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Today's story comes from Brian Loudrup. The mighty Dane reveals the details of a surprising

and rather patronizing phone call from Stephen Efenberg

the night before Denmark and Germany and Efenberg and Laudrop faced off in the final of

Euro92.

Having played, well I played with as you mentioned,

as you mentioned Reuter, Efenberg and Kohler and they were top class footballers

no doubt about that.

I have to say your call is one of the best man markers I've ever seen.

You know he's he his games against the likes of

Front Bastin, you know, the years before that, they were like, you know, games off the

game, you know, it was it was incredible to watch. Back then you played with Manmarkers, not comparing today where you play in a different way, but he was a, he was a specialist in neutralizing, you know, good attacking players and I played against them in training sessions, you know,

oh, that was tough. I mean, Maldini was tough at Milan but Yag that was that was really difficult because she knew all the

tricks to be honest and but again you're stiff and writer one of the quickest

full back to you we were fine and and they had Efenberg, he was beginning to,

you know, create a name of himself as well.

And speaking about Evenburg, you know,

he, you phone me on the night before the game on the of the final and he was like oh

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