Morten Olsen

Morten Olsen was born on August 14, 1949, in Vordingborg, Denmark. He started as a midfielder and became renowned as a libero, the position in which he was the captain of the generation known as Danish Dynamite in the 1980s. He spent almost his entire career in Belgium. He was Belgian champion with RWD Molenbeek in 1974-75 and, at Anderlecht, won national titles and the UEFA Cup in 1982-83. He ended his playing career at 1. FC Köln in 1989. For the Danish national team, he was the first player to reach 100 matches, finishing with 102 games and 4 goals. He was captain at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, when Denmark won the group and fell to Spain in the Round of 16. As a coach, he was Danish champion with Brøndby, won the Dutch double with Ajax in 1997-98 and managed the Danish national team between 2000 and 2015, competing in the 2002 and 2010 World Cups.