Michael Gravgaard

Who is this?

Michael Julius Gravgaard (born 3 April 1978) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He began his career at Randers Freja. During his stay at Viborg, he occasionally played as a forward. With Copenhagen, he won the league title twice. His international career took place from August 2005 until September 2007, during which he played 18 matches and scored five goals for the Denmark national team. He effectively ended his playing career at Nantes in May 2010. Despite the fact of having a contract with Nantes until July 2011, the club were not interested to honour the contract, and opted instead in May 2010, to try to file him as "lifetime injured" towards their insurance company. When this attempt ultimately got unapproved by the French authorities, and Gravgaard had passed all additional health checks, the club then opted in January 2011, to dismiss him permanently from the club – a half year prematurely. Forced by that, Gravgaard announced in January 2011, that he would now end his active playing career for good, and that he would continue – at least for the next half year – to work as a football commentator, pundit and analyst at the Danish TV channel Canal 9.

Career

1. 1978
   Born
2. 1996
   Joined Randers Sportsklub Freja
3. 2000
   Joined Randers FC
4. 2003
   Joined Viborg FF
5. 2005
   Joined F.C. Copenhagen
6. 2005
   Joined Denmark men's national football team
7. 2008
   Joined FC Nantes
8. 2009
   Joined Hamburger SV

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Randers
• •Citizenship: Kingdom of Denmark
• •Known as: association football player
• •Sport: association football