Hello from Copenhagen
Dropped by and decided to give you some information on Copenhagen as city and team. Let’s start out with the city.
Copenhagen airport is located roughly 10 km outside of the city centre, and there’s two different trains that can take you to both Copenhagen Central Station and Nørreport Station. Copenhagen is a great city to go drinking in. You’ll find that the beers are priced at about 4 or 5 pounds. Some places you’ll find them cheaper. There are a lot of british pubs around Copenhagn with most of them located in the city centre around the shopping street “Strøget†and the city hall of Copenhagen. However this is also where you’ll find the most expensive beer. There’s also plenty bars on both Vesterbro and Nørrebro.
To save money you can buy beer in the supermarkets. Here the prices will be a lot lower. A case with 30 beers will cost you about 15-20£. There’s a broad culture for beer in Denmark, and you can select between many different brands of beer in the supermarket. And they are all at the same alcohol percentage as the ones you buy in the pub :-)
The Parken stadium is located in the borough of Østerbro. It’s possible to access the stadium via bus, but you’d probably want to take the short walk from the city centre or wherever you decide to stay as the bus is usually packed at match days. It’s only a 10-15 minute walk from Østerport station. My guess is that the game will be sold out, and you won’t get more than the 5 percent of the seats you are entitled to.
The team FC Copenhagen is, by Nordic standards, filled with a lot of quality players. None of them however would be anywhere near the City team. Our profiles are at the moment the following:
01: Jesper Christiansen – Danish national team goalkeeper. Former Glasgow Rangers and Wolfsburg player.
02: Zdenek Pospech – Czech international right back. Quite good offensive and well paced. Isn’t the best in defence though.
10: Jesper Grønkjær – Former Chelsea and Birmingham winger. Injured in most of 2008. Hopefully he’ll return for 2009. Definitely our best player.
11: Cesar Santin – Brazilian newcomer. Bought this summer as a wing but is currently used in the attack. Has very quick feet and can open up any defence. Will be the one your defenders will have to look out for.
24: Libor Sionko – Czech international and former Rangers wing. Did really good during the European championship but failed to regain a place in the first team this fall. If in good shape he’ll cause problems for most defences.
Even though we have our key placers located in the offense, the defensive record is quite good as well. We’ve conceded only 12 goals in 17 matches in the league. We field a 4-4-2 formation with emphasis on quick attacks and possession play.
You can watch some highlights of our two wins against FC Midtjylland here:
1 <a class="postlink" href="http://www.fck.dk/saesonen/kampe/2008/17.08._f.c._koebenhavn_-_fc_midtjylland/highlights/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.fck.dk/saesonen/kampe/2008/1 ... ighlights/</a>
2 <a class="postlink" href="http://www.fck.dk/saesonen/kampe/2008/16.11._fc_midtjylland_-_f.c._koebenhavn/highlights/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.fck.dk/saesonen/kampe/2008/1 ... ighlights/</a>
And some highlights from our win over Aab here:
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.fck.dk/saesonen/kampe/2008/21.09._f.c._koebenhavn_-_aab/highlights/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.fck.dk/saesonen/kampe/2008/2 ... ighlights/</a>
For information about FC Copenhagen have a look at <a class="postlink" href="http://www.fck.dk/english/news/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.fck.dk/english/news/</a> or the official fan forum <a class="postlink" href="http://sidelinien.dk/forums/?langid=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://sidelinien.dk/forums/?langid=1</a>
-John
