Tobias Brogaard leaves AB
The spring season in AB will be without the first goalkeeper from the part of the season when the team really found its rhythm. 28-year-old Tobias Brogaard leaves the club after a period when he made a huge contribution to the team and played a major role in an autumn that only got better and better. Tobias Brogaard’s departure from AB is partly due to consideration for his family. “Tobias came to the club last summer and made a huge difference straight away. From the moment he came in, we didn’t look back,” says head coach Patrick Braune. It has been a difficult decision for Tobias Brogaard to say goodbye to AB, but he has no doubt that it is the right one. “I feel ambivalent. It’s as much my own decision as it is the club’s, but it’s never easy to say goodbye to a place where I’ve been insanely happy to be. However, I’m at a place in my life where football in the 2nd division doesn’t quite fit in with the rest of life. I’m going to be a father in the spring, and we dream of getting a house. So it had to be full-time football or a civilian job. I’m very upset about it, but when I zoom out, I’m clear,” he says. Tobias Brogaard joined the club on August 24. Two days later he was in goal for AB in a crushing 6-0 victory against BK Frem, and since then Brogaard has been a regular fixture in the fall season. In his 12 games for the club, Tobias Brogaard was only involved in one defeat, and the team achieved a points-per-game average of 2.6 with him as first goalkeeper. Brogaard has no doubt that he will remember his time at AB as a period of great success. Both personally and for the team. “I will remember that I came into a very talented group of players. I didn’t come and have a lot of 100 percent saves in every game, because as I said it was a very talented group of players, but I maybe gave some calm to the team as a goalkeeper. We played at a higher tempo than the others and we had a great team spirit. I think we went behind in three or four of the games, but we still won. We did that because we simply had a feeling that we couldn’t lose,” says Brogaard. Patrick Braune has no doubt that Brogaard made a difference for the team. “We raised our scoring average right away when he came on board. Besides being a good goalkeeper, he’s a good guy who integrated quickly and became part of the way we played. He fitted in really well,” says Patrick Braune and continues. “We thank him for his efforts and wish him all the best for the future.”
