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Having made 118 league appearances for the club, Mikkelsen retired from playing football in
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on 16 August 2012 aged 42 years and one day, became the oldest goalkeeper ever to play an international match, the record that has since been surpassed by
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Mikkelsen is a schoolteacher and goalkeeping coach for the Faroe
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in their 2000–01 Champions League qualifying round and four more games in the UEFA Cup that season. He played 136 matches for
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on 18 September, and appeared on the substitutes' bench on a further five occasions.
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for one election period. In his youth, he worked as a postman in Klaksvík.
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