Former player will stop his career immediately

The former Danish international Simon Poulsen end of his career.

It informs his club, south Jutland, in a press release, in which team he will play Hans Joergen Haysen deepens the engagement.

- Since we brought Simon Poulsen home after a nice udenlandskarriere, it was already in the mind of the both of us, that we also would like to have him assigned in a role after the active career.

- Simon Poulsen is probably the biggest name that has been in the south Jutland, and with the sporting and human qualities, he holds, it has been important for us to keep him at the club, says the team he will play Hans Joergen Haysen according to the press release.

the 34-year-old Simon Poulsen originally had his contract this summer, but decided to put the boots on the shelf half a year ahead of time. Instead he has been given a two-year trænerkontrakt, where he in addition to the job as an assistant also needs to work with the club's talents.

- I will probably miss the game on the field to start with, but I can feel in my body, that it is not what it has been. Now I have also got things a little at a distance during the holidays, and I feel privileged that I have the opportunity to go directly into trænergerningen, so I continue to get a connection to the game. I can like to work with the young players, and I also feel in general that I have a lot I can contribute with my many years as a professional footballer.

He began his career in the same place, as he joins, but was in the meantime over FC Midtjylland, AZ Alkmaar, Sampdoria and PSV Eindhoven, before he returned back to Edmonton in January 2017.

He was in 2015, recorded in the club's hall of fame, and I am also the now former left-back, he starts his new career in south Jutland.

- Now started and ending my active career in south Jutland, and it means a lot to me, that it is also here that I must start my new career. South jutland is my hjerteklub, and I am pleased to give something back of it, as the club has given me over the years, says Simon Poulsen.

Simon Poulsen reached 31 matches for the Danish national team. He was, among other things, at the WORLD cup in south Africa 2010, where he scored own goal in Denmark's opening game against the Netherlands. He was also at the european championships in 2012 in Poland and Ukraine.

Simon Poulsen in action for denmark's southern Jutland 2. december against FC Nordsjælland. Photo: Claus Fisker, Ritzau/Scanpix

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