How Denmark Won The Euros WITHOUT Actually Qualifying

In their Euro 1992 qualifying campaign, Denmark finished second in their group, one place behind Yugoslavia who qualified for the finals in Sweden ahead of them.
However, the ongoing conflict in the Balkans saw Yugoslavia banned from the tournament, with the minnows of Denmark taking their place. Denmark were priced at 20/1 to win the tournament, but they achieved the unthinkable.
In this short documentary, HITC Sevens takes a look at the Denmark team of the early 1990s, their lack of preparation, and how they managed to win the European Championships in 1992.

[@TruckerJenkins82]

Denmark, Greece, Leicester The trinity of footballing miracles.

[@LuzPanorama16]

And a Schmeichel was involved in two of those

[@TruckerJenkins82]

@@LuzPanorama16Indeed. Brilliant. *Desperately searches for a Schmeichel link to Greece.

[@Rabauke84]

Kaiserslautern 1998 has entered the chat!

[@aidanw9378]

Dont forget Iraq

[@vatsalsingh1555]

Irony is both Greece and Denmark defeated France who were the leading contenders both times enroute to winning the whole thing

[@TerkelDK94]

Well… I was born nine months after the final… So I guess my parents had loads of fun that night.

[@shitpants9602]

Your Mother had fun. Your Dad was at work.

[@NollerDaNielss]

Your dad was maken milk

[@MegaBisca]

non penso guardassero la partita....

[@stuplant6693]

Why are they Danish? Or was your mum seeking bit of sympathy

[@moreblack]

Schmeichel kept Denmark in every game in that tournament.

[@r4h4al]

Possibly the greatest keeper ever.

[@lexkanyima2195]

He was launched

[@deathkampdrone]

At least the semi and the final. The three group games he wasnt so prominent tbh. But yeah, player of the tournament based on the two big games!

[@lexkanyima2195]

@@deathkampdrone but he was finding his moment.

[@seyamrahman1002]

@@r4h4al yep him and Yashin, shame I wasnt born early enough to see them play

[@tobiasnielsen2142]

And we even won it without our star man, Michael Laudrup! Thank you for telling this story.

[@bcbitchkkv]

Yeah, our most succesful team wasn’t even the best on the pitch (unlike 82-86)

[@aarivinayagasothy1507]

One of the best underdog stories in football history. Didn't even qualify for the tournament, but then proceeded to win it without their greatest ever player. Unbelievable

[@filipmilicevic4264]

Youre gonna win it again this year 😉

[@kristophermartins6972]

They had the other brother though and he was really good to lol

[@lexkanyima2195]

@@bcbitchkkv but it's very significant

[@mikibabic8187]

I watched this tournament from Yugoslavia as a 12 year old kid. What was, in a way, surprising, a lot of people here were supporting Denmark, although one might think they would be hated for replacing Yugoslavia that year. Instead I think they were seen as our team in that Euro, and, of course, when they won lots of people were commenting that we are the unofficial champions. Also, I just realized watching the video that my memory fooled me. I remember Andersen's injury but I was convinced that it had happened in the finals against Germany.

[@mikibabic8187]

​@@FS-vz9hw In 1992 there were no Danish soldiers here or any other peacekeepers. What I referred to as Yugoslavia (perhaps erroneously) was the modern day Serbia where I lived and still live. Breakup of Yugoslavia already started to happen at that time, but the wars were happening in Croatia and I believe in Bosnia and Herzegovina (I would have to compare the dates but fighting in Bosnia started in earnest in 1992, and it was finished in Slovenia by that time). Although I don't know when the UN forces were starting to be deployed, since there was no fighting going on here, there were no UN troops. Maybe it was different in some other parts of the country, but here most people I know supported the Danish team. Maybe in part because they were seen as ''our'' team, but also in part because they were total outsiders for many.

[@blackchrysler]

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing

[@JoshuaC923]

Football brings people together, thanks for sharing and hope you are doing well

[@joenewman5985]

Denmark have been punching above their weight for a while now. Even now they’ve got quite a decent team.

[@lillepil7]

we quite honestly are in a lot of fields, both sport wise, and elsewhere. kinda always have been. 5.8m and still a high export of professionals in a lot of fields.

[@Sephcat]

One of the best times of my life. I was 7 years old in 92, and I remember that my entire street, and the entire neighborhood (roughly around 1000 people) were out all night, celebrating, hugging and of course drinking a lot of beer. Even the morning after, people were still having the time of their life - still drinking beer. I remember a lot of beer :P It was women, men and children of all ages just embracing each other in one looooong big happy celebration. Michael Laudrup was arguably the best player in Europe at the time, but as a personality outside the pitch (at least on the national team) he never was worth a lot tbh. He was VERY egocentric and the way he treated Richard Møller Nielsen (the manager at the time) was despicable. All in all - I don't think we would have won with Michael there. Again - one of the best players EVER. Personality - not so much. That's why his younger brother, Brian Laudrup, was and is so much more loved by the common Danish fan. I would urge everyone to watch the movie "The summer of 92" from 2015. It depicts everything that happened very well. Also the almost unforgiveable way the DBU (Official Danish football union) and the media treated Richard Møller Nielsen, before, under and even after his managerial duties for Denmark. Publicly in Danish media saying that Richard was not even better than their grandmother as a coach. The president of the DBU, who resigned after the hiring of Richard, got a new job as the president of the "Spillerforeningen" (Players Union), and he actively tried to sabotage the "10 day training camp". He refused to reschedule home matches, so that instead of 20 players, Richard only had 7 players in 4 of the 10 days of training camp Denmark had prior to the first group match against England. A lot of cheesy shit like that. Another good example, from after the European Cup. Richard was not selected, or even nominated, as the best Danish manager in 1992?? WTF (probably because "SOMEONE" forgot to nominate him). However, guess who was selected the best manager in the world in 92? Exactly, Richard. The "split" that was loosely referred to in this video, was VERY ugly, and continued even long after he won the 92 European Cup.

[@mack2287]

Great story

[@beatlegreg07]

Any team with a Schmeichel in goal you underestimate at your peril!

[@tapedenmark]

Vilforts story is so tragic, but respect you did your research well and did put it in :)

[@lewiscalvert2577]

John jensen didn’t score a goal for three years after the one he got in the final

[@gunnerjames3700]

He never scored a goal for arsenal

[@lewiscalvert2577]

@@gunnerjames3700 he did a equaliser in a 3-1 loss to qpr but it was his only goal... the started selling shirts after the game saying 'I saw john Jensen score' 😂

[@jamesjohn9183]

@@lewiscalvert2577 😂😂😂😂😂 I didnt know that .

[@davidkamper4757]

@@lewiscalvert2577 yeah and QPR also made a t-shirt. “ We were there when John Jensen....... and Impey and Gallen and Allen! Highbury - SAT 31 December 1994 - Arsenal 1 Queens Park Rangers 3”.

[@theprophet9429]

@@gunnerjames3700 Tbf, Arsenal used to by-pass their whole midfield in those days. That's why the likes of Jensen and Hillier managed to play for such a good team. Back then, an Arsenal CM's job was mainly watching the ball fly over your head.

[@elCaxi1971]

3 weeks after the final, my boss told me to go help Lars paint a kitchen at this address.. I went there and as usual, Lars was late for work.. I rang the doorbell and who opens the door ? Richard Møller Nielsen !! Imagine my surprise ! I worked at his house for a week or so. Every lunch break we´d sit on his terrasse and he´d tell us stories about the team, about the matches, the players etc. Richard was considered `weird` by many bcs of his rather strange way of speaking and sometimes seemed arrogant, but the Richard Møller Nielsen I spoke to, was the kindest and quite funny gentleman you´d ever meet ! I hereby wish to honour Richard Møller Nielsen.. Caxi

[@JoshuaC923]

That's a great story

[@MichaelHolmgaard]

Peter Schmeichel. Greatest goalkeeper to ever play the game. He revolutionized the keeper position forever :o

[@mikkelferupandersen5341]

I remember this brilliant headline from a Danish newspaper, after Schmeichel saved Van Bastens penalty kick: "Vanbastic Schmeichel!" 😁

[@chirayuaggarwal342]

I just want to know how a Danish fan watching it live felt. And how did Micheal laudrup feel.

[@naedot.9779]

Bet Laudrup felt pretty drumb😭 I honestly think that if he had a Euro title he would be seen as a top 30 player of all time

[@theotan4410]

Lmao it was his bad for not going. His brother Brian laudrup is probably (not being danish myself) more respected in Denmark than him

[@tristanbirkerod]

Im Danish, and i spoke with my mother about it, she lover in Odense at the time (the biggest city on Fyn the middle Island) she told me it was one Big party, in Odense she could feel the cheer when the final whistle was blown. Nearly everyone went into the City, and it was one Big party, with overflooded Streets, the party continued until the Sun shone again, would die to be. She even told me, it was something from at fairytale. The you go:) enjoy your day.

[@Sephcat]

Hi there. You can check my long post 😉

[@ejnarsorensen2920]

I group of us had gathered to watch it in the Danish church in London. Afterwards we were so excited we all got in our cars and drove around central London, honking our horns and waving Danish flags out of our windows. We only stopped when passing the German embassy to try and get them to come to the window, which was a bit naughty. Afterwards we emptied the priest's wine cellar of champagne.

[@spazma_]

Nothing but respect for our Danish brothers. Greetings from Norway.

[@brpe0309]

og kærlighed til jer

[@bcbitchkkv]

Forhåbenligt er det ved at være jeres tur, til at spille op med de store nationer, især med Håland og Ødegaard :)

[@spazma_]

@@bcbitchkkv ja det lov og håpe 😉👍

[@spazma_]

@@brpe0309 takk

[@lucypeerboom6259]

Stolen from Yugoslavia

[@terryblake5076]

Euro 92 turned me into footie fan. The Danes story was so cool

[@KrispigKarp]

Even as a swede I’ve been waiting for you to cover this story! Great video btw!

[@torstensandvei4973]

I was 14 years old in that hot summer of 1992 and I will, until the day I die, never forget that miracle achieved by our national pride 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰

[@enchyxxx]

As someone from one of the states of former Yugoslavia, I really wish there was no war and it had stayed a unified country. Mostly because of all the pointlessly lost lives, but also for sports reasons. I'm sure a Yugoslav team could even win the World Cup, I mean just Croatia on its own came very close.

[@mvk4343]

If we were still unified, we would have mopped the floor with France three years ago.

[@gigsaaa9984]

@@mvk4343 You wouldn't have won against France...

[@gigsaaa9984]

@Andrew Bennett Pjanic who barely plays for barca? Dzeko who has scored 7 goals in 27 games as an st in farmers league? Jovic who also only has scored 4 goals in 18 goals in farmers league? wow, such a deadly squad..... Your squad wouldn't even have a chance against England, lol.

[@gigsaaa9984]

@Andrew Bennett And you'd literally get destroyed by Belgium, France and Portugal. And that's only by the teams in Europe. Most teams from South America would also destroy Yugoslavia

[@darthvader1268]

@@gigsaaa9984 pressed

[@deanporter846]

I remember watching this match as a 16 year old in the wee hours of the morning in Australia. Great memories and a famous win for the underdog Denmark.

[@cretucristian7935]

One of the most beautiful underdog story in football

[@freddiejohnson6137]

Watching videos like this that even touch on what happened in Yugoslavia in the 90s when people online keep saying least year was the worst year in history because they had to stay home have no clue what a bad year actually is.

[@jon3584]

R.I.P Line.. I was 6 years old like her. I dont remember that much of the games, because i was sick with Meningitis at the same time. 92 was sooo great and also cruel for me. I survived though, but i was only some few hours away from death. This year i really hope we can do it again! BELIEVE!

[@GrahamMilkdrop]

As a ManU fan this tournament made me believe that Schmeichel was a literal GOD!

[@smartiee74]

I'm from a small island in the Caribbean (Tobago, birthplace of Dwight Yorke) and I'd only become a football fan in time for Italia 90. The Euros were not on my radar in 1992 but I always remember that the first time I'd ever heard of the tournament was when a guy who lived down the street came to our house to watch the final game because something had happened to his TV set. I remember how excited he was about the Danish team and their fairy tale run in the tournament. I was actually getting ready to leave home to go to the airport but I have vivid memories of him excitedly commenting while the game was going on (I watched the game in spurts since I was otherwise occupied with my trip). He almost lost his mind when the final whistle blew and Denmark had won. The full extent of the success story still hadn't hit me until many years later when I found out about the back story of the 1992 Denmark run in the tournament. And I FINALLY understood why my neighbour was so excited about the team all those years prior!! So Denmark and the 1992 Euros were my introduction to the tournament. I've followed every tournament since then.....and I've become a Dutch fan over the years. But hats off to Denmark albeit belatedly. I do love a good underdog story!!! 🙂🙂

[@williamlee7672]

I feel for the Yugoslavia football players that were not allowed to take part in 1992 euro. It wasn’t their fault and they had a very talented group of players. Also the Laudrup brother were probably ons of the most gifted footballing siblings in the professional game. Many great brothers but in terms of combined skill, ability, teams played for, titles won etc. It’s pretty good

[@mazdakmina9493]

Agreed! This list certainly agrees with you and has them in the top 10! www.sportszion.com/10-most-famous-brothers-in-football-history/

[@brunobruno0897]

god those hummel kits were amazing

[@danpreston564]

Denmark Hummel kits were the best thing about the 1980s.

[@jesperhansen305]

I'm very very impressed, you got all the most important details included. Yhank you so.much for the vide. I really enjoyed it!

[@idkjustchangingmyname7343]

Thanks for making these videos. I’m not sure if they are as popular as some top tens or other videos but I love them.

[@eroche12]

Being Danish it was a fairytale. A small addition, the players were allowed to have their wife's around during the tournament, the coach was very much " hated" by press and Laudrup brothers etc .Living in Holland in 1992 and watching the game in Amsterdam was surreal. All the Dutch were joking about Denmark but after Denmark won I was teased being Danish. When we won the cup I drove alone through Amsterdam playing with the horn. Here I got so many free beers, not because that Denmark won, but that Denmark beat Germany!! I will never forget it. I only saw once the Laudrup brothers play together and that was for Ajax for a short period. Now that was a treat. They were arrogant but fanstadtic players. Thanks for the video

[@MrCr1spy1]

I can already tell this is gonna be good

[@peteraalborg]

Thanks for the video. I'm Danish and I remember this vividly. I can qoute the goal-commentary of the final by heart. I still get emotional hearing it. And I still lift my arms in celebration when I see the clips. "Og DER, Kim Vilfort. Ja ja ja ja ja, Hutlihut!"

[@shanthkumarpatil7904]

One of the best videos/stories on this channel❤️

[@Steve-Riverwood]

John Jensen was asked the following day to describe his thunderbolt of a goal, and with a big smile he said: "I hit the ball right in the ass!"

[@soupersonic]

Pretty legendary win for Denmark. I'm sure there's a mindset/psychological masterclass could be learned from their win. Play like there's nothing to lose xx

[@DOLamba]

There's a whole lot more to the story, both good and bad, and I believe there's actually also a Netflix movie about it called "The Summer of 92", or something similar. :) I don't know if it's only the Danish with Danish or Swedish subtitles, or if there's actually an English version though.

[@soupersonic]

@@DOLamba I’ll check it out, cheers!

[@danpreston564]

I have to take issue with the idea that the 92 side looked like they could become Denmark's strongest team in decades. This was only 6 years after the 1986 World Cup, with a Denmark squad that was one of the most exciting teams in world football. Olsen, Elkjær, Lerby, Arnesen, Simonsen, M Laudrup. At the time the 92 Denmark team was seen as the sad fading away of that golden generation.

[@GorgeDawes]

‘86 was the first World Cup that I watched and Denmark were a special team. They and France were, besides England, very much my favourite sides at the tournament.

[@bcbitchkkv]

Exactly. Crazy that we had arguably our 3 greatest ever players in the same squad around 1982-86. If only Peter Schmeichel had been a few years younger, hehe. Well, and if only Jesper Olsen didn't do "that"... :/

[@peteraalborg]

I agree. Our 1986 team was fsr surperior to the 1992 team. Making it even wilder that we won in 1992.

[@lkrnpk]

Would be great to hear about Latvia qualifying for EURO 2004

[@lemaradona8127]

And Greece winning EURO 2004

[@johndeesnotebook5790]

@@lemaradona8127 Oh you didn't watch 1 milion videos on YT on that subject..

[@lemaradona8127]

@@johndeesnotebook5790 Ngl you're kinda right.

[@LennergyDK]

Thanks for making this video! 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰

[@mrkipling2201]

It might have helped them, joining the tournament like that. There was absolutely no pressure on them and they had nothing to lose.

[@diegozarate5930]

Great work Alfie, enjoyed the narrative a lot.

[@depekthegreat359]

In this and other worlds,I am the 280th liker of this video and I am extremely so happy that one of my favourite national teams one of the smallest European teams Denmark to fight against all odds to win the 1992 European Championship without qualifying due to the generosity of Yugoslavia and beating my favourite team France was a key moment for them to be winning the tournament a year before I was born,good friends!!!:-D

[@rishabh3150]

This channel is so amazing and unique in delivering its content!.. so much to learn..

[@noahandersen5303]

Thank you for sharing our story!

[@charliefoxtrott1048]

Great Job Alfi! Thank you!

[@XYZUNKNOWN]

Thanks for uploading!

[@arminxvs3372]

Speaking of YUG: Day 133: "Final Yugoslavia First League Teams: Where are they now?" would be interesting with Red Star winning the 90s CL but then falling from grace as a lot of teams in the region. + maybe how a lot of them changed names or logos as socialism felt off (loosing a red star etc.)

[@slhchb2136]

Beautiful work❤❤

[@DaveWraptastic]

Dutch television did a documentary on this 92 Danish team, including an interview with Schmeichel and others. Funniest part was: For John Faxe Jensen to score...it was something that came out of nothing, and that to me is how we won that tournament. Interviewer: he tried to score before. Schmeichel: oh he tried his whole career.

[@nevermindshort3]

Is there a link on youtube to that program?

[@DaveWraptastic]

@@nevermindshort3 I doubt it, it was mostly in Dutch anyway since so many Danes at the time played in Holland and spoke perfect Dutch and still do.

[@cryptokimo7558]

Great video, thanks :) I remember when we won as well, I was in a big park in Copenhagen where many thousands watched on big screens. I had a lot of beer than day and evening and when we scored both goals, I was out in the bushes peeing. After that, we walked to the center of Copenhagen; on the way people, that didn't know each other, hugging and laughing, police cars driving around with the Danish flag on their antenna. It was special. At the center square of Copenhagen around 40.000 people were gathered. The most since the ending of WW2. The morning after, my shoes were torn to shreds because of all the broken beer bottles that were laying around. I'll never forget that special June evening.

[@chikasnotmadjustdisappoint6266]

Brilliant video as always, this will always go down as one the craziest and awesome moments in football. Also, day 107 for best current world XI without Europe's big 5 leagues.

[@Valjean666dk]

I recommend the surprisingly good movie "Summer of 92" For a sports movie that is.

[@BjarnegamingDk]

im danish, first time i heard this story from start to finish. even born in 1992 september.. my mom was at "rådhuspladsen" in copenhagen which is a huge area showing it life with me in her stomage. - played football for 18 years and still do everynow and then

[@BjarnegamingDk]

even a dude waaaaay out in the family in the time of god nows when... made the rules for "handball" ?

[@justhuy7960]

Any story about Vilford's loss after the final ? I feel really sad for him, he won something his country dreamed of but losed someone he loves so much :(

[@emilandersen2195]

She died 6 weeks after the final. He has only rarely talked about it in public. He feels it's a private matter and didn't necessarily trust journalists to not put a spin on the story.

[@betman6774]

@@emilandersen2195 Totally understandable by him.

[@justhuy7960]

@@emilandersen2195 It's right not to make private matter public, just wonder if he could bounce back from this tragedy. I hope his life is better now

[@tayfun8975]

What went wrong for Werder Bremen ? Please make a analysis video about it! Keep up the good work and thank you for the always great content!

[@Gamepainter]

In Denmark we went absolutely ballistic as a nation after the euros in 92. I was 2 years old at the time, which meant that my parents hired a babysitter for the game. Afterwards they ended up paying her through the night, so that they could leave their vacation spot and travel 50 km to party in Copenhagen along with everyone else. For reference Copenhagen had a population of 450k in 92' and there were 250 thousand people celebrating in the streets celebrating the win!

[@Jon14141]

Nice

[@BelthazorDK]

And in spite of all this, Richard Møller Nielsen was not given the honor of manager of the year in Denmark in 1992. He did however win both the World Soccer Manager of the year and European coach of the year award. In 1992 it was simply not given out in Denmark, only the second time since the award was started in 1968 that ever happend. He did win it as a club manager in 1975 at Odense Boldklub though.

[@Phrankster163]

One thing that wasn´t mentioned, that I think played into the Danish players was the "us against the world" idea that also sprung from us (as the only country) voting no to joining the EU (which we did a year later) just a few days before the semi final. As our foreign minister then put it "If you can´t join them, beat them"! As a kid at the time, who turned 14 during the tournament, I mainly remember the wild celebrations that followed and of course, Henrik Andersen´s terrible injury, that I´d still rank as one of the worst I´ve seen in sports. On a different note, I have actually worked for Kim Vilfort, who today owns a gardening business. It was only for a few days, but he was a very pleasant guy to work for.

[@tejjensen9402]

I am Danish and will claim that Denmark has never had so many from other nations on their side as in the final against Germany. The Germans had already before the start of the match arranged a party and celebration of their returned German "heroes". Thank you to all of you in the world who cheered with us Danes that day.

[@NoxiousRob]

You are correct. I watched the final in my local pub in Scotland and the whole place was going crazy after the Danes scored their second goal.

[@tejjensen9402]

@@NoxiousRob Thank you for telling it because it is always fun to hear how people saw the final in 92. All Danes know exactly where and what they did that day and hope lives in us here in 2021. We know that the Danish boys stand shoulder to shoulder.

[@NoxiousRob]

@@tejjensen9402 I think everyone who wasn't German was Danish for a day when that final took place. I picked Italy to win this tournament, but given the situation with Christian, I would love to see the Danes pull off another shock tournament win.

[@the_one_the_only4651]

Do a video on the Seven best footballers who made their senior international debuts prior to their first team club debuts. Like so King Alfie can see 😉

[@BOABModels]

I was today years old when I learnt Denmark also had a Henrik Larsen! 😅 I thought you were talking about the Swede Larsson! I knew this story but it is bloody amazing!

[@cianlogan7184]

is it a diffrent one not the celtic

[@ThePandalars]

Larsen is one of the most common surnames in Denmark.

[@bcbitchkkv]

​@@ThePandalars And Henrik is one of the most common first names.. :D Well, a few generations ago - lots of dads in their 40s and 50s bear that name.

[@BOABModels]

@@cianlogan7184 yeah I know, the one who played for Celtic is Swedish.

[@mortenthorrasmussen8545]

Fascinating. I´d never consider Henkes name close to Henrik Larsen. They are pronounced quite differently, but i suppose you´re right looking at the spelling. I´d also never call him Henrik though ;)

[@feardheas4548]

excellent, love vids like this

[@kristofferjosefsen9319]

What a great vid, we usually dont get much coverage as we are a small nation. So thank you for telling our story

[@Dawhisky7]

Great vid ! 🇩🇰🎉

[@archismanchakraborty7395]

My mom who doesn't watch football matches, yet she knows how good they are.

[@seamusoconnor4776]

A great video! Would you ever consider doing a video on the Austrian Wunderteam of the 30's and the suspicious death of their star player Matthias Sindelar?

[@anthonyjudeaggabao2302]

I love to imagine a situation where one Denmark player is convincing the other to train for the Euros "trust me i think they'll get banned" "oh shut up we've already booked for Marbella"

[@michaelpodho1912]

that explains why we lost to leicester last week.the schmeichel syndrome

[@CookieGal-]

I'm sure you posted this before? Was it taken down? Great as always though

[@Mamurai]

I remember how much this meant to me and still does all these years later.

[@HenryMassimo]

Great video Alfie.

[@catz8449]

John Jensen said in a recent interview after being asked if they were lucky: “There was no luck. We won because we were the best team. We beat the favorites, we beat the reigning European champions, we beat the world champions. We were better than the others and we won because of it.”

[@bladehea]

Thats right im not danish but If you win its because you were able to win with your own talent

[@antonjarltoft4087]

Great video. From Denmark🇩🇰

[@25neptun93]

Day 33:Please make a video about DINAMO BUCHAREST...The story of our club is a hard one...And you telling it can really help us a lot,our club is clinging to survival,and we raised 2 milion euros to try to save the club... Dinamo is one of the biggest clubs in Eastern Europe,it has 18 league titles and 13 domestic cup titles...It reached the Champions League Semi Final in 1984 after beating the holders of the trophy Hamburg...In the Semi Final they played against the great Liverpool side of the 80's...After the 89 revolution the club lost one of their greatest generation after their players where bought off by western clubs,similar to what happened to the clubs in East Germany that you already talked about...Corruption and neglect brought this giant of romanian football to it s knees...At the moment Dinamo is preety much the ONLY true historical side in Romania's top division...This team stood afloat thanks only to it's fans...In the summer some new spanish chiarman came and bought the club,brought players on huge contracts and left without paying them...The players just broke the contracts and the club accumulated even more debt...If the fans did not step in and accumulated 2 milion euros the club would have been dissolved...For anyone watching outside of Eastern Europe it might be hard to understand it s value...If u re English imagine Liverpool being dissolved...This club is OUR Liverpool,and it's stadium OUR cathedral...With all the fears of relegation,players leaving and managers coming in and leaving the club still managed to fight it's way to a Romanian cup Semi Final...Please,make one video about our story too...

[@decem_sagittae]

Yes please

[@mvk4343]

it's almost as if 89 was in reality a counter-revolution rather than a revolution, it's just a strange coincidence all the east euro club teams fucking suck nowadays isn't it?:)))))

[@25neptun93]

@@mvk4343 Yah mate...Everything went fucked after 89...It feels like we are going backwards rather then progressing honestly

[@lemigod4475]

Thanks for another great Historic/Geo-political football video.I remember watching the 1992 final at school and everyone was expecting Germany to win easy,but Denmark scored a stunning upset.The Danes spoiled another Holland vs Germany grudge final and took the trophy away.Peter Schmicheal is a football legend.

[@Mi-1990]

Heads up for a new suggestion video. On light of their relegation today, would love to see what happened to werder Bremen. As a teenager growing up, I saw them won the bundesliga and constantly in the champions League. Now they like many big clubs before them (schalke Hamburg Kaiserslautern and themselves) are in the bundesliga 2 or regional league for that matter.

[@DJMavis]

Oh, christ. I had forgotten about that injury. I watched the game live on telly. And it was awful. The lad was screaming in pain. Great video, but I didn't need to see that again!

[@kimkruse7370]

Sure there was pain, But he did say that scream was more like seeing knee scalp gone and fear for the future soccer live. Yeah i can still hear that scream.

[@TheAlphaDingo]

Amazing triumph, a true underdog success story - there is a Danish movie about this as well called 'Summer of 92', really good watch and worth checking out.

[@parhamfelorzabihi6066]

It’s actually available on Netflix in most countries now 👍🏼🇩🇰⚽️!

[@balham5606]

Good video about Denmark :)

[@Rangerj04]

The coach Richard Møller Nielsen, was initially rejected as the coach since they wanted a foreigner like the man before him, but all the ones they wanted said no and settled for him, and despite that he was constantly hounded by critics, commentators and experts, one of them said that his grandmother could with the same players achive the same results like Richard when he was head of the youth team. When Richard heard this he dismissed it and said 'I can't comment on that I don't know her qualifications'

[@markusnielsen9170]

John "Faxe" Jensen quite famously said in an interview after the final "Den ramte jeg sgu lige i røven" translating to "I hit that right in the ass", refering to his goal in the final. Still to this day nobody really knows what he meant by that. After Vilfort returned to the danish camp following the victory over France he allegedly told the rest of the team: "You guys better play well, I've promised her (his daughter) that we're going to win the tournament. Another fun fact: Richard Møller Nielsen didn't win danish coach of the year in 1992, however he did win both European coach of the year and World's maneger if the year. If anybody are interested there is a 2015 documentary called Sommeren 92'. It's available with English subtitles and really well made blending acting with actual footage from the games

[@ejnarsorensen2920]

I literally set this a a question in a quiz this past week.

[@valdemargundestrup7498]

Fun fact: As a Brøndby fan, I am now proud to say, that Brøndby just won the Danish Super Liga, for the first time in 16 years! It's incredible!

[@benhenry6652]

I would love a documentary on Czecoslovakia 1976 aswell

[@FozzQuaker]

And Greece 2004

[@rohithraman6488]

And the origin of the Panenka penalty

[@mortimusmaximus5485]

Born in 1989, I only faintly remember my uncle being all over the place, drunk and jumping about during the final. I have since been told that almost every danish employer suffered from a lack of staff the day after when half the nation called in sick.

[@EmpressTouch]

After watching the Holland 2-2 Denmark semi-final, settled by a 5-4 penalties win for Denmark, I've always wanted to be asked a quiz question: "Which left-back scored the winning penalty?" The answer being Kim Christofte. The BBC sports quiz programme A Question Of Sport once featured a "Did he score or miss?" penalty video segment, featuring van Basten's miss that night in Sweden, 1992. UK viewers may remember a few months ago the game being re-aired on certain freeview TV channels. Those were the days...

[@ethanmarata3616]

Idk if you've done this before but an All players eligible for Yugoslavia XI would be a good video

[@Evangeline31b]

The only 2 national team games I’ve ever attended (the atmosphere in the stadium was fantastic) was the semifinal and final in Euro ‘92 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

[@johndeesnotebook5790]

Crazy part of this story is that Yugoslavia team was already in Stockholm when they heard news about UEFA banning them from tournament. They got on a plain of Yugoslavia JAT Airways but pilot didn't have premision to start flight but he went to the air never the less. They flew accros Europe with no permision to flight, NATO could literaly shot them down.

[@ajmokurve]

the photo on 5:16 holds a great story and perhaps you shoukd make a video of rise of football in the former Yugoslavia states after the war

[@zachharrison1885]

never knew that about michael laudrup, he must have felt like a complete idiot when they won it

[@Kasino80]

He was a bit of a twat. His reason was that he couldn't handle the pressure of being the main man on two teams. I like him, but he must have felt like fool.

[@lulu555dk4]

I was 12 years old back then.. When then match started my family got in our car to drive to France on holiday. We followed the match on the radio, and passed the Danish /German boarder just as Denmark scored the second goal.... The German boarder patrol were not happy ROFL We rode with Danish flags in the windows all the way through Germany, cars honking at us and giving us thumbs up

[@lalitthapa101]

Really makes you think how one incident gives way for many other moments. Plz Do a video on Bican next.

[@vladreyzard]

It's a miracle how they've managed to win that. Just like Portugal's 2016 title...where they won only a single game inside the normal 90 minutes and drew all the others. (Extra-time madness) But that's a topic for another video, hehe.

[@bladehea]

The diference is Portugal is a top tier team since 2000. And reached a final a 3rd place and a Lot of semis at euro and wc

[@BassKassen]

My mind was blown when we didn't make the recent 7 average footballers scoring huge goals. Was 6 years old at the time, it was a wild night and a crazy summer for sure.

[@newforestpixie5297]

I know little about fashion but believe that Denmark also deserve credit for re introducing Baggy or Long Shorts to football after 36 years .

[@Rajbhandari88]

Imagine, had Yugoslavia had won it and that stopped the war! What a story that would be!

[@jeffbiden4398]

Impossible

[@Kasino80]

Football can't stop genocide.

[@adammuhammaf290]

@@Kasino80 well drogba stop a civil war thanks to him being an icon in his country

[@TeamDogFan]

@@Kasino80 War, not genocide.

[@kostajovanovic3711]

@@Kasino80 Ivory coast says hey

[@cynicalahole7131]

The final was in gothenburg, sweden :) Do a video on IFK Gothenburgs uefa cup runs in 82 and 87 Alfie :)

[@Christians9955]

Please do a Greece 04 or Leicester City PL win. Love these.

[@knudplesner]

This was not the only time we won against the EU in 1992. We also voted against the Maastricht Treaty in 1992: "If we can't join them, we'll beat them".

[@adrianduffen600]

I have had a soft spot for Denmark after going their at Easter 1986 (just after Chernobyl) as they had just qualified for the World Cup you literally had to go into shops to see what they sold as the windows were full of Football shirts and scarves etc. In deed I actually bought a Denmark shirt, scarf and hat. Danish Dynamite!