In the summer of 1998, we witnessed France win the first dazzling Hercules Cup in team history, and also witnessed a Danish star make that classic and eternal celebration - Sleeping Beauty, not only that, he also led Denmark to create the famous "Danish Fairy Tale" in the history of football at the European Cup. However, people's understanding of the Danish star is basically limited to Sleeping Beauty and Danish fairy tales. As everyone knows, his football career has gone around and changed from club to club, but he can always conquer the fans with superb shooting skills and delicate foot skills, he is from Denmark in the europa continent, his name is: "Brian Laudrup".
Born on 22 February 1969, Laudrup's exposure to football as a child was more or less influenced by his father Finn Laudrup, because his father was a famous danish football club Brondby, and his brother (Michel Laudrup) also came out of the Brondby Academy, so when he was a child, he joined the Brondby Academy to receive formal football training.
Laudrup has an extraordinary talent for football, and with the guidance of his brother Michel, he has improved rapidly. But during Laudrup's time at Brondby, he didn't fully cash out his football talent, and in four seasons he had a brilliant performance in 1987, when Laudrup scored 11 goals in 24 appearances to help the team win the league title, but in the next two years he played less than 87 years combined, and scored only two goals, and the Dane seemed to have lost his football talent.
Laudrup understands that in order to regain his football talent and develop his personal football career, he must go abroad to challenge better leagues. In this way, after Laudrup's contract with Brondby ended in 1989, he joined the then Bundesliga side - Urdingen, and began his life as the "prodigal son" of European football...
Laudrup spent only a brief season in Urdingen, after scoring 6 goals in 34 appearances to help the team succeed in relegation, Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich threw a rugby branch to the Danes, and In the 90/91 season Laudrup joined Bayern Munich, the first time in his career to join the giants, but nothing to remember...
In the 90/91 season, this was Laudrup's first season at Bayern, in which he scored nine goals in 33 appearances, and although he performed well, he could only miss the Bundesliga title with Bayern Munich. In the second season (91/92), Laudrup did well in the early stages of the schedule, but unfortunately he suffered a serious injury at the back of the schedule, and when Laudrup returned from injury, he only scored 2 goals, not the heroism of the previous season, when Bayern was only 5 points higher than the relegation zone.
In the summer of 1992, after only two seasons with Bayern, Laudrup made another move, this time to the Apennines to join the art capital of Florence, and before he joined Fiorentina, Laudrup and Denmark created the famous "Danish Fairy Tale" at the Swedish European Championship.
Remember June 1992? It may not be a month to decorate a kitchen, but it's a fairytale month. "I was planning to renovate the kitchen, but I was called back to the national team to compete in Sweden." Denmark boss Nelson later recalled.
In the absence of a midfield commander (Michel Laudrup) that summer, the Danish team was carried by his younger brother Laudrup Jr. with the offensive banner. At that European Championship, the Danish team, under the leadership of Laudrup Jr., defeated 5 teams in England, France, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany respectively, and finally won the only European Championship in the history of the team, realizing the famous "Danish Fairy Tale". Although Laudrup Jr. had a hard time at the club, he shined on the national team. In fact, you can imagine how strong the Danish teams beat in the football world of that era, and you know that this "Danish fairy tale" is not easy to come by.
Laudrup's reputation after winning the European Championship was so great that he received an olive branch from the artistic capital of Florence, when Italian football was at the center of world football, known as the "Mini World Cup". Unfortunately, after Laudrup moved from Bayern to Fiorentina, he did not show his strength in the European Cup, and at the end of the season Fiorentina was relegated, Laudrup moved to AC Milan. However, Laudrup was never able to integrate into the team at AC Milan, but he also followed the team or the Champions League of the year, which were also the only Serie A and Champions Leagues in Laudrup's career.
In 1994, Scottish football club Glasgow Rovers threw an olive branch to the Dane, and Laudrup agreed to the transfer. After arriving in Scotland, he thought it would once again be a place for Laudrup's short stay, but the Dane instead ushered in the real spring of his career, and he found his home in football.
Laudrup has never played for a club for more than two years, but he played for Glasgow Rangers for a full four years. Laudrup conquered the fans at the Ebrox Stadium with his stride-like breakthroughs and open vision, delicate technique. Laudrup achieved unprecedented club success in Scotland, winning three Soviet Premier League titles in four years.
After four years of playing for Glasgow Rangers, Laudrup and his older brother (Michel Laudrup) competed in the '98 World Cup. The Danish team led by Laudrup Jr. shocked European football 6 years ago, and in the summer of France 6 years later, the Danish team led by the Laudrup brothers surprised world football. The Danish fairy tale soared all the way to the top 8, but unfortunately, in the top 8, facing the Brazilian team that was in the sky at the time, the Danish fairy tale was shattered. This is the best result of the Danish team in the World Cup, and it is also the last song of this dark horse that has created a fairy tale.
"Sleeping Beauty" you must have heard of it, although the Danish fairy tale is not inferior to the Samba Legion, but the little Laudrup scored a goal against Brazil, he scored a goal and made the classic Sleeping Beauty celebration action, which has become an eternal picture in the history of world football, and also records the last glory of Danish football.
Two years after the Summer of France, the 30-year-old Laudrup announced his retirement, playing for Chelsea, Copenhagen and Ajax for two years before his retirement, but only briefly for one season each.
Today, Laudrup Jr. has been retired for many years, and his club career has gone around, although not very successful but not too bad. As one of the representatives of Danish football in the 1990s, the "Danish Fairy Tale" story created by The Little Laudrup and the Danish team in 1992 was enough to make him go down in the annals of football history, and his "Sleeping Beauty" celebration action is still talked about by fans today.
Although the past is not mentioned again, even if the memory can not be erased, after all, Brian Laudrup has walked through our youth...
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