Nicklas Helenius
Helenius playing for AaB in 2011
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Nicklas Helenius Jensen | ||
| Date of birth | 8 May 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Svenstrup, Denmark | ||
| Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Silkeborg IF (on loan from AaB) | ||
| Number | 11 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Svenstrup-Godthåb IF | |||
| 2005–2010 | AaB | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2010–2013 | AaB | 95 | (34) |
| 2013–2015 | Aston Villa | 3 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | → AaB (loan) | 32 | (8) |
| 2015– | AaB | 13 | (0) |
| 2016 | → SC Paderborn (loan) | 14 | (4) |
| 2016– | → Silkeborg IF (loan) | 17 | (6) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2011 | Denmark U20 | 2 | (1) |
| 2011–2013 | Denmark U21 | 11 | (4) |
| 2012– | Denmark | 2 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 06:06, 17 May 2016 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23:11, 8 July 2015 (UTC) |
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Nicklas Helenius Jensen (born 8 May 1991) is a Danish footballer who plays as a striker for the Danish club Silkeborg IF in the Danish Superliga. He is on loan from AaB .
Helenius will join OB on a 3-year contract on 1 July 2017.
Helenius joined the Aalborg BK youth squad at the age of 13 and received his first contract while in the U19 squad. In the 2009–2010 season, he became the top goalscorer of the Aalborg BK under-19 squad in the Danish under-19 league with 22 goals. This was enough for him to finish second on the overall goal scorer list, only beaten by Brent McGrath who scored 29 goals for Brøndby IF.
After the 2009-10 season, he made his professional football debut for Aalborg BK on 16 May 2010 against HB Køge. Helenius scored his first goal for Aalborg BK in the Danish Superliga on 10 September 2010 against AC Horsens and got his first breakthrough in the AaB lineup after scoring a total of four goals in four consecutive league games and one goal in the Danish Cup in October and November 2010.
Following the 2012–13 season, he was selected as player of the season in the Danish Superliga on the UEFA website.
A popular chant amongst the AaB supporters was "vi elsker vold og kokain – og Nicklas Helenius", directly translated to "we love violence and cocaine – and Nicklas Helenius", as a sarcastic reference to the hooligan culture. The chant was based on the tune Eviva Espana.
On 18 June 2013, Helenius signed for Aston Villa on a three-year deal believed to be in the region of £1.2m. He scored a header on his debut in Villa's first pre-season game of the season, against German team SV Rödinghausen. He followed this up with another headed goal against VfL Bochum on his second appearance for the club. He made his Premier League debut on 24 August 2013 at Villa Park against Liverpool which ended in a 1–0 defeat. Helenius scored his first goal for the club on 4 January 2014 against Sheffield United in an FA Cup third round tie at Villa Park.
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