Sloth, Casper Bisgaard (Casper)

2014-2016 (Leeds Player Details)(Player Details)

Midfield

Born: Aarhus, Denmark: 26-03-1992

Debut: v Bolton Wanderers (h): 30-08-2014

Height & Weight: 5ft 11 1/2ins 11st 7lb

Born in Aarhus Denmark, he started his football career with junior club Brabrand IF in West Aarhus as a nine year old and three years later he joined Aarhus GF's Academy and progressed through their youth teams. He made his debut for the Danish Under-seventeen side on 27th August 2008, in Bialobzegi, Poland, in the Syrenka Cup in a 3-0 win over Ukraine and played twice more in the next three days before being beaten 0-3 in the final by Hungary in Kozienice on 30th August. He gained twelve Under-seventeen caps before playing his final game for them on 29th March 2009 in a 0-1 defeat by France in Dax in the EUFA qualifiers. He was called into the Aarhus first team squad and he was an unused substitute on 9th August 2009 as Aarhus beat HB Koge at home 2-1. He played his first game for the Danish Under-Eighteen team on 25th August 2009 in a 3-3 draw with the hosts in an international tournament in the Czech Republic at Benatky and play two more games in four days in the same competition. There were two more games watched from the bench with Aarhus as they lost 0-1 at Brondby IF on 13th September and by 2-4 at home to FC Midtjylland on 21st September. He had played his fifth game at for the Danish Under-Eighteen side in a 0-2 defeat by France at Sakskobing before he was again called up to the Aarhus first team and watched from the bench as they drew 0-0 at Aalborg BK on 23rd November 2009 and gained revenge over Brondby by beating them 1-0 at home six days later. He finally received the call in a 1-1 home draw with Esbjerg fB on 7th December when he replaced Dioh Williams in the seventy-sixth minute. After he had taken his Under-Eighteen caps to seven with two appearances in the Copa del Atlantico, in a 2-3 loss to the hosts, Spain, in Maspalomas on 26th January 2010 and a 1-0 win over France in Gran Canaria two days later, he started the next club game after the winter break, in a 0-5 defeat at FC Copenhagen when he was taken off in the fifty-seventh minute and replaced by Martin Jorgensen. He then began to feature more regularly in the first team and by the end of the season had started seven games and come on as a substitute seven times and sat unused on the bench seven times. He also registered his first games for the club on 1st May 2010 in a 4-1 win at Silkeborg IF when he scored the third and fourth goals in the eighty-fourth minute and the fourth minute of time added, both with right foot shots. He had also moved up into the Danish Under-nineteen side, making his debut in a 1-0 home win over Switzerland on 27th May 2010, when he was replaced by Marcel Romer in the sixty-second minute, and then had sat on the bench in a 3-4 loss to Austria on 30th May. He became a regular in the Aarhus first team squad in 2010-11, but could not cement a place in the starting eleven as he started seven, came of the bench twelve times and was an unused substitute twice. He also started once and came off the bench once in Cup. He had also made his caps for Denmark at Under-Nineteen up to three with two home games in two days against Norway, the first in a 0-1 defeat on 10th August 2010 in Horne, and two days later a 2-0 win in Slagelse. Before the start of the 2011-12 season he had moved up to the Danish Under-Twenty level and took part in the Northern Ireland Milk Cup Under-Nineteen tournament where he played three games the first in a 1-1 against the host nation on 25th July 2011 in Coleraine, then he scored twice in a 3-1 win over Israel in Ballymoney two days later and the final game was also against the host nation in a 1-0 win at Ballymena two more days later in the final. He became more firmly established in the Aarhus first team and started twenty, came on as a substitute in six and was an unused substitute five times. He got his third goal in a 5-1 win over Brondby IF on 13th May 2012, with a shot from distance in the second minute of the second half to give his side a 3-0 lead. He also started three games in the Cup. He had been called up for his first appearance for Denmark at Under-Twenty -One level on 10th August 2011 in a 0-1 loss to Poland in Poznan and by 28th May 2011, in the 2-1 win over Ireland in Dublin, he had taken his tally to four. He had been included in the squad for the 3-0 win over Northern Ireland in the UEFA qualifier on 6th September 2011, but had remained unused on the bench, but he was called up in the other UEFA qualifiers on 15th November 2011 in a 1-1 draw with FYR Macedonia in Skopje, the 0-0 draw with Turkey in Istanbul on 29th February. Early in the following season he had taken that tally to eight with caps against Macedonia in Aalborg in a 6-5 home win on 5th June 2012, a 1-1 away draw with the Faroe Isles on 15th August, a home draw with Serbia on 7th September and a 3-0 win over Northern Ireland three days later, both games also being played at Aalborg. His first team place now assured he went on to start twenty-seven games and came off the bench twice and sat unused once and he scored his fourth League goal in a 4-2 win at Odense Boldklub on 28th October 2012 whe he gave Aarhus a 3-1 lead in the sixty-seventh minute with a long range shot. He also started one and came from the bench once in the Cup and started one and was an unused substitute in European Cup qualifiers with FC Dila Gori of Georgia. He was also called up into the Danish national squad for the World Cup Qualifiers but sat unused in a 1-1 draw with Bulgaria on 12th October 2012, a 1-3 loss in Italy four days later before getting a start in a friendly in Turkey and was replaced at half-time by Jakob Poulsen. He then had full games in the 4-0 win in Canada on 26th January 2013 a 1-1 draw in Mexico five days later, before he came off the bench to replace Niki Zimling with ten minutes left in a 0-3 loss away to FYR Macedonia on 6th February 2013. He was also an used substitute in a 3-0 win in over the Czech Republic on 22nd March 2013 in Olomouc. He played his final two games for the Under-Twenty-one side on 31st May 2013 in a 0-0 home draw with Ireland in Fredericia, when he captained the side, and a 1-0 win in Tallin against Estonia on 7th June 2013 which brought his tally to ten. He added further full caps in a 3-2 win in Gdansk over Poland on 14th August 2013 and on 6th September 2013 he was a seventy-second minute replacement for Leon Andreasen as Denmark won 2-1 in Valetta against Malta. Four days later he was again in a 1-0 win in Armenia at Yerevanand, he gained his eighth cap in a 6-0 win over Malta in Copenhagen on 15th October, having been unused on the bench in a 2-2 home draw with Italy at Parken four days earlier. He took his tally to ten when he was a half-time replacement for Niki Zimling in a 2-1 home win in Herning against Norway on 15th November 2013 and a 0-1 loss to England at Wembley on 5th March 2014 when he was replaced by Niki Zimling after sixty-two minutes. In the 2013-14 season, not only was a regular but now showed his scoring ability from midfield and scored five time in the league from twenty-nine starts, two games from the bench and twice being an unused substitute, but failed to score in two starts and one game unused on the bench in the Cup. The season also saw Aarhus relegated from the Danish top flight. He had made four starts in the lower league when he was transferred to Leeds United. He had made ninety-four starts and twenty-nine games from the bench and been an unused substitute seventeen times in the League, with seven starts, two games from the bench and being unused once in the Cup and one start and one game as an unused substitute in Europe. He signed for Leeds United on 25th August 2014 for a fee of £600,000 on a three year contract, to become United's twelfth signing of the summer. He made his debut in a 1-0 home win over Bolton Wanderers on 30th August and by the beginning of October had started five, and been a substitute once and sat unused once on the bench in the seven games he had been with the club. He was one of United's seven changes for the F.A. Cup tie at Sunderland on 4th January 2015 as Neil Redfearn sought to revitalise the team after a poor performance at Derby County. It was his first start in three months, but he did well enough to be retained for the following League game at Bolton Wanderers, but lost his place to Mirco Antenucci the following week for the home game with Birmingham City. After that, although featuring regularly as an unused substitute, his only appearances were as a twenty-ninth minute substitute for the injured Tommaso Bianchi in the 2-0 win at Reading on 10th February 2015 and a start as a replacement for the injured Sam Byram in the 0-2 defeat by Brighton and Hove Albion on 24th February 2015. The 2015-16 season was not very fruitful for the Dane, as new managers came and went, but none seemed to include him in their plans.He managed to make the squad and sit on the benchon just four occasions in the season. The games at home to Cardiff City on 3rd November 2015, at Nottingham Forest on 27th December 2015, at Bolton Wanderers in the F.A. Cup on 30th January 2016 and at home to Reading on 16th April 2016. Maybe he should have been more often as the record for those four games showed won three drawn one and lost none! He also showed up well in the Under-Twenty-One Development team where he scored five goals in twenty starts. On 4th July 2016 Sloth returned to his native Denmark, when he signed for Aalborg BK for an undisclosed fee, on a three year contract. With one year left to run on his contract with them, Leeds had refused to release him unless the Danish Supaliga side paid a fee. In a two year stay the Danish International had featured in just fourteen games in all first team competitions, of which six had been as a substitute.