Nicklas Bendtner is still a football professional. At 31 , he is the Copenhagen striker , Denmark's most successful team (13 Leagues), currently second in the championship and in the middle of the Europa League group stage. Bendtner, however, has turned his country upside down with the publication, this Tuesday, of "Begge sider" (Both sides), his autobiography . It lists, in great detail, the darkest episodes of his career: drunkenness , an attempt of sexual abuse by a friend, parties with women in concentration hotels with the national team, his crazy stay at Birmimgham ( where his house was a 'Playboy' mansion ) or his discussions with Thierry Henry. It has no waste.

The first thing: parties with women were a "tradition" in the concentrations of Denmark (in which he played 81 games and scored 30 goals between 2006 and 2018, disputed World Cup 2010 and Euro 2012). " The rooms were at one end of the hotel and we had some girls bring supplies and reserve rooms in the other. When Morten Olsen (coach between 2000 and 2015) went to sleep , we moved stealthily and went. It was a tradition that has existed for a long time, "writes Bendtner.

By the way, both former players and former teammates of Bendtner Peter Møller , now responsible for selections from the Danish Federation (DBU), and Jon Dahl Tomasson , assistant coach, have told local media not to know anything about it.

In the book, written with a Danish journalist, "Lord Bendtner" also reveals that four days before debuting with Denmark, at age 18, he got drunk until he was unconscious at a party and that his friends took him home in a wheelbarrow. "He was so out of me that I screwed up his pants and threw up everywhere, " says Bendtner, who says he doesn't remember anything about his first training the next day, although Olsen didn't know about his bad condition and could debut against Poland with a goal.

Joined by Arsenal at age 16 as a great promise, he has accumulated an extensive history of scandals in his career for his nightlife, including a conviction for drunk driving and another for breaking a taxi driver's jaw. According to the player, his fondness for the party and the night shot up during his stay as a loan in Birmingham (2006), where his house became "a Playboy mansion" in which his partners had sex with other women and visits to strip clubs were very frequent, reports Efe.

The biography also tells how he broke up his relationship with a teenager friend when he tried to masturbate him at a party , his discussions with Thierry Henry in Arsenal and his love of gambling ( he lost 270,000 euros in one night ). It was his problems with the game that led him to accept in the Euro 2012 an offer from a bookmaker to show off his advertising in some underpants for about 230,000 euros, which he showed after scoring a goal to Portugal, which earned him a fine of UEFA. After almost half a year away at Rosenborg , Bendtner signed in September for four months with Copenhagen, in whose quarry he started playing and the team he is a fan of.

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