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Sepp Piontek, Coach of the Exciting Denmark Team of the Mid-1980s, Has Died at 85

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sepp Piontek, the German coach who led the exciting Denmark team in the 1980s, has died, the Danish soccer federation said on Thursday. He was 85.

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In the 1980s, the ex-bremen pro made Denmark world famous in football. The 1992 European Championship title rests on its foundation.

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Former football coach Sepp Piontek is dead.

·Germany
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Former German footballer and coach Sepp Piontek died today at the age of 85, the German news agency dpa reports. In his rich coaching career, he made his mark on Danish football, leading the country's national team to the World Cup for the first time in history in 1986.

·Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Former German footballer and coach Sepp Piontek died today at the age of 85, the German news agency dpa reports. In his rich coaching career, he made his mark on Danish football, leading the country's national team to the World Cup for the first time in history in 1986.

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As coach of the Danish national team was the former Bundesliga pro Sepp Piontek cult. He is considered the father of the famous "Danish Dynamite" – courageous offensive football. Now Piontek died at the age of 85.

·Dortmund, Germany
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Sepp Piontek is considered the father of the "Danish Dynamite", the coach was once called "the most popular German in Denmark". Now the former national coach died at the age of 85.

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Ekstra Bladet broke the news in Denmark on Thursday, February 19, 2026.
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