Lasse Qvist

Lasse Qvist

Personal information
Date of birth	(1987-01-17) 17 January 1987
Place of birth	Roskilde, Denmark
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Centre forward
Team information
Current team	GVI
Number	9
Youth career
	Himmelev-Veddelev
0000–2001	KFUM Roskilde
2001–2004	Lyngby BK
2004–2005	PSV Eindhoven
2005–2006	KB
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2006–2008	FC Copenhagen	8	(2)
2008–2009	Lyngby BK	15	(4)
2009–2011	Nordvest FC	15	(12)
2011	Næstved BK	11	(2)
2012	Víkingur Gøta	8	(1)
2012–2013	FC Helsingør	1	(1)
2013–	GVI
International career‡
2002	Denmark U-16	3	(2)
2003–2004	Denmark U-17	20	(18)
2004–2005	Denmark U-18	2	(0)
2004–2006	Denmark U-19	16	(2)
2007	Denmark U-21	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 July 2012 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 February 2007

Lasse Qvist (born 17 January 1987) is a Danish professional football player, who plays as a striker for GVI.

Life and career

Born in Roskilde, Qvist started playing football in local clubs Himmelev-Veddelev BK and KFUM Roskilde. From his early years, Lasse Qvist was a fan of F.C. Copenhagen (FCK), and as an 8-year-old boy, he had an FCK-shirt with the number 11 and his name printed on the back.

Aged 14, he switched to the bigger club Lyngby BK and went on to play for various Danish youth national teams. He scored 18 goals in 20 matches for the Danish under-17 national team, and won the 2003 Danish Under-17 Player of the Year award. He also played at the 2003 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship. After three years at Lyngby, he moved to the youth academy of Dutch team PSV Eindhoven. He had a hard time getting any social contacts with his PSV team mates, as most of them lived in Belgium and went home straight after training.

He moved back to Denmark in 2005, and went on to play for Kjøbenhavns Boldklub (KB), the reserve team of F.C. Copenhagen (FCK). In November 2006, Qvist got his first team début for FCK, when he played the last 30 minutes of the Royal League match against Lillestrøm S.K. at Åråsen Stadium. He was brought on as substitute for Jeppe Brandrup.

Honours

• 2003 Danish Under-17 Player of the Year
• Danish Superliga: 2006-07 (with Copenhagen)

External links

• Lasse Qvist national team profile at the Danish Football Association (in Danish)
• F.C. Copenhagen profile at archive.today (archived 13 June 2007)