Marc Brockmann Olsen (born 15 January 1986) is a

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professional

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player and

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Grandmaster.

Football

Olsen plays as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

. He has played professionally for Danish clubs including

Brøndby IF Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening (, usually abbreviated to Brøndby IF (), is a professional association football club based in Brøndbyvester, Capital Region of Denmark. The club was founded in 1964 as a merger between two local clubs and was p ...

, and also one season for

South Melbourne FC South Melbourne Football Club is an Australian semi-professional Association football, soccer club based in suburb of Albert Park, Victoria, Albert Park, in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The club currently competes in the National P ...

in Australia. Marc Olsen debuted for Brøndby's first team 5 November 2006 against

FC København Football Club Copenhagen ( da, Football Club København, ), commonly known as FC København, FC Copenhagen, Copenhagen or simply FCK, is a professional Danish football club in Copenhagen, Denmark. FCK was founded in 1992 as a superstructure on ...

. His favourite position is as a

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Backgammon

Olsen is a G2 Grandmaster in Backgammon,Backgammon Masters Awarding Body
/ref> and an author of books on Backgammon strategy. He also presents the YouTube channel "Backgammon Galaxy", teaching strategies from beginner to advanced level. Olsen is also the Founder and current CEO of the mobile and web gaming site
Backgammon Galaxy
It is the platform of choice for online Backgammon Master and Grandmaster level players.

Bibliography

*''Backgammon: From Basics to Badass'' (2015) *''Backgammon: Pure Strategy'' (2017) *''Backgammon - Cube like a boss: Patterns, Intuition & Strategy'' (2019)

References

External links

* * * Men's association football midfielders 1986 births Living people Danish men's footballers Hvidovre IF players Brøndby IF players Sønderjyske Fodbold players Danish Superliga players AB Tårnby players Danish backgammon players {{Denmark-footy-midfielder-stub