Sepp Piontek, coach of the exciting Denmark team of the mid-1980s, has died at 85

Sepp Piontek, the German coach who led the exciting Denmark team in the 1980s, has died, the Danish soccer federation said on Thursday. Piontek took a team popularly known as “Danish Dynamite” with star talents Michael Laudrup, Preben Elkjaer and Jesper Olsen to its first World Cup in 1986, two years after reaching the European Championship semifinals.