Next week I moved back to the capital of Jutland after 38 years \u201caway from home\u201d. The reason I left Aarhus in the summer of 1981 was that I was \u201cforced to do so\u201d to complete my master\u2019s degree in Political Science and Physical Education. At that time, only P.E. was offered at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. It was not until the late 1990s that P.E. was established at Aarhus University.<\/p>\n
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Debut in \u201cFuglebakken\u201d \u2013 the working-class club on \u201cH\u00f8gevej\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nMy first experiences with sport were in 1963, when I, as a 6-year-old, became a member of the football club \u201cFuglebakken\u201d \u2013 a working-class club in the northwest part of Aarhus. Three years later, we moved to Fredensvang, where AGF\u2019s facilities became my \u201csecond home\u201d for a number of years. My first club, however, I had \u201cin the heart\u201d through all of my childhood and adolescence, not least because \u201cFuglebakken\u201d in 1970 qualified for the second league, where the following year was very close to qualify for the best league. \u201cFuglebakken\u201d, which played in the second league from 1970 to 1978, was a very special team with good abilities to score goals, but also with total lack of defense tactics and discipline. Therefore, results like 8-4, 7-2 and 3-6 were not unusual for the team\u2019s matches. I do not think Fuglebakken left the field one time in the nine seasons in the second league without scoring at both ends of the field. There was always \u201cvalue for money\u201d when the red-blue striped with the free-kick expert Kristen \u201cKesse\u201d Nygaard, the fast runner Lars Bastrup or the elegance Kim Sander \u2013 one of my good friends who unfortunately died of sclerosis at the age of just 35 \u2013 entertained in the relatively few spectators who followed the team at home field. The exception for a few spectators was the local derby\u2019s against AGF in the five seasons, when the \u201cbourgeoisie\u2019s club\u201d met \u201cthe working-class club from H\u00f8gevej\u201d. The local derby was in 1971, attended by more than 20,000 spectators in Aarhus Stadium, and in particular, the Fuglebakken\u2019s victory of 5-1 in 1976 remains clear in my memories. Overall, the city\u2019s football pride \u2013 AGF with 4 Danish Championships and 5 Cup titles in the period 1955-1965 \u2013 had a big crisis in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the club spent 7 seasons in the second league. The team played very physically and technical players were more than rare to find in the AGF lineup during that period. In 1977 AGF return to the best league and with profiles such as Troels Rasmussen, John Stampe and Lars Lundkvist, the club had a number of good years ahead of the Danish Championship in 1986. \u201cFuglebakken\u201d never succeeds to qualify for the best league and after relegation to fourth league in 1980 the \u201cadventure\u201d was ended.<\/p>\n
Sunday afternoons in Aarhus Stadium and Arena\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nI spent all Sunday afternoons in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s with football in Aarhus Stadium \u2013 Fuglebakken or AGF\u2019s home games at 13:30 \u2013 followed by two events in handball at 15:30 and 16:50 in Aarhus Arena. Denmark\u2019s World Championship silver medals in 1967 became the starting point for my interest in handball and the KFUM players: Erik Holst, J\u00f8rgen Vodsgaard, Iwan Christiansen and Klaus Kaae became my \u201cheroes\u201d and role models. Therefore, Aarhus KFUM also became my favorite team, even though I started playing handball for Viby IF \u2013 the club in Aarhus with the strongest youth teams. In the 1960s, Aarhus was called \u201cthe world\u2019s best handball city\u201d. In 1963, Aarhus KFUM won the Danish Championship with three other Aarhus clubs: AGF, IK Skovbakken and Viby IF on the subsequent places. Aarhus KFUM regained the Danish Championship in 1965 and with a total of 7 silver medals in the 1960s, Aarhus KFUM was called \u201cthe eternal two\u2019s\u201d in Danish handball. \u201cThe arch enemy\u201d was HG from Copenhagen, who became Danish Champions five years in a row from 1966 to 1970, with profiles such as Bent Mortensen, Verner Gaard, Carsten Lund, Gert Andersen, Palle \u201cthe wildman\u201d Nielsen and not least \u201cthe world\u2019s best handball player\u201d J\u00f8rgen Petersen. The battles for the Danish Championships between HG and Aarhus KFUM in a crowded Aarhus Arena is still today as some of my best spectator experiences.<\/p>\n
Aarhus KFUM played \u2013 just like \u201cFuglebakken\u201d \u2013 as I remember today always entertaining. The team captain, both in defense and attack, was Vodsgaard or \u201cViktor\u201d, who constantly and loudly commented on the performance of both teammates, opponents and especially the referees. Vodsgaard\u2019s successor as the \u201cM\u2019s\u201d captain became \u201cthe magician\u201d Steffen Holst \u2013 one of the greatest technical players that Danish handball has developed. Aarhus KFUM won the Danish Championship again in 1974, but the number of medals for Aarhus KFUM through the 1970s was unfortunately very modest. Only in the early 1980\u2019s did Aarhus clubs again have a great success with Danish Championships for Aarhus KFUM in 1980 and 1983 and IK Skovbakken in 1982 with my P.E.teacher from Viby Primary School \u2013 Hans Chr. Nielsen \u2013 as the coach. Subsequently, Aarhus \u2013 not even with \u201cAarhus Handball\u201d, which was founded by AGF, Brabrand IF, VRI and Aarhus KFUM at the turn of the millennium \u2013 has just been in the vicinity of the past.<\/p>\n
Everything has changed \u2013 except my passion for \u201ctop sports\u201d in Aarhus<\/strong><\/p>\nEverything has almost changed since I left Aarhus four decades ago: \u201cFuglebakken\u201d and Aarhus KFUM are combined with Hasle Boldklub, whose best football team plays in the seven league and the handball team is a part of Aarhus Handball. Today, AGF is primarily a limited company with new \u201cfacilities\u201d that contains separate changing rooms for the teams. The city\u2019s football pride \u2013 and not least their fans, who are always extremely optimistic before the start of the season \u2013 is neither challenged by Brabrand IF, Aarhus Fremad or VSK (Vejlby IK and IK Skovbakken), who all play in the third league. Aarhus Handball has (yet) failed to challenge the best handball clubs in Denmark: Aalborg Handball, GOG, Skjern Handball and BSV \u2013 despite a very large number of national team players residing in Aarhus. Nevertheless, in a few days I will again walk along Stadion All\u00e9 to the most beautiful sports facility in Denmark: \u201cCeres Park & \u200b\u200bArena\u201d in the Marselis forest. \u201cThe white ones from Fredensvang\u201d, which the people of Aarhus either love or hate, meet one of the most successful teams in Danish football: FCM, which is owned by a rich man from the UK. Before the start of the game I will listen to Thomas Helmig\u2019s \u201cMalaga\u201d and Gnags \u201cLav sol over Aarhus\u201d, which will give me memories of past achievements and the dreams of the future, both in and outside the world of sport. And I will be spectator for \u201ctop handball\u201d when Aarhus Handball plays \u201clocal dervy\u201d against BSH or Skanderborg Handball. \u201cFuglebakken\u201d and Aarhus KFUM are past: It is time to find new favorite teams for an \u201cold\u201d Aarhus boy who loves \u201ctop sports\u201d \u2013 especially in Aarhus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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