Complex sentence: He spent his youth years at Vejle Boldklub, alongside Thomas Gravesen, and he played several seasons as an attacking midfielder for the club, before he moved to Odense Boldklub in 2001 for a short, but extremely successful, stint, playing as a forward.
Split into simpler sentences: He spent his youth years at Vejle Boldklub, alongside Thomas Gravesen, and he played several seasons as an attacking midfielder for the club. At Odense he experienced a short, but extremely successful, stint, playing as a forward.