In 1997, he became the most expensive player sold by a Danish football club, when he signed a £2.5 million transfer deal with English club Blackburn Rovers, where he scored once against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
[2] Pedersen also had short stints with German club Borussia Mönchengladbach and Racing Strasbourg in France.
He moved back to Denmark to play for Odense BK, where he suffered a career-ending injury, and retired in June 2001.
A high point of his career came in 1997, when he scored four goals in a game for Denmark against the United States at the U.S. Cup.
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