If you followed international football in the 80s, you will certainly remember Danish Dynamite, the golden generation of Danish football that reached its peak in 1992, when it went from being relegated to European champions in Sweden, which is still the Nordic team's only major title. The Danish Laudrup brothers (Brian and Michael), Ballon d'Or winner (1977) Allan Simonsen, goalscorer Preben Elkjaer, but also... Soren Lerby contributed to this golden period for the Danes. And even today he can boast of having almost had the gift of omnipresence, since, on November 13, 1985, he made history and signed a record in the Guinness Book, becoming the first footballer in history to play two games on the same day: one for his national team, in Dublin (Ireland), and the other for Bayern Munich, the club he represented at the time, in Bochum, for the German Cup. At the time, something absolutely unthinkable today, it was not uncommon for club and national team games to take place on the same day. That was the case. In Dublin, Denmark needed a point against the Irish to seal their first presence in the finals of a World Cup, in 1986, in Mexico, but, hours later, Bayern also needed Soren Lerby's contribution for the duel against Bochum for the Cup! Soren Lerby playing for Bayern «Today, it is unimaginable that club and national team games take place on the same day, but at the time it was like that. I really wanted to help both teams and both didn't want to give up my presence", recalled the former central midfielder about the unusual case. So, Uli Hoeness, director of the Bavarians, didn't even hesitate and started negotiations with the Danish federation so that the selector, Sepp Piontek, would release Lerby, the boss of the Nordic star, and replace him as soon as the result was favorable and the ticket to the World Cup was confirmed. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldtnukyTPys[/embed] As expected, for the story to take on even more dramatic contours, the plan began to go wrong in the 6th minute, when Frank Stapleton gave Ireland the advantage, a team, by tradition, always difficult to beat at home. To the relief of Uli Hoeness (and Lerby), the draw came in the next play, by Elkjaer, a result that remained until half-time. Every minute counted and Hoeness despaired in the stands, desperate to have the player to start the 1,200 kilometer journey between Dublin and Bochum, but the selector wanted to make things a little more difficult. Soren Lerby celebrating a goal for the Germans “Piontek told me at half-time that it was too early to be replaced. Uli just looked at the clock, he knew that every minute was important", said Lerby, who would be replaced by Jens Jorn Beltesen in the 57th minute, after Michael Laudrup (49') and John Sivebaek (56') turned the score to 3-1 and left Denmark safe on the scoreboard. From then on, what followed was worthy of a movie, with a car ready to go. shoot to the airport. «I sprinted to the locker room as fast as I could and I'll probably never take a shower that quickly. I left with wet hair and, outside the stadium, Uli Hoeness already had the car started, ready to take me to the airport. An Irish police motorbike escorted us with sirens on to the airport, where a chartered plane was waiting for us", said the former player, who, in addition to Bayern, also represented Ajax, PSV and Monaco. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJeqpQbq6a0[/embed] If the game in Dublin - an hour less than in the Federal Republic of Germany - started at 3pm, the kick-off in Bochum was scheduled for 8pm local time, with the plane carrying Lerby hitting the runway at Dusseldorf airport at 7pm. From there to the Bochum stadium it was still a journey of almost 40 kilometers by car and Bayern spared no effort to get the Dane on the field as quickly as possible. Waiting for him was a Porsche, which would speed towards the Cup game. «The journey seemed endless and, when we were just arriving, we were blocked by traffic around the stadium. We couldn’t move forward or backward,” said Lerby. He decided to get out of the car and ran the last two kilometers to still be in time for kick-off. Which failed...barely. «I really wanted to play from the start, but I arrived when the team was already in the tunnel and Udo Lattek [treinador] He came to me, telling me that he wouldn't start because he was late and was coming in at half-time. At that moment, all the adrenaline I had in my body was gone after all that rush», he lamented. Soren Lerby was part of Denmark's golden generation Lerby was on the bench in the first half and came on, as promised, to replace Roland Wohlfarth at half-time. With the draw at 1 goal, even after extra time, the round of 16 tie had to be decided in a second game, in Munich, on December 18th. The result? 2-0 for Bayern, with the second goal at the Munich Olympics being scored by Lerby. Then history was already written: the midfielder helped Denmark qualify for the first World Cup in history and also helped Bayern win the German Cup that season... on the same day. And you're wrong if you think it was a unique case. Years later, on November 11, 1987, Mark Hughes played in Prague, for the Wales national team, against Czechoslovakia and soon afterwards flew to the Federal Republic of Germany to face Borussia Monchengladbach in the Cup... for Bayern. It must have been a tradition in Munich at the time...