9 july 2008   Ditte,William,Oliver,Rebecca,Steven(photo)

How i came to Denmark from my native Northeast England is a long story,. However i could not have arrived at a place more closer to my heart , and can best describe Denmark as a BIGGER football land than my own football nation England. Including the berserk fans of Middlesbrough, Sunderland and Newcastle (North east English teams)
       Now i am not talking about the Premier League , with very few home grown British players , but Denmark's homegrown success, their is no comparison,. Denmark's thriving talent base and the energy, facilities and infrastructure are an example to other lands.
England has been playing catch up in the latest years, but still i think you the Danes are in front.
  I am optimistic that my talented children to my Danish wife, will have a much improved chance of making the grade ("If they want to and if they are good enough or lucky enough") in Denmark, than if they where brought up in England. (55 million people to pick 11 men from or 5 million, the chances are already 10 times better before one even considers everything else Denmark has to offer as a great football nation.)
   Danish players are highly prized in the English leagues, for their technical skills.
This website is a cross between my own family's sporting history and success or failure and will give me a database or rather history which i can reflect on when i am old and finished.
Following our story will also be informative about the local Sjaelland football scene which covers about 1/3 of Denmark, with focus very much on football  youth  at grass roots, For this background i will draw on my eight years as a trainer and my years as a player.
    First into this family portrait i would like to introduce my daughter Rebecca Louise Angus 22 years old ( English  from my first marriage). Rebecca is an England International who  scored in her debut game against the USA when England met USA , Norway and Germany in February 2009 on La Manga. England won 3 - 1. Rebecca plays professionally for Kolbotn the top Norwegian woman's team. She scored also the deciding goal in the Norse Kings Cup and was presented to "Kong Harald" at the Bisset stadium last November 2008. Follow Rebecca's team www.kolbotnilkvinnefotball.com
  Since then Beckys team has finished 3rd, twice in the "Top Serie" leauge.
Recently Nov 2009 Rebecca has renewed her improved contract with Kolbotn.

Next is my first son to my danish wife Ditte : William Angus 13 years old. William is Denglish (½ Danish ½ English ) He is also an Akademisk boldklub (AB)  elite player originally under Bjørn Dyrmose,. Under Bjørn they won silver at Viborgs final elite 7 a-side competition, where teams from Denmark's top clubs participated and the best two from Poland.
OB , AGF, Randers, Vejle , Brondby, Esbjerg amongst some of the 16 names.
AB as the only invited Danish side also played in Germanys largest competition with other European teams, (Noticeably no English teams ?)The Karlsrhur Cup-Wacker Insbruck, Koln, Stuttgart, Borutia Munchen , Duisbjerg and many other top clubs. In the Autumn they visited  Locomotive Moscow and other Russian, Finish and Swedish teams in Finland.. We will follow his progress from grassroots club football at Bagsværd with me as his trainer the first five years, and his progression with AB to an exciting future from now into 11a-side football. Follow Williams team www.ab96.dk
  Sadly Bjørn Dyremøse finished at the top winning at the very first attempt the transition from 7-aside to 11a-side winning Division 1 at the end of 2008.
It would take a brave man to step forward and fill Bjørns shoes after his success. Basse came forward and a big round of applause for him, but unfortunatly he could not build on Dennis Bøner and Bjørns earlier enthusiasm and success, In fact things went down hill at an alarming rate. At the eleventh hour when everything was looking grey Kenneth Santa, arriving from Farum Nord Sjælland stepped forward, and a huge sigh of relief was released, he can only be described as a football crazy nut, who showed this instantly by choosing to take the team to Italy on tour instead of going on holiday with his wife.
Enthusiasm is one thing but is it enough? Yes it is , AB 96 have in fact one of the best technical trainers they could have hoped for, and only after some months could i openly say he has my complete support. William and myself stopped dicussing other possibilities and dropped the idea of playing for arch rivals lyngby, even though William got the green light from Lyngbys 1st team after taking trials for them just befor "Santa" arrived.



Last but not least we will follow the progress of Oliver Angus now 9 years old.(Also "Denglish")
  Oliver has also a large talent that i will try to develop to the maximum , We played  5 a-side football with Bagsværd for the first 18 months(again), with me again as Olivers trainer as i was with William the first five years.
 In the last 18 months playing 7a-side we established ourslves as one of the best teams on Sjælland, with a great little team coming from our little club, which surpassed the 5 years of success which i had with his brother Williams year 96 team. However a hard lesson was learnt by me (Olivers far/trainer).
  The hard lesson was that the small clubs can create teams to compete with the big clubs, but maintaing that standard is much more difficult compared to the big clubs,. Natural losses, boys stopping for one reason or another, can not be replaced or trained as quickly as they go to the bigger clubs. We were victims of our own early success with other bigger clubs jealousely looking at our boys. At this point Oliver crossed over to our big brother  club AB in a year group over himself. He has been placed after his trials in AB,s year group 99 2nd team.
 This means he will continue to play in division 1 as AB have two teams in Division 1 in diffrent groups.I am particularly pleased that he will come under training from Dennis Bøner. Under the guidance of Dennis Bøner and hopefully Bjørn Dyremøse from AB at a later point., who will take them  the next step up.This is a winning trainer AB team who have proven themelves in the past with older brother Williams year group 96 AB team. (To me , having the right trainer is more important than being at a specific club)  Follow Olivers team www.bagsvaerd-00.dk for his ealy years and AB 99 2 hold for his present team.In his first game for AB Oliver scored the opening goal in the "Champions League" for kids after only 5 seconds on the clock.
            I will also try to explain the formula that works for me as a trainer my good and bad experiences the mistakes pitfalls and the pleasures and successes. Maybe someone will be motivated to give back something to a fantastic sport like football is, and nurture not only his own talent full children but also all the others children that help make a team , a troop that can compete with the best. In amongst them somewhere is a laudrup waiting to be discovered and taught.
What if it was you who identified that talent ?, what if that talent was your own son and you give them that helping hand.?
As a father and trainer i have to always remember and remind myself at the end of the day it is their personal choice that is the most important , and i will and must always respect what they want to do and not what i would like to see happen. All i can do is give them the tools to do the job, if they want to do it. Lucky for us all we are just still enjoying our football. It should always be fun with a touch dedication,.
   After 8 years i have accomplished my mission. Both my boys have had a good grounding in basic principles and played at a high level in a smallerclub befor joining the same big brother club AB, and continue to play at the highest possible level.
After 8 years i will be taking some time of over the winter of 2009/10 to catch up on some of those neglected duties around the house, for example to finish my bathroom (3 years).
AB have also offred me a place recently with their AB 99 squad of 50 boys as a trainer and have paid for one of my training certificates,. I am sure my future lies here, but right now i would just like to reflect on eight wonderful years with little brother club Bagsværd.It is the end of an epoch for me and my boys.