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the_khl
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In this day and age where money talks louder than anything else in football, there is still a few ray of lights to be seen, where football and ideology can still overcome all odds.
The Danish Superliga came to end last night with one of the most unlikely winners. FC Nordsjællland (yeah I don't expect anyone to pronounce that properly).
Not only quite a young team in terms of history but also one that is build on hard work, love to the game and a very special breed of managers and players.
FC København are the Danish giants and their merits of late has spoken some volume, so much that the winners of this years Superliga would go directly into the group phase in the Champions League. This for the first time ever for a Danish club.
The Lions from Copenhagen was in the lead for like 31 out of 33 rounds of football but in the end Northern neighbours and small town club FCN stole their thunder. And the expected minimum of £12M in revenue from ChL too.
FCN's manager Kasper Hjulmand is in charge in his first year and apart from being an extremely likeable lad he's quite the tactician too. He's assembled in short time loads of talented youngsters and a few experienced, hardworking captains and teamplayers. They've played some of the most beautiful football we've seen in Denmark over the past years in terms of pass and move and I'm absolutely delighted for them. When in attack it's not rare to count up to 8 of their players in and around the opponents penalty-area.
Andreas Laudrup scored their second last night, and his father Michael, was sat in the stand looking well proud. He's not going to be anywhere near as good as Michael I'm afraid but he's a footballer alright. Out of their talented lot one player really looks like he could become a top player. 19-year-old-build-like-Micah-Richards central defender Jores Okore. Very strong and very talented on the ball too. Watch out for that name.
Anyways will be most interesting to see how they fare in the ChL., a town with a pop. of around 18,000 and a stadium holding 10,000.
I guess what I meant to say with all this, even without big salaries and big transfers (relatively speaking) it is still possible to build a team capable of making history. And do so in stylish fashion.
The Danish Superliga came to end last night with one of the most unlikely winners. FC Nordsjællland (yeah I don't expect anyone to pronounce that properly).
Not only quite a young team in terms of history but also one that is build on hard work, love to the game and a very special breed of managers and players.
FC København are the Danish giants and their merits of late has spoken some volume, so much that the winners of this years Superliga would go directly into the group phase in the Champions League. This for the first time ever for a Danish club.
The Lions from Copenhagen was in the lead for like 31 out of 33 rounds of football but in the end Northern neighbours and small town club FCN stole their thunder. And the expected minimum of £12M in revenue from ChL too.
FCN's manager Kasper Hjulmand is in charge in his first year and apart from being an extremely likeable lad he's quite the tactician too. He's assembled in short time loads of talented youngsters and a few experienced, hardworking captains and teamplayers. They've played some of the most beautiful football we've seen in Denmark over the past years in terms of pass and move and I'm absolutely delighted for them. When in attack it's not rare to count up to 8 of their players in and around the opponents penalty-area.
Andreas Laudrup scored their second last night, and his father Michael, was sat in the stand looking well proud. He's not going to be anywhere near as good as Michael I'm afraid but he's a footballer alright. Out of their talented lot one player really looks like he could become a top player. 19-year-old-build-like-Micah-Richards central defender Jores Okore. Very strong and very talented on the ball too. Watch out for that name.
Anyways will be most interesting to see how they fare in the ChL., a town with a pop. of around 18,000 and a stadium holding 10,000.
I guess what I meant to say with all this, even without big salaries and big transfers (relatively speaking) it is still possible to build a team capable of making history. And do so in stylish fashion.
