Denmark women aim to obey EURO ’92 heroes
Twenty-five years on from Denmark’s many famous football triumph, their women could be about to repeat history.
Although Denmark had a clever group in a 1980s, their loyal breakthrough came in EURO ’92, where they famously perceived a late entrance to a finals in Sweden and won! Richard Møller Nielsen’s side kick holders a Netherlands on penalties in a semis afterwards saw off Germany to lift a trophy.
There are parallels this time around. Like 1992, Denmark have beaten a holders en track to a final (Denmark’s quarter-final win opposite Germany was an dissapoint equal to any their masculine counterparts achieved). They too won a semi-final shoot-out and, if they do delight on Sunday, a 2017 Danes will have seen off both Germany and a Netherlands.
It has naturally turn a articulate indicate in Denmark, as their players told UEFA.com …
Denmark women of 2017 on group of 1992 …
Katrine Veje:
“It would meant a lot. We never dared suppose this and we have listened so most about a summer of ’92. We get crow bumps when we watch a film about that summer that came out recently. It would be a large thing.â€
Frederikke Thøgersen:
“It’s something we’ve been articulate about in Denmark ever given it happened. It would be extraordinary if we could do something similar. We speak about it a lot and we are hopeful.”
Denmark group of 1992 on women of 2017 …
Henrik Larsen:
“We kick a German universe champions in a finals, a women’s group has degraded champions Germany in a quarter-finals, and we trust Denmark can go all a way,” we wish that they will applaud and celebration as we did, and it will be excellent if they are also invited to a city hall!”
John Sivebæk:
“When I’ve been with my mother and seen a fighting suggestion opposite Norway and Germany, we consider behind in 1992. we can simply see how a players work and quarrel for any other, as we did. And there are many good players on a team. It is singular to see such an superb actor as Katrine Veje. Nadia Nadim is a learned leap rand we was tender by how Theresa Nielsen could run adult and down and join in with much. The captain Pernille Harder is right, unequivocally good. It’s good that she can get around a whole pitch. And to me, Simone Boye was insanely clever opposite a Germans. She binds it all and is good with a ball. “
- Either a Netherlands or Denmark will turn usually a second republic to have won both a men’s and women’s EURO titles after Germany.