Nicolai Laudrup is a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 professional footballer

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

, who currently plays for the Danish 1st Division

Danish 1st Division

The 1st Division has been the name of the second highest football league in Denmark since 1991. From 1945 to 1991 the 1st Division was the name of the highest level of football in Denmark...

 side Lyngby BK.

Career

Laudrup focused on playing golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 in his youth, before moving to the United States

United States

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 to play football (soccer) alongside his studies at North Carolina Wesleyan College

North Carolina Wesleyan College

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. He started his senior career when he returned to Denmark, and signed a semi-professional contract with Danish 2nd Division

Danish 2nd Division

The 2nd Division is the third tier Danish football league, just after the 1st Division.It was founded in 1945, after World War II, as the second-best Danish football division. When the Danish Superliga was founded in 1991, the 2nd Division became the third level league...

 team Ølstykke FC

Ølstykke FC

Ølstykke FC is a Danish football club, from the small town of Ølstykke on Sjælland.The Club was founded on 18 May 1918 as Ølstykke Idrætsforening, the club was also playing Basketball....

 in January 2009. When his contract expired after six months, Nicolai moved back to his childhood club FC Øresund in August 2009, playing as an amateur in the Zealand Series

Football in Denmark

Association football is the national sport of Denmark, with 342,955 players and 1,647 clubs registered under the Danish FA.- League system :The top 4 levels in Denmark are governed by the Danish Football Association...

. In early 2010, he moved to Danish 1st Division

Danish 1st Division

The 1st Division has been the name of the second highest football league in Denmark since 1991. From 1945 to 1991 the 1st Division was the name of the highest level of football in Denmark...

 club Lyngby Boldklub

Lyngby Boldklub

Lyngby Boldklub is a professional Danish football club founded in 1921. It is based at Lyngby Stadion in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. From 1994 to 2001 the club was known as Lyngby FC.-History:...

. On 20 June 2010 signed with Fremad Amager.

Golf career

Laudrup has spent months fine-tuning his game with Glasgow coach Adam Hunter

Adam Hunter (golfer)

Adam Hunter was a Scottish professional golfer. His achievements included winning the 1995 Portuguese Open. He later became a renowned coach for such golfers as Paul Lawrie.-Career:...

, who helped Paul Lawrie to his Open Championship win at Carnoustie

Carnoustie

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 in 1999.

Private life

He is the son of the former Danish international

Denmark national football team

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 forward, Brian Laudrup

Brian Laudrup

Brian Laudrup is a Danish former football player and current football commentator, pundit and analyst on TV3+. Along with former international goalkeeper Lars Høgh, Laudrup manages a football academy for marginalized youth...

, and Mette Laudrup, nephew to the former FC Barcelona

FC Barcelona

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 and Real Madrid

Real Madrid

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 player Michael Laudrup

Michael Laudrup

Michael Laudrup is a retired Danish footballer, who works as a manager and last coached La Liga side RCD Mallorca. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of football. His most prominent run of football came with Spanish club Barcelona, with whom he won four straight La...

, grandson to Danish international Finn Laudrup

Finn Laudrup

Finn Laudrup-Jensen is a Danish former association football player, who represented a number of Danish clubs and played professionally with Wiener Sport-Club in Austria. He played 19 matches and scored six goals for the Denmark national football team...

 and his cousins are professional footballers Mads

Mads Laudrup

Mads Thunø Laudrup is a Danish professional footballer, who plays as a winger or central midfielder for HB Køge. He has scored two goals and played 28 games for various Danish youth national teams.-Biography:...

 and Andreas Laudrup

Andreas Laudrup

Andreas Retz Laudrup is a Danish football player, currently playing for FC Nordsjælland. He is the younger son of former Danish international Michael Laudrup.-Club career:...

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