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Michael Laudrup signs contract to manage Spartak Moscow

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Danish soccer legend Michael Laudrup has signed a one-and-a-half year contract to manage Spartak Moscow, the club announced at a press conference Friday.
MOSCOW, September 12 (RIA Novosti) - Danish soccer legend Michael Laudrup has signed a one-and-a-half year contract to manage Spartak Moscow, the club announced at a press conference Friday.

Laudrup said at the press conference that Spartak was a "great club," and that he shared a "common vision of football" with the side's executive director, Valery Karpin, a former Spartak and Celta Vigo star.

Laudrup, 44, made his name at Barcelona and Real Madrid, where he won five Spanish titles in a row, the first four with the Catalan side. He also scored 37 goals in 104 appearances for the Danish national team, although he missed out on the Danes' shock Euro 92 victory due to a disagreement with the side's trainer.

During his 17-year playing career - including just two seasons in his native Denmark - he also played for Ajax and Juventus. Since hanging up his boots he has been manager of Danish side Brondby and the Spanish club Getafe, quitting the latter in May of this year after losing in the final of the domestic Copa del Rey in 2008, and taking the club to the UEFA Cup quarterfinals last year.

Spartak, the perennial 1990s Russian champions, sacked their previous manager, Stanislav Cherchesov, in August after a series of bad results, including a 5-1 home loss to CSKA Moscow in the domestic league and a 4-1 defeat at the hands of old rivals Dynamo Kiev in the Champions League.

The club is currently third in the Russian Premier League, and due to kick off its UEFA Cup campaign with an away match against Czech side Banik on Thursday. Although Spartak face FC Moskva on Saturday, the UEFA Cup will be Laudrup's first in charge.

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