Swedish club Malmö FF in the summer 2005.

At Malmö, he looked to replace Swedish international striker Markus Rosenberg before the UEFA Champions League qualification, but Bech never got a breakthrough at the club. Following one year at Malmö, he moved back to Denmark to play for Esbjerg fB in the summer 2006. In the first half of the 2006–07 Superliga season, Bech rediscovered his goal scoring form, and was at a time the joint top goalscorer of the league. On 15 November 2006 he got his Danish national team debut in a friendly match against the Czech Republic, when he came on the pitch in the second half, as a substitute for Peter Løvenkrands.

Honours

References

^ "Tirsdag 20/07 2004 kl. 18:30". fck.dk. Retrieved 4 January 2024.

External links

Jesper Bech at DR (in Danish) (archived)
Jesper Bech national team profile at the Danish Football Association (in Danish)
Jesper Bech on FC Roskilde (in Danish) at the Wayback Machine (archived 14 July 2015)
Jesper Bech at Soccerway

[1] "Tirsdag 20/07 2004 kl. 18:30". fck.dk. Retrieved 4 January 2024.

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