Ole Bjur

Born in Rødovre, Bjur started playing football with Vanløse IF in the second-tier Danish 2nd Division. When the structure of Danish football was altered in 1991, Vanløse was placed in the second-tier Danish 1st Division. At Vanløse, Bjur showed himself as a forward with good finishing and eye for the game, and was named 1991 Danish 1st Division Player of the Year. This attracted the attention of defending Danish champions Brøndby IF, and Bjur moved to the top-flight Danish Superliga club in July 1991. Under Brøndby manager Morten Olsen, Bjur saw a lot of playing time, but had a hard time scoring goals. When Brøndby hired new manager Ebbe Skovdahl in 1992, he went on to deploy Bjur in a right wingback position, where Bjur was immediately praised for his performance. From his wingback position, he would both engage in elegant, dribbling runs as well as hit precise crosses. In the opening of the 1993–94 Superliga season, Bjur saw a slump in form. He got his only red card while at Brøndby in September 1993, and was eventually left out of the Brøndby first team and played a number of games in the reserve team. He returned to form in October 1993, and became one of Brøndby's leading men for set pieces. With Skovdahls change of tactics, to a 3–4–3 formation in March 1994, Bjur was moved up to a forward position, behind the lone striker Mark Strudal, where he reproduced the attacking play of his Vanløse days. For the 1994–95 Superliga season, Skovdahl changed the formation to a…

Following his Brøndby breakthrough in the 1992–93 Superliga season, Bjur was touted as a coming man for the Danish national team. However, after his slump in form for Brøndby in fall 1993, he was not chosen for the Danish national team by national manager Richard Møller Nielsen. Bjur was eventually included in the national team squad of newly appointed national manager Bo Johansson in the summer 1996. Bjur was called up for Johansson's first game in August 1996. He scored the winning goal in their debut match, as Denmark beat Sweden 1–0 in a friendly match. Bjur started the next national team match, but after 22 minutes, he suffered a minor concussion from a swung elbow, and had to be substituted off. Bjur was then displaced by midfielder Peter Nielsen for the next national team games, before playing his last international game in August 1997.

Bjur returned to Brøndby IF in 2010 as a consultant to the coaching staff, working as assistant to manager Henrik Jensen for eight matches. He was appointed the club's sporting director the following year and held the post until the summer of 2013. He then filled a similar role at Fremad Amager from 2013 to 2015. He later joined the Divisionsforeningen, the association of Danish professional clubs, as its sporting director. In its obituary the organisation described him as the central figure in establishing the modern era of Danish talent development, which it called one of the greatest successes in the country's football and the backbone of most of its clubs.

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Score and result list Denmark's goal tally first, score column indicates score after Bjur goal.