Jesper Olsen

The Melbourne Heart syndicate have named former Manchester United midfielder Jesper Olsen and ex-Australia international Ante Milicic as assistants to head coach John van 't Schip for the club's debut in the 2010/11 A-League season. Olsen...

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...have boosted their inaugural A-League campaign by signing ex-Socceroo Ante Milicic and former Denmark and Manchester United star Jesper Olsen as assistant coaches. The pair will be a crucial part of the new franchise's entry into the...

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...brought him only 27 games for Denmark in a time he was often overlooked behind other great midfielders like Soren Lerby, Jan Molby, Jesper Olsen or Frank Arnesen. Jens Bertelsen, Per Frimann and Klaus Berggreen were usually on the Danish squad...

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...it's good that I don't live there." So they do. To this day, a serious faux pas is described as a "rigtig Jesper Olsen" (a real Jesper Olsen), whether by the general public or even in parliament. It was traumatic stuff, for sure, yet the...

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...eventually went on to score four goals in the game that Denmark lost 1-5. Consequently, the term a rigtig Jesper Olsen (a real Jesper Olsen) entered the Danish lexicon. Through his later years at Manchester, Olsen had a hard time adapting to...

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...such penalty pioneers. "After watching the Henry/Pires penalty shambles at the weekend, I was wondering if the Johan Cruyff/Jesper Olsen incident was the only previous example of the 'two-man penalty'?" Lee wrote. The search ended with a...

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...Panenka's original dink, Francesco Totti's back-heel strike, or would you go for Johan Cruyff's cheeky one-two interchange with Jesper Olsen? Personally, the chap in the above youtube clip gets my vote for an audacious back-flip...

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...FC-Manchester City FC match in 2005? Well, the latest attempt to replicate the famous penalty one-two between Johan Cruyff and Jesper Olsen, for AFC Ajax against Helmond Sport 27 years ago, ended in similar farce. The perpetrator of this...

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...in the 1982-83 season. He was transferred to Ajax Amsterdam two seasons later, July 1984, as successor of left wing attacker Jesper Olsen, who left to Manchester United. At Ajax, he quickly became a crowd favourite, and played nearly all...

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...I decided to do that. I brought in five players and we sold off about eight - Paul McGrath, Norman Whiteside, Gordon Strachan, Jesper Olsen, Peter Davenport, Chris Turner and Graeme Hogg. We gave a free transfer to Kevin Moran, Frank...

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