Small football detail. Peter Schmeichel (the Great Dane) only rarely kicked the ball out, when he had in his hands. Usually he threw it very accurately to a danish player. Quite often placed near the middle line of the field!
I was like 7 in 92'...still remember where i was at the night of the final! You wont see a better underdog story than Denmark in 92. We didnt even qualify...Only got to the tourney because of a war! And then went on to win it all...
Great to have Mike back.🙂 I have a limited knowledge about Football, but I _am_ old enough to remember the victory of 1992 (which we are still praising). Everyone (almost) went to the bars after the win, and I still recall the unreal euphoria that night. 🤩
When Germany heard, we had beaten the Nederlands in the semifinal, they went ahead with all the arrangements of the celebration of the upcoming German championship. To the last piece! Someone must have gotten red ears!
After the defeat, they cancelled all celebrations. Our celebration would have been less tremendous, had we lost But we would definitely not have cancelled
I was 13 - Germany was worldchampions at the time and our big neighbors to the south. I remember one of the mocking songs being sung afterwards:"Tyskland er et tegneseriehold" (Germany is a cartoon team). It was indeed a great summer! I still have a collection of newspaper clippings published during the tournament... 😂
My favorite Danish national team is either 1984 or 1986. Still to this day I love watching the old highlights for those teams. A fun fact. The only team to beat Italy in the 1982 WC qualitiers and the WC itself was Denmark 3-1.
Which is a nice way of saying 'made it out of the group stage, and got knocked out first game after'. 😄 Back then, there were so few teams in the Euros.
Danish football was first professionalized in the 1980's, meaning that you could not make a living off it and had to have a day job before. The 1980's national teams were the first generation of professional players and thus normally where we consider the story of the Danish national team to begin. Before then amateurs played for the national team. Curiously matematician Harald Bohr won silver at the 1908 olympics and his more famous brother and Nobel prize winner Niels Bohr played for Akademisk Boldklub.
Just want to make it clear. The rule change about passing back to the goalie, had already been agreed on before the Euro 92 began. So no the final had nothing to do with that rule.🙂
Uh uh uhhh!!! Up until the miraculous Summer of '92, our greatest achievement in football was the silver medals at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome... Sidenote: I had been in Venezuela working, and watched a couple of the group games at a bar. Flying back to Copenhagen on an SAS flight (after the final had been played), we're approaching the airport, when the captain says, "as you may know, Denmark played Germany in the final... I'll see if I can get the score for you that are interested." A moment later he says, "2-0" - but without indicating which team won. Everybody was looking at eachother. Arriving at the terminal we realize just exactly who had won! Holy CRAP! 🤯🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰 On the drive home to South Sjælland, all the Swedes had gratulatory messages in their car windows and Danish flags too. That was a _really_ fine moment that still chokes me up with pride. Thanks for bringing this very memorable clip! Stay safe guys and have a great Summer! 👍🇩🇰🇺🇸🇩🇰🇺🇸
You say, the semis were the farthest we had gotten ever. Not true. Denmark were also in the semis at euro 1984. Lost to spain in penalties. Elkjær missed the final shot with his shorts split open. Very iconic... Up to that point, we had (after a narrow 1-0 defeat against France) demolished none other than... Jugoslavia 6-1 and made a huge comeback against Belgium (from 2-0 down to a 3-2 victory). That was the OG Danish Dynamite team. The 92 team were the heirs that finally took the win with clever tactics and team spirit. "Summer of 92" is a wonderful movie by the way. Has one of the best locker room peptalk scenes ever. And it's actually very similar to "Miracle". "I can't promise, we'll be the best team, but we will be the best conditioned..." Sounds very much like something "Ricardo" (nickname of national coach of Denmark 92) would have said. And also a story of how a coach struggling with a bit of arrogance learns how to put the comradery and winning spirit into his team. It's just beautiful.
It can not be overemphasized how much it meant that it was Germany we beat fair and square. While politics and sport shouldn't mix it happens inevitably. When the underdog played a newly unified Germany, literally every other nation in Europe stood with the underdog and it didn't help that the Germans were extremely arrogant and took victory for granted. Denmark had 600 million cheering fans that summer.
My family and I found out we were Euro champions after the Greek customs agents asked us where all the booze was. "Why would we have any booze?" my dad asked. We'd been going down through Europe and had no idea Denmark was even playing.
A bit disappointed (just a bit) in you Mike. Uncharacteristically, you missed that at the same time we voted NO to the Maastrict treaty😝 (pretty big deal at the time) A very special summer, indeed.
@@henningbosrensen8345 He hated the fact that we voted NO. But was clever enough to put on a brave face. Did we vote no, because of victorious football, or the other way around? I believe that there was quite a bit of synergy
We did without a doubt play some of the worst football under Ricardo and the fact we didnt qualify for the 92's say's it all and to be fair we didnt even play well in the 92'tournament , i hated watching them play at that time, as a lover of "positive" attacking football, Ricardo was the Mourinho or Diego Simione of that time BUT.. you cannot take away from him ,that he and the team won us the biggest trophy in our football history so far
Apart from Laudrup and Schmeichel, most players on the 92 team were not nearly as good as the players on the team during the 80´ies. Many major clubs in Europe were eager to sign them after the tournament, but the majority were embarassing disappointments. Ricardo, however, was a sly son of a bitch - and did what he had to do. How did Greese win the Euros?
@@peterkragelund4794 you are correct, my point is, we played like shit or should i say , we did not play football and so did greece, with Otto , i hate that kind of football, but as i said , you cannot deny he won us a tropy
@@RobeTrotting well denmark won the world championship in 71, and nobody talks about it, england won it in 66. and they had not won one since, and how they go about it, seems so pathetic. its like that sad drunk down at the bodega, talking about how he was a star 50 yrs ago.
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Small football detail.
Peter Schmeichel (the Great Dane) only rarely kicked the ball out, when he had in his hands.
Usually he threw it very accurately to a danish player.
Quite often placed near the middle line of the field!
I was like 7 in 92'...still remember where i was at the night of the final!
You wont see a better underdog story than Denmark in 92. We didnt even qualify...Only got to the tourney because of a war! And then went on to win it all...
Great to have Mike back.🙂
I have a limited knowledge about Football, but I _am_ old enough to remember the victory of 1992 (which we are still praising).
Everyone (almost) went to the bars after the win, and I still recall the unreal euphoria that night. 🤩
In 2092 we'll have a massive celebration 🥳🥳🥳
in history class 🤣
When Germany heard, we had beaten the Nederlands in the semifinal, they went ahead with all the arrangements of the celebration of the upcoming German championship. To the last piece!
Someone must have gotten red ears!
After the defeat, they cancelled all celebrations.
Our celebration would have been less tremendous, had we lost
But we would definitely not have cancelled
I do remember the Euro win, but also the horrible knee injury Henrik Andersen suffered in the semifinal
I was 13 - Germany was worldchampions at the time and our big neighbors to the south. I remember one of the mocking songs being sung afterwards:"Tyskland er et tegneseriehold" (Germany is a cartoon team). It was indeed a great summer! I still have a collection of newspaper clippings published during the tournament... 😂
My favorite Danish national team is either 1984 or 1986. Still to this day I love watching the old highlights for those teams.
A fun fact. The only team to beat Italy in the 1982 WC qualitiers and the WC itself was Denmark 3-1.
They made to the semifinals in 1984.
Which is a nice way of saying 'made it out of the group stage, and got knocked out first game after'. 😄 Back then, there were so few teams in the Euros.
It was quite narrow... one shot missed. 84 was a triump in every way but the end result.
Danish football was first professionalized in the 1980's, meaning that you could not make a living off it and had to have a day job before.
The 1980's national teams were the first generation of professional players and thus normally where we consider the story of the Danish national team to begin.
Before then amateurs played for the national team.
Curiously matematician Harald Bohr won silver at the 1908 olympics and his more famous brother and Nobel prize winner Niels Bohr played for Akademisk Boldklub.
You know... Harald Bohr also won the Nobel prize...
Just want to make it clear. The rule change about passing back to the goalie, had already been agreed on before the Euro 92 began. So no the final had nothing to do with that rule.🙂
"1! 2! 3! Schmeichel er en *mur* !"
Uh uh uhhh!!! Up until the miraculous Summer of '92, our greatest achievement in football was the silver medals at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome...
Sidenote: I had been in Venezuela working, and watched a couple of the group games at a bar. Flying back to Copenhagen on an SAS flight (after the final had been played), we're approaching the airport, when the captain says, "as you may know, Denmark played Germany in the final... I'll see if I can get the score for you that are interested." A moment later he says, "2-0" - but without indicating which team won. Everybody was looking at eachother.
Arriving at the terminal we realize just exactly who had won! Holy CRAP! 🤯🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰
On the drive home to South Sjælland, all the Swedes had gratulatory messages in their car windows and Danish flags too. That was a _really_ fine moment that still chokes me up with pride.
Thanks for bringing this very memorable clip! Stay safe guys and have a great Summer! 👍🇩🇰🇺🇸🇩🇰🇺🇸
You say, the semis were the farthest we had gotten ever. Not true. Denmark were also in the semis at euro 1984. Lost to spain in penalties. Elkjær missed the final shot with his shorts split open. Very iconic...
Up to that point, we had (after a narrow 1-0 defeat against France) demolished none other than... Jugoslavia 6-1 and made a huge comeback against Belgium (from 2-0 down to a 3-2 victory).
That was the OG Danish Dynamite team. The 92 team were the heirs that finally took the win with clever tactics and team spirit.
"Summer of 92" is a wonderful movie by the way. Has one of the best locker room peptalk scenes ever. And it's actually very similar to "Miracle".
"I can't promise, we'll be the best team, but we will be the best conditioned..." Sounds very much like something "Ricardo" (nickname of national coach of Denmark 92) would have said. And also a story of how a coach struggling with a bit of arrogance learns how to put the comradery and winning spirit into his team. It's just beautiful.
It can not be overemphasized how much it meant that it was Germany we beat fair and square. While politics and sport shouldn't mix it happens inevitably. When the underdog played a newly unified Germany, literally every other nation in Europe stood with the underdog and it didn't help that the Germans were extremely arrogant and took victory for granted. Denmark had 600 million cheering fans that summer.
The German Football Union had more members that the entire danish population😁
Michael Laudrup was too "good" to play for our national team in 1992 - he declined 🤣🤣🤣 😆
But his more modest little brother got the medal 😊
Mike, we need some clever sports commentators in this country. You've got it in you 🤩
Time for a career change?
That’s been Mike’s dream career since he was a kid! 😊
Did they break up?
I haven't seen them together for a while.
De er stadig gift. Det sagde Derek for nyligt.
What's Danish for "first"? Haha
Første
først/første
My family and I found out we were Euro champions after the Greek customs agents asked us where all the booze was. "Why would we have any booze?" my dad asked. We'd been going down through Europe and had no idea Denmark was even playing.
A bit disappointed (just a bit) in you Mike.
Uncharacteristically, you missed that at the same time we voted NO to the Maastrict treaty😝 (pretty big deal at the time)
A very special summer, indeed.
and after the match our foreign minister said the famous words: if you can't join them (germany in EU) you must beat them
@@henningbosrensen8345 He hated the fact that we voted NO.
But was clever enough to put on a brave face.
Did we vote no, because of victorious football, or the other way around?
I believe that there was quite a bit of synergy
We did without a doubt play some of the worst football under Ricardo and the fact we didnt qualify for the 92's say's it all and to be fair we didnt even play well in the 92'tournament , i hated watching them play at that time, as a lover of "positive" attacking football, Ricardo was the Mourinho or Diego Simione of that time BUT.. you cannot take away from him ,that he and the team won us the biggest trophy in our football history so far
Apart from Laudrup and Schmeichel, most players on the 92 team were not nearly as good as the players on the team during the 80´ies.
Many major clubs in Europe were eager to sign them after the tournament, but the majority were embarassing disappointments.
Ricardo, however, was a sly son of a bitch - and did what he had to do.
How did Greese win the Euros?
@@peterkragelund4794 you are correct, my point is, we played like shit or should i say , we did not play football and so did greece, with Otto , i hate that kind of football, but as i said , you cannot deny he won us a tropy
its been 32 yrs. let it go. we dont care about it. find something more interesting to talk about, like watching painted grass.
Yeah, let it go… 🤔 that’s good advice… who else could use it 🧐
@@RobeTrotting well denmark won the world championship in 71, and nobody talks about it, england won it in 66. and they had not won one since, and how they go about it, seems so pathetic. its like that sad drunk down at the bodega, talking about how he was a star 50 yrs ago.