This is an overview of the highlights of the season 1997-1998 which Michael laudrup spent with AJAX.

11/8/1997 Elche (Esp)-AJAX 0-5, 1 goal from Michael in this friendly
22/8/1997 Fortuna - AJAX 0-5, 2 assists of Michael on 2 goals of Arveladze
31/8/1997 (the day of the tragic death of Lady Di) FC Utrecht - AJAX 1-7, first official goal of Laudrup in AJAX-shirt

It is a bit vague , but he is scoring with his left foot. (picture from Rete)

10/9/1997 Denmark-Croatia 3-1, both Michael and Brian scored in this important World-Cup match.

21/9/97 NEC - AJAX 1-4, one goal and one assist on Jari Litmanen

Scoring 1-4 against NEC. (picture from Rete)

24/9/97 AJAX - MVV 7-0, two goals against the weakest opponent so far.
5/10/97 Willem II- AJAX 0-1, only goal scored by...... Laudrup

The winning goal (picture from Rete)

Michael misses several matches due to achillesproblems

19/11/97 Michael comes in as a substitute in de Cup-match against MVV (6-0)

25/11/97 AJAX - VfL Bochum 4-2, 2 goals and 1 assist of the master.

The 1-2, soon to be followed by the 2-2 (picture from Rete and De Telegraaf)

3/12/97 MVV - AJAX 0-3, 1 header from "Miki"

Nice header and 0-1 (picture from De Telegraaf)

8/2/98 RKC- AJAX 1-5, a beautiful hattrick from Michael

A little celebration with Blind and Arveladze (picture from De Telegraaf)

14/3/98 AJAX - Volendam 6-1, one goal and one assist.

Easy goal but easy goals count too

5/4/98 Feyenoord - AJAX 0-1, in a bad and hard game Michael received a and that does not happen very often.

11/4/98 AJAX - Heerenveen 7-2. One goal and AJAX is CHAMPION of the Dutch competion for the 27th time. Congratulations!

Michael and the Championstrophy

9/5/1998 Michael tells his decision to stop playing soccer to the world

17/5/98 Michaels last trick for AJAX. The Cup-final against PSV. He gives one more brilliant "no-lookpass" on Litmanen's first goal and AJAX wins the Dutch Cup with 5-0!!. Michael gets a standing ovation when he was substituted in his last game for AJAX.

24/6/98 World-Cup France-Denmark 2-1, Michaels scores from the penalty spot

Michael before and after the penalty

28/6/98 World-Cup second round: Denmark-Nigeria 4-1, 2 magnificant assists in his 103th cap

3/7/98 World-Cup Quarter-Final: Denmark-Brasil 2-3, the last match of the Laudrupbrothers in danish team shirt.

More pictures of Michael Laudrup on the World-Cup HERE

Information about all his international games for Denmark HERE

© March, 2000 Peter 'Peer' Verweij

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