Michael Schäfer (born 25 January 1959) is a Danish former

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player and now manager. In his active career as a

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, he played 482 games for Danish club

Lyngby BK Lyngby Boldklub () is a professional football club based in Lyngby, Denmark, founded in 1921. It is based at Lyngby Stadion. The club play in the Danish Superliga. From 1994 to 2001 the club was known as Lyngby FC. The club has won the Danish c ...

, as well as three games for the

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. At the moment he is a teacher at Virum Skole in Denmark.

Biography

Born in

Rødovre Rødovre () is a town in eastern Denmark, seat of the Rødovre Municipality, in the Capital Region of Denmark, Region Hovedstaden. The town's population 1 January 2019 was 39,907, and in addition 145 persons had no fixed address, which made up a ...

in eastern

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, Schäfer started playing football with local club

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. He moved on to

, where he played for more than a decade, including the entire decade of the 1980s. He was called up for the Danish national team in July 1980, by national manager

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. In his three years in the national team, Schäfer was a bit-part player and played three national team matches. He was a part of the Lyngby team that won the first major trophy in club history; the 1983 Danish championship. He also won the 1984 and 1985

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trophies with the club. As Lyngby team captain, he captained the team to the 1990 Danish Cup title as well. Having played 482 matches for Lyngby BK, he retired in the fall 1990, 32 years old. He then went on to be a manager. He started as an assistant coach for Lyngby BK in January 1991, but was promoted to head coach in September 1992, following the departure of Swedish coach

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. In 1995, he became the new manager of F.C. Copenhagen, but he was fired after only one season because of poor results. Since then he has been the manager of several clubs in the lower divisions, among them his former club

. He is also a football commentator for Danish

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Honours

* Danish championship: 1983 *

: 1984, 1985 and 1990

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* 1959 births Living people Footballers from Rødovre Men's association football midfielders Danish men's footballers Denmark men's under-21 international footballers Denmark men's international footballers Danish football managers Lyngby Boldklub managers F.C. Copenhagen managers Ølstykke FC managers Boldklubben af 1893 managers Fremad Amager managers Boldklubben Avarta managers 20th-century Danish sportsmen {{Denmark-footy-midfielder-stub