{"id":79916,"date":"2026-05-11T17:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/79916\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:36:14","slug":"south-africans-abroad-gift-links-crowned-champion-in-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/79916\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africans Abroad: Gift Links crowned champion in Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Bafana Bafana winger Gift Links has a league medal in Denmark following Aarhus\u2019 2-0 over Brondby on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The win secured the 2025-26 Danish Superliga title for Aarhus, and this was Links\u2019 first since moving to Denmark.<\/p>\n

SOUTH AFRICAN ABROAD: GIFT LINKS WINS LEAGUE TITLE IN DENMARK<\/p>\n

Links was again instrumental in Aarhus\u2019 2-0 win over Brondby as he provided an assist for his team\u2019s second goal on the day.<\/p>\n

Aarhus finished top the of the log with 50 points from 22 league games after having registered 15 wins and five draws.<\/p>\n

This means Aarhus only lost two games throughout the season, and Links played a huge role in this success.<\/p>\n

The left-footed attacker contributed three goals and five assists in 22 league games that he played this term.<\/p>\n

Overall, the 27-year-old featured 37 times across all competitions for Aarhus, netting five times and providing seven assists.<\/p>\n

WHICH SA PLAYERS WON THE LEAGUE TITLE IN DENMARK?<\/p>\n

Links<\/a> has joined an exclusive list of South African-born players to have won the Danish Superliga.<\/p>\n

The first player to achieve this feat is none other Sibusiso Zuma who did with FC Copenhagen in 2000-01 and 2002-03.<\/p>\n

Zuma was in the same team as Elrio van Heerden for the 2002-03 Danish Superliga title winning season.<\/p>\n

Both Siyabonga Nomvethe and Benedict Vilakazi lifted the trophy during the 2007-08 season with Aalborg BK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Bafana Bafana winger Gift Links has a league medal in Denmark following Aarhus\u2019 2-0 over Brondby on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,26,332,42546,10466,42547],"class_list":{"0":"post-79916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denmark","8":"tag-danmark","9":"tag-denmark","10":"tag-featured","11":"tag-gift-links","12":"tag-important","13":"tag-south-africans-abroad"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116557157939730013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}