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Jakob Glerup

Danish footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ3160667 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jakob Glerup Nielsen (born 20 April 1975) is a Danish football manager and former midfielder. He is currently serving as head coach of B-Liga club Viborg FF.

Club career

Glerup joined Viborg in 1994 from Aalborg Chang, and within months, moved to Viborg's first-team squad. He spent the remainder of his playing career with Viborg from 1994 until his retirement in 2010.

Managerial career

In July 2022, Glerup became the head coach of Viborg FF Women In January 2026, the club announced that Glerup had extended his contract as head coach of the club.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jakob Glerup” as danish footballer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1994, 2010, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-04-20. The account is most persuasive where Jakob, Glerup and Danish can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as danish footballer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3160667. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975, 1994, 2010 and 2022.

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A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jakob Glerup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.