Nemo Thomsen
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 5 April 2004 | ||
| Place of birth | Ilulissat, Greenland | ||
| Position(s) | Centre-Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Kolding IF | ||
| Number | 9 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2019 | Nagdlunguaq-48 | ||
| 2019–2021 | SønderjyskE | ||
| 2021– | Kolding IF | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Nagdlunguaq-48 | |||
| International career‡ | |||
| 2020– | Greenland | ||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:05, 18 August 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:05, 18 August 2022 (UTC) | |||
Nemo Thomsen (born 5 April 2004) is a Greenlandic association footballer who currently plays for Kolding IF and the Greenland national team.[1]
Club career
Thomsen is from Ilulissat, Greenland.[2] During the 2018 Greenlandic Football Championship he scored a hattrick for Nagdlunguaq-48 at age fourteen to become the youngest goalscorer in the tournament.[3][4]
In 2019 he moved to Southern Jutland in Denmark for more footballing opportunities.[2] Shortly thereafter he began playing for the academy of SønderjyskE while living with a host family for six months before moving into player housing on Louisevej.[5] Following his move to Kolding IF, Thomsen made his debut for the U17 side on 1 April 2021 in a spring season 3–0 victory over Næstved U17.[6]
International career
Thomsen represented Greenland in futsal at the 2018 Arctic Winter Games in Canada's Northwest Territories. Going into the semi-finals, he was the juvenile male division's top scorer in the competition with eighteen goals.[7] He finished the tournament as top scorer with twenty-two goals, more than twice the number scored by any other single player, as Greenland beat Yamalo-Nenets in the final to win the gold medal.[8]
He received his first call up to the Greenland national football team by head coach Morten Rutkjær in October 2020. At 16 years old, he was the youngest player in the 40-man squad.[9][2] In August 2021, Rutkjær named Thomsen to the 24-man squad that would train and compete against several Danish clubs in Denmark the following month.[10][11][12] Thomsen was one of two Denmark-based players in the squad, along with Adam Ejler of HB Køge.[13]
He was then part of the roster for Greenland's first match against an official national team after beginning the process of joining CONCACAF, a hybrid friendly match against Kosovo U21 to be played in Turkey in September 2022.[14] In the opening match of the training camp, Thomsen converted a penalty for Greenland's only goal in a 1–6 defeat to Al-Kahrabaa of the Iraqi Premier League.[15]
References
- ^ "LANDSHOLDSBRUTTOTRUP" (in Danish). KAK. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ a b c "VIDEO Fodboldtalent udtaget til landsholdet: Min drøm nærmer sig" (in Danish). Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ Sommer, Karsten. "Ældste og yngste spiller scorede i målorgie" (in Danish). Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ Piccinelli, Marco. "Coca Cola GM 2018-Il B-67 torna a vincere su tutti, IT-79 terzo alle spalle dell'N-48" (in Italian). atlanticfootball.it. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ Hansen, Stig Kongsted. "HFK/SønderjyskE vil etablere netværk af værtsfamilier" (in Danish). Ugeavisen Haderslev. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ Christensen, Mark Tolstrup. "U17: Chanceskabende festfyrværkeri i fremragende forårssejr" (in Danish). IF Kolding. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ Sommer, Karsten. "AWG 2018 Grønlands fire Futsalhold styrer mod finalerne" (in Danish). Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ "Futsal Juvenile Male". Arctic Winter Games. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ Mølgaard, Noah. "Udtagelsen: Her er bruttotruppen til fodboldlandsholdet" (in Danish). Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ "Første samling for »nyt grønlands landshold: Vildbjerg er garant for kvalitet". Herning Folkeblad. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ Brøns, Malik. "Her er fodboldslandsholdstruppen" (in Danish). Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
- ^ Boyum, Klara. "Nemo og Gabi udtaget til deres respektive landshold" (in Danish). Kolding IF. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ MØLLER ANDERSEN, NINA-VIVI. "KAK: Vi forventer hårde kampe" (in Danish). sermitsiaq.ag. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ Hansen, Nukappiaaluk. "Fodbold: Landstræner har udtaget 20 spillere til træningslejr" (in Danish). Sermitsiaq. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
- ^ Hansen, Nukappiaaluk. "Positive takter trods nederlag" (in Danish). sermitsiaq.ag. Retrieved 22 September 2022.