FOOTBALL PLAYER PROFILE CV
Jakob Benner Lundgaard
Age : 20
Your County : Great Britian
Your Nationality : Denmark
Best Position : Goalkeeper
Current Club : Southall FC
Previous Clubs : Varde FC, Skjern FC, Fasther/Hanning, Nordenskov, Helle Vest
Which Club you want a trials for : QPR
Country you live : London SW15 5LQ
Tell us about your football history (Min 50 words) : I started playing football in the age of 6. It was a very talent team and when we became about 9 years old we were the second best team in Jutland and down to somewhere in Germany. At this time I played on the field mostly as the midfielder. Then my family moved to another town, Nordenskov, where I started to play for NUIF. One day our team needed a goalkeeper and I volunteered and since then I have been in goal most of the time. In the age of 12 I moved to a bigger club called Helle Vest. The team was a collection from many small clubs that all had few or several good players to send to Helle Vest. When I played for Helle Vest a scout came and saw my team play. He sent three of us to talent training in Esbjerg Football Club (EFB.dk). In EFB I got training from an old national goalkeeper, Ole Kjær, and another earlier top goalkeeper, Kaj Stefansen, from EFB. When I was 15 years old I went to a sort on continuations school, Blaakilde, that we have a lot of in Denmark. The school I went to was not known as a good football place, but in my first year our team went to round 6 in the biggest school football tournament in the world. The second year my school played against teams like Lyngs Continuations School which at that moment had 4 U16 players from the national team. And we beat them! Never before and never since has my school got that far. Back home again I went straight to the senior team in my local town as the youngest player they have ever had, but the league was not better than Sunday football. After only 5 matches another and better team called me and wanted me to play for them. They were 3 leagues above. In the time where I turned 18 years old I moved to Skjern to get closer to my studies. I started playing for “Faster/Hanning”. It was an okay standard but not impressive. I did well in 1½ year and then Skjern FC and Varde Elite (http://vifelite.dk/) wanted me to come joining them. Varde is a second division team (league 1) and was looking for an upcoming goalkeeper. They wanted me for a tryout and that went well. The problem was for me that they did train four times in a week and my travel time was one and half hour each way.In the same time I was busy with my A Levels. Therefor I choose go to Skjern FC which had a team in serie 1 which is like Ryman league. They already had a keeper for the first team and needed one for the second team. After the preseason I was the first team keeper. Unfortunately I got injured in my left shoulder 4 days before season kick off. Then I was out for 5 months and in that time I graduated A-levels. After graduating I moved back to my parents in Nordenskov which is close to Varde. I started training with Varde again but in the main time between my first visit and this visit they had got two very good goalkeepers. Especially the guy, Andre, from the pro team; Sønderjyske was very good. Varde needed three goalkeepers and had a lot of different people on a try. They desisted to offer me a contract but I choose, after many considerations, to move to London and try something else with my life. In London I found Southall have been playing for the reserves since then. The first team goalkeeper is a former national goalkeeper for Gambia.
Write about your Playing Ability (Min 50 words) : I am good one against one, strong reflects and love to be a part of the game. I am not that tall (180cm) but I jump very high and read the game.
Why should an Academy Director give you a trial (Min 50 words) : When I turned 16 and started playing in a shit leageu backhome in Denmark no one thought that I would get very far with my football. 3½ years later I got a chance to get my first semipro contract. Every day I have been a hard work and I love to work for something that I wants. I will always try to be the best and make my dream come true.
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