Mogens Berg is a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 former football

Football (soccer)

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 player, who played professionally as a winger for Scottish

Scotland

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 club Dundee United

Dundee United F.C.

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. He played eight games and scored one goal for the Denmark national football team

Denmark national football team

The Denmark national football team represents Denmark in association football and is controlled by the Danish Football Association , the governing body for the football clubs which are organized under DBU...

.

Career

Born in Odense

Odense

The city of Odense is the third largest city in Denmark.Odense City has a population of 167,615 and is the main city of the island of Funen...

, Berg started his career with local club Boldklubben 1909

Boldklubben 1909

Boldklubben 1909, known as B 1909, is a Danish association football club currently playing in the Denmark Series Pool 2. They play at Gillested Park in Odense on Funen, which has a capacity of 6,000...

 (B 1909). He helped B 1909 win the 1962 Danish Cup

Danish Cup

The Danish Cup is the official "knockout" cup competition in Danish football, run by the Danish Football Association. The cup has been contested annually since 1955...

 and 1964 Danish football champions

Danish football champions

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hip trophies, and made his Danish national team debut in November 1964. He debuted under national manager Poul Petersen

Poul Petersen (footballer)

Poul Petersen was a Danish football player and manager.During his career he played for AB, and earned 34 caps for the Denmark national football team from 1946 to 1952. He won a bronze medal in football at the 1948 Summer Olympics, and also participated four years later in 1952...

, and scored a goal as Denmark lost 2-4 to Greece

Greece national football team

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. He played a further two national team games, before he moved abroad to play professionally for Dundee United

Dundee United F.C.

Dundee United Football Club is a Scottish professional football club located in the city of Dundee. Formed in 1909, originally as Dundee Hibernian, the club changed to the present name in 1923...

 in December 1964.

Due to the Danish rules of amateurism, Berg's national team career then went on a hiatus. Berg played for Dundee United at Tannadice

Tannadice Park

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 for more than three years, before returning to play for B 1909 in May 1968. He re-entered the Danish national team in May 1971, as he helped B 1909 win the 1971 Danish Cup. Mogens Berg played five national team games under national manager Rudi Strittich

Rudi Strittich

Rudi Strittich was an Austrian football coach and former player.-Club career:He debuted for Vorwärts Steyr, and later played for First Vienna FC. While with First Vienna, he went on a tour of the Middle East and upon returning was arrested along with two other players for smuggling narcotics into...

, before his national career ended in June 1971.

Honours

Danish Cup

Danish Cup

The Danish Cup is the official "knockout" cup competition in Danish football, run by the Danish Football Association. The cup has been contested annually since 1955...

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• • Winner (2): 1962, 1971 Danish Championship
    Danish football champions
    The Danish football champions are the winners of the highest league of football in Denmark. The title has been contested since 1913, in a varying form of competitions. Since 1991, the winners have been found through the Danish Superliga championship...
    
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  • Winner (1): 1964

External links

• Danish national team profile