Marc Brockmann Olsen (born 15 January 1986) is a Danish professional

football (soccer) Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

player and

Backgammon Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back at least 1,600 years. The earliest record of backgammo ...

Grandmaster.

Football

Olsen plays as a

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. He has played professionally for Danish clubs including

Brøndby IF Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening (, usually abbreviated to Brøndby IF (), is a Danish professional Football club (association football), football club based in Brøndbyvester. Brøndby IF denotes the professional football section of Brøndbyernes ...

, and also one season for

South Melbourne FC South Melbourne Football Club is an Australian semi-professional Association football, soccer club based in suburb of Albert Park, Victoria, Albert Park, in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The club currently competes in the National P ...

in Australia. Marc Olsen debuted for Brøndby's first team 5 November 2006 against

FC København Football Club Copenhagen (, ), commonly known as F.C. København, F.C. Copenhagen, Copenhagen, or simply FCK, is a Danish professional football club based in Copenhagen. FCK was founded in 1992 as a superstructure on top of Kjøbenhavns Boldklub ...

. His favourite position is as a

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Backgammon

Olsen is a G2 Grandmaster in Backgammon,Backgammon Masters Awarding Body
/ref> and an author of books on Backgammon strategy. He also presents the YouTube channel "Backgammon Galaxy", teaching strategies from beginner to advanced level. Olsen is also the Founder and current CEO of the mobile and web gaming site, Backgammon Galaxy. It is the platform of choice for online Backgammon Master and Grandmaster level players.

Bibliography

*''Backgammon: From Basics to Badass'' (2015) *''Backgammon: Pure Strategy'' (2017) *''Backgammon - Cube like a boss: Patterns, Intuition & Strategy'' (2019)

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* * * Men's association football midfielders 1986 births Living people Danish men's footballers Hvidovre IF players Brøndby IF players Sønderjyske Fodbold players Danish Superliga players AB Tårnby players Danish backgammon players 21st-century Danish sportsmen {{Denmark-footy-midfielder-stub