desire to focus his last active years on playing for Schalke, though he would be ready to re-enter the Denmark team if it qualified for 2006 FIFA World Cup tournament if his form would allow it, though that never became relevant for either party. Initially in his last year of contract, he prolonged his stay at Schalke by a year, despite only scoring eight goals in 2005. In July 2005, he announced the coming season as his last for Schalke and following seven years in Germany he would move to Denmark in order to work at Danish Superliga club Silkeborg IF. He thereby turned down an offer from Schalke manager Rudi Assauer to become his managerial protégé at Schalke. For his last season at Schalke he was chosen as team captain, even though stiff competition by fellow Dane Søren Larsen and German striker Kevin Kurányi relegated Sand's role to substitute player. He ended his Schalke career at the Bundesliga game with VfB Stuttgart on 13 May 2006, scoring a goal in the 3–2 Schalke victory before being substituted to a standing ovation by the spectators. Management career After retiring, Sand joined Silkeborg IF in several roles before joining the Denmark National Team as a forwards coach. He then joined Schalke 04 in an advisory role before he was confirmed as the Director of Football of Brøndby IF on 31 October 2018, a job which he took over on 1 January 2019. Shortly after becoming the Director of Football at Brøndby IF, he sacked head coach Alexander Zorniger following a string of bad results. On 10 July 2019, Brøndby IF announced, that they had hired Carsten V. Jensen as their new director of football and offered Sand a new position, which he had refused and therefore left the club. Career statistics Club International Scores and results list Denmark's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Sand goal. Honours Brøndby IF Danish Superliga: 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98 Danish Cup: 1997–98 Schalke 04 DFB-Pokal: 2000–01, 2001–02 UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2003 DFL-Ligapokal: 2005 Individual Danish Superliga top scorer: 1997–98 (28 goals) Danish Footballer of the Year: 1998, 2001 Bundesliga top scorer: 2000–01 (22 goals, shared with Sergej Barbarez) References External links Danish national team profile Brøndby IF Statistics 1972 births Living people People from Hadsund Sportspeople from Aalborg Danish men's footballers Association football forwards Denmark international footballers Brøndby IF players FC Schalke 04