Getafe appoint Laudrup

Primera Liga side Getafe have appointed former Denmark international Michael Laudrup as their coach in place of Bernd Schuster who was named as the new boss of Real Madrid yesterday. Getafe said the 43-year-old Laudrup had agreed a two-year contract...

Primera Liga side Getafe have appointed former Denmark international Michael Laudrup as their coach in place of Bernd Schuster who was named as the new boss of Real Madrid yesterday.

Getafe said the 43-year-old Laudrup had agreed a two-year contract with the club who will be playing in the UEFA Cup next season.

Laudrup, who played for Juventus, Barcelona and Real Madrid, worked as assistant to Denmark coach Morten Olsen between 2000 and 2002 before taking up his first managerial post at former club Brondby.

He won two cups and one league title with Brondby, including the double in 2005, before resigning in 2006.

As a player he won four consecutive league titles and the European Cup in the early 1990s as a member of Johan Cruyff's Barcelona, going on to join Real Madrid where he won a fifth Spanish title in 1995.

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