High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael Laudrup (born 15 June 1964 in Frederiksberg) is a Danish former professional football player. Most recently, he has been linked with the potential coaching vacancy at Spanish side Atlético de Madrid. His most prominent run of football came with Spanish club FC Barcelona, with whom he won four straight La Liga championships. He famously moved to arch rivals Real Madrid in 1994, with whom he won his fifth La Liga title in a row. He scored 37 goals in a total of 104 appearances for the Denmark national football team, which is only topped by Peter Schmeichel's 129 games and Thomas Helveg's 108 games. From November 1994, he captained his country for a total of 28 matches before his retirement in June 1998. In 1999 he was voted the Best Foreign Player in Spanish Football over the previous 25-year period and in April 2000 he was knighted, receiving the Order of the Dannebrog. In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Denmark by the Danish Football Association; their most outstanding player of the past 50 years.