Football match

It’s since one month that Eh wanted to see Horsens playing football, so we decided to make him happy! We took ticket for the match AC Horsens against FC Nordsjælland, a city near Copenhagen called Farum.

HISTORY OF THE CLUB:

AC Horsens (Alliance Club Horsens) was founded on 1 January 1994 of HFS and FC Horsens in order to assemble the best players on a single elite team (league). Horsens played in the First Division (named Superliga) for the first time in 2005, and was relegated in 2009 to be promoted for the second time to the Superliga last year.

To summarize, AC Horsens has spent nine seasons in the Highest Danish League, 34 seasons in the Second Highest Danish League and 24 seasons in the Third Highest Danish League. They also participated 2 times to the European Cup: the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1968 and 1970.

Also, in AC Horsens, there are 2 stars: Martin Retov and Johan Absalonsen because they already played with the national team of Denmark, so they are famous. Here are their technical sheets:

Retov and Absalonsen

STADIUM:

Furthermore, Horsens is lucky to possess a great stadium. It was built in 1927 and inaugurated on 16th June 1929. The clubhouse was built later, in 1955 and was rebuilt in 1979 and in 1989. So, this stadium can be containing approximately 6,000 spectators in 2001.

CASA Arena Horsens

In January 2007 the first sod was turned to the city's new stadium: CASA Arena Horsens. The eastern grandstand was demolished in February to make room to reverse course and show CASA Arena Horsens now forms an attractive setting for AC Horsens' home matches.

The four masts, which lights up over CASA Arena Horsens is mounted at a height of 37 meters above the ground and each tower weighs 25 tons. The illuminated with 1,000 lux, but is prepared to 1,400 lux.

CASA Arena Horsens

Today, CASA Arena Horsens a spectator capacity of 10,400, of which 7,500 are seated. In the autumn of 2009 was really embarked on building skyboxes and the new lounge. There are 18 skyboxes at the top level of the south grandstand and on the floor just below there is space for about 900 guests in the new exclusive Hansen / Nissen Lounge. Now the stadium is use to receive big concert like AC/DC or U2 in 2010.

MATCH:

So we went to see the match AC Horsens (the 3^rd) against FC Nordsjealland (the 2^nd).

AC Horsens - FC Nordsjaelland

A ticket for see a match depends of your age and the rostrum you want to be seated. There are prices for students, young (under 15 years old) and pensioners (over 65 years old). Ticket cost between 50kr and 70kr (~6.5 – 9.5€) for young and pensioners, and 60kr (~8€) for students, otherwise, they cost between 100kr and 140kr (~13.5 – 19€). It’s very cheap compared to prices in England, Spain or in France where ticket cost 30-55€ and more for the most famous club!

This announced probably a good game, but it was not the case. The level looked like the French second division. In fact, players make a lot of technical errors like bad pass or bad shoots, and the play was very slow and boring! Furthermore, Horsens lost 0-2! But all the same we saw goals!

Fortunately, the weather was shinning, the atmosphere was friendly with a group of motivated supporters, singing the glory of the club with incomprehensible Danish lyrics!

Fans

"What a shame!!!"

This is a sheet summarizing the match:

To conclude, Eh was so disappointed and sad (he cried at the end...) that we don’t think we will return again to see another match! We think Denmark has a good football team, but for Danish, it’s not their favorite sport, we think about Handball for example. So we spend good time together even if the game was boring and Horsens lost.

http://www.wikipedia.com

http://www.achorsens.dk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_in_Denmark

http://www.soccerfame.fr/match/260879/horsens/nordsjaelland