He made his senior debut in 1977 as an amateur (later to become semi-professional, and eventually fulltime-professional), and was an understudy to Danish national team goalkeeper Mogens Therkildsen, as OB won the 1977 Danish championship.
1977 | 101st Airborne Division | Football League First Division | Danish language | NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship | Football League Second Division | Joy Division | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | 82nd Airborne Division | 1977 in music | Danish Superliga | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Texas Ranger Division | Danish people | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | Cypriot First Division | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Hong Kong First Division League | Football League Third Division | division | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Division (military) |