Emil Nielsen takes on a French adventure.
The 21-year-old Skjern-goalie change for the summer the west jutland club out with Nantes.
The French team has purchased the dane free of his contract with Skjern, which would otherwise run until 2021, to redeem a frikøbsklausul.
It writes the Skjern Handball in a press release.
– It is a big boyhood dream, which comes true. I am absolutely game to try me in one of the world’s biggest leagues, says Emil Nielsen, in the press release.
The young goalkeeper came to Skjern before the previous season was in the spring to win the Danish championship.
Emil Nielsen hopes to be able to repeat the feat, before heading to France.
– I can write a 20 pages long style about how much Skjern Handball has meant to me. They believed in me when I was down in the blackest hole of my illness. I will forever be the club’s grateful, he says.
Chairman of the board of Skjern Carsten Thygesen decrying the goal keeper switch, but is at the same time, proud of the sale.
– We have all known that Emil Nielsen was with us on borrowed time. He is one of a kind. An extraordinary målmandstalent with an unlimited potential, and therefore we were prepared, that the situation could arise, he says.
Emil Nielsen already know a bit to Nantes. It was the French team that last season beat Skjern out of the Champions League in the quarter-finals.
at the same time is vestjyderne in this season ended up in the group with Nantes in the Champions League. The first match between the two teams ended with a French victory at 35-27.
