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Rasmus Lauritsen
Personal information
Full name Rasmus Steensbæk Lauritsen
Date of birth (1996-02-27) 27 February 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Brande‚ Denmark
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Team information
Current team
 Dinamo Zagreb
Number 6
Youth career
Brande IF[1]
0000 –2011 Herning Fremad[1]
2011–2015 FC Midtjylland
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2016 FC Midtjylland 1 (0)
2016–2017 Skive IK 31 (3)
2017–2019 Vejle BK 41 (7)
2019–2020 IFK Norrköping 48 (11)
2020– Dinamo Zagreb 11 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:10, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Rasmus Steensbæk Lauritsen (born 27 February 1996) is a Danish footballer who plays as a centre back for Prva HNL side Dinamo Zagreb.

Youth career

Lauritsen has both played for Herning Fremad and Brande IF [da] as a youth player, before joining FC Midtjylland in the summer 2011.[2]

Lauritsen started playing football in Brande at the age of 4.[2]

Club career

FC Midtjylland

At the age of 19, Lauritsen got his official debut for FC Midtjylland on 8 November 2015, in a Superliga game against Esbjerg fB.[3] Lauritsen started on the bench, but replaced Kian Hansen in the 85nd minute and FCM won 5-1.

Skive IK

On 5 January 2016 Danish 1st Division-side Skive IK confirmed, that they had signed Lauritsen on a 2-year contract.[4]

Vejle Boldklub

Lauritsen signed for Vejle Boldklub on 9 June 2017 for two years.[5] A few months later the club extended Lauritsen's contract for one more year.[6]

IFK Norrköping

On 11 February 2019 Rasmus moved abroad and signed for Swedish top club IFK Norrköping on a three-year deal.[7]

Dinamo Zagreb

On 2 October 2020, Lauritsen signed for Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb.[8] He debuted two days later against Varaždin and made an error that resulted in a goal. However, his performances soon drastically improved and had an instant impact on Dinamo's defense, causing them not to concede a single goal in all five Europa League group stage games that he played.[9][10]

Private life

Lauritsen has a twin brother, Frederik, who also plays football.[11]

His favourite player is Andy Carroll and his favourite team is Arsenal.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b Rasmus Lauriten FCM profile, fcm.dk
  2. ^ a b "Viljefast Lokaltalent Ny Akademispiller". fcmklubsamarbejdet.dk.
  3. ^ "Debutant: Var egentlig ved at varme ned". fcm.dk. 8 November 2015.
  4. ^ "Rasmus Lauritsen på plads i SIK!". Skive IK. 5 January 2016.
  5. ^ "Vejle henter ung stopper i Skive". bold.dk. 9 June 2017.
  6. ^ "Rasmus Lauritsen Forlænger". vejle-boldklub.dk. 22 September 2017.
  7. ^ "IFK Norrköping värvar Rasmus Lauritsen". ifknorrkoping.se. 11 February 2019.
  8. ^ "Dinamovo novo pojačanje: Rasmus Lauritsen!". GNK Dinamo (in Croatian). 2 October 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ Olivari, Davorin (30 November 2020). "Ono što je ostvario Dinamo u posljednjih je deset godina uspjelo samo Man. Unitedu i još jednom klubu". Sportske novosti (in Croatian). Retrieved 30 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ Tironi, Hrvoje (11 December 2020). "Razgoropadio je Lovru Majera, a Lauritsenom učvrstio obranu". 24sata (in Croatian). Retrieved 12 December 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ Frederik Lauritsen
  12. ^ Rasmus Lauritsen at FCM, fcm.dk
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