Everything about Stig T Fting totally explained
| cityofbirth =
Hørning
| countryofbirth =
Denmark
| height =
| position =
Midfielder
| youthyears =
| youthclubs = Arbejder Sport Aarhus
AGF Aarhus
| years = 1989-1993
1993-1995
1994
1994, 1995
1995-1997
1997
1997-2000
2000
2000-2002
2002-2003
2003
2004
2005
2006-2007
| clubs =
AGF AarhusHamburger SV→
Odense BK (loan)
→AGF Aarhus (loan)
AGF Aarhus
Odense BK
MSV DuisburgAGF Aarhus
Hamburger SV
Bolton WanderersTianjin TedaAGF Aarhus
BK HäckenRanders FC
| caps(goals) = 95 (10)
8 (0)
7 (0)
70 (17)
12 (3)
69 (4)
7 (2)
48 (2)
14 (0)
17 (0)
29 (4)
23 (3)
30 (2)
| nationalyears = 1990-1992
1993-2002
| nationalteam =
Denmark u-21Denmark
| nationalcaps(goals) = 5 (0)
41 (2)
| manageryears = 2007-present
| managerclubs =
Randers FC (asst)
}}
Stig Tøfting (born
August 14,
1969 in
Hørning),
nicknamed
Tøffe, is a former
Danish professional
footballer who currently is assistant manager for
Colin Todd in
Randers FC in the
Danish Superliga. Tøfting played most of his games as a
defensive midfielder, and he was a hard-hitter who often engages in rash tackles. He started his career with
AGF Aarhus, with whom he won two
Danish Cups, and most notably went on to play for
German clubs
Hamburger SV and
MSV Duisburg, as well as
Bolton Wanderers in
England.
He played 41 matches for the
Danish national football team between 1993 and 2002, in which he scored 2 goals. With
Thomas Gravesen, Tøfting formed a fearsome midfield duo on the national team from 1998 to 2002, playing the
Euro 2000 and
2002 FIFA World Cup together.
Tøfting ended his playing career on
December 1 2007, where his last match was a 2-0 defeat to
Viborg FF.
Biography
Born in a suburb of
Aarhus, Stig Tøfting started his career at
Aarhus Gymnastik Forening (AGF), a team he'd frequently return to throughout his career. He made his senior debut for the club on
October 29,
1989, in the 1-0 victory against
Aalborg BK. He won the 1992
Danish Cup with the team, and was among the players selected to represent the
Danish under-21 national team at the
1992 Summer Olympics. He played full time in Denmark's three matches at the tournament, though the team didn't advance beyond the group stage. Tøfting made his debut for the Danish senior national team on
January 30,
1993, in a 2-2
friendly match draw with the
United States. He made his debut under Denmark coach
Richard Møller Nielsen, who dubbed Tøfting
Plæneklipperen (the
Lawn mower). Tøfting took part in a
1994 FIFA World Cup qualification game in March 1993.
Early career
In June 1993, Tøfting moved from AGF to
German team
Hamburger SV (HSV) in a
transfer deal worth
DEM 500,000. He took part in HSV's first three games of the
1993-94 Bundesliga season, before a knee injury side-lined him. He returned to the team in December 1993, but had a hard time forcing his way into the first team due to league restrictions on the number of foreign players in the starting line-up. He was loaned out to Danish club
Odense BK, playing the last 7 games of the
1993-94 Superliga season as Odense finished in fourth place. He was loaned out to AGF in the first half of the
1994-95 Superliga season, before returning to HSV in winter 1994. He played a further three games for HSV as a substistute, before he was once again loaned out to AGF in April 1995.
Tøfting returned to AGF on a permanent contract in June 1995 in a transfer deal worth
DKK 1,2 million. He was named
Man of the Match as he won his second Danish Cup triumph with AGF, and was called up for Denmark once again, after a three year hiatus. He was included in Møller Nielsen's Denmark squad for the
1996 European Championship (Euro 1996). He played the last 21 minutes of the 0-3 loss to
Croatia, which eliminated Denmark from the Euro 1996 tournament. Under the new Denmark boss,
Swedish coach
Bo Johansson who was appointed in June 1996, Tøfting was initially left out of the Danish national team.
German success
As his contract ran out in the summer 1997, Tøfting moved from AGF to league rivals Odense BK on a
free transfer. He didn't get along well with Odense coach
Roald Poulsen, and was suspended from the club in October 1997. Tøfting agreed a DKK 1 million move to defending Superliga champions
Brøndby IF, but as Odense increased their asking price to DKK 2 millions, the move fell through. He eventually moved back to Germany to play for
MSV Duisburg in January 1998, in a DKK 600,000 transfer deal. Despite being a newly
promoted team in the
1997-98 Bundesliga season, Duisburg reached the 1998
German Cup final, where they were defeated by
Bayern Munich. Tøfting was once more part of a Denmark squad at a big tournament, when he was picked for the
1998 FIFA World Cup. He again occupied the role as a bit-part player, with 60 minutes of play in two games his share of Denmark's five matches before elimination.
In June 1999, Stig Tøfting received a 20-days
suspended jail sentence for assault, while on holiday in Aarhus. He played on for Duisburg without any repercussions from manager
Friedhelm Funkel. In the
1999-00 Bundesliga season, Duisburg were dead last in the tournament, and Tøfting was loaned out to AGF in the last part of the
1999-2000 Superliga season. Here he was picked by Bo Johansson for the Danish
Euro 2000 team. This time he took part in all Denmark's matches, but to no avail, as the team was eliminated in the group stage, having conceded 8 goals in three games. Following the Euro 2000, Tøfting once again moved on.
As his contract with Duisburg ran out in summer 2000, he moved back to former club HSV. With HSV, he took part in the
UEFA Champions League tournament. When HSV manager
Frank Pagelsdorf was fired in September 2001, Tøfting was worried about his status under new manager
Kurt Jara, and he moved to English club
Bolton Wanderers in February 2002.
Bolton
In moving to Bolton, Tøfting looked to secure his place in the Danish national team for the up-coming
2002 FIFA World Cup tournament. In his fourth game for Bolton in March 2002, he suffered an injury which caused a two-month long recovery. He returned to play the last game of the
2001-02 Premier League season in May 2002, and new Denmark coach
Morten Olsen included him in the Danish squad for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Tøfting played in all Denmark's matches at the tournament. His last appearance for the Danish national team would be the 0-3 defeat to
England in the first knock-out round, as he announced his international retirement following the match.
During the 2002 World Cup, Danish weekly
gossip magazine Se & Hør ran a story that Tøfting, when aged 13, had returned home from school to find the bodies of his parents. His mother had been shot by his father, who shortly thereafter turned the gun on himself. The story had been kept secret for years, as Tøfting hadn't yet told his children. Following the incident,
Se & Hør chief editor
Peter Salskov was fired. In celebrations among the Danish players following the 2002 FIFA World Cup, at "Café Ketchup" in
Copenhagen, Tøfting
head-butted the proprietor of the café. He stood trial in October 2002 and was convicted to four months in jail, which he served from April to July 2003.
He returned injured to Bolton following the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He struggled to secure a place in the starting line-up, and after the conviction in October, he got his contract reduced until summer 2003.
Football nomad
He was released early from prison in July 2003, in order to move to
China to play for
Tianjin Taida. When his contract expired in December 2003, he once again returned to AGF in February 2004. In July 2004, Tøfting was once more under charges for violence after he pushed a man in the chest following a traffic dispute, and received two fines of DKK 1,000 each. In December 2004, Tøfting was fired from AGF following a bust-up at an AGF players'
Christmas lunch. He agreed a contract with
Swedish club
BK Häcken in February 2005. At its expiry in January 2006, Tøfting moved back to Denmark to play for
Randers FC in the second tier of
Danish football, the
Danish 1st Division. With Randers, Tøfting won the 2006 Danish Cup, and he helped the club gain promotion to the
2006-07 Danish Superliga championship.
Honours
Literature
Stig Tøfting, "No regrets", People's Press, 2005, ISBN 87-91693-46-2Further Information
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