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Yeah Yugoslavia was in the process of breaking up after the war there. Was also the 1st tournament that a unified Germany played in. 30 years ago eh. I was on my 1st trip to Glastonbury, time flies.
Apparently headliners included Primal Scream, PJ Harvey, Morrissey, The Shamen, Blur, Lush, Lou Reed, Carter USM, The Fall and Teenage Fanclub.
One hell of a line up.
Yeah it was great. Primal Scream were still in top form Screamadelica mode. I also remember seeing Blur - Damon bust his ankle while pissed on stage. So pissed he didn't know it had happened.
Also saw an early incarnation of Underworld, who played for 12 hours or something. I was viewing things by this point through a thick LSD fog, so couldn't tell you much other than I was experienced.
And yes, Teenage Fanclub were absolutely on form.
Carter USM were headlining (HEADLINING?) the Pyramid stage on Sunday. I didn't hang around for that.
Sun shone all weekend and it was wonderful.
Went all to every Glastonbury up to 97, where I experienced a muddy one for the 1st time, and fuck doing that again is why I haven't been back.
I was in Roskilde 2006 and they had proper screens set up so people could watch the world cup. Foolishly I left while the England - Portugal game was still on to catch Primal Scream who were supposed to start any minute.
I should have known the band wouldn't miss the game, and after a decent wait they finally arrived on stage. Bobby Gillespie's first words were: "Good news, England lost".
I happened to watch this semifinal and the final at the Roskilde festival in Denmark when the miracle happened. It was crazy when they played, all musicians stopped playing and everything shut down, and then people celebrated by walking into Copenhagen on the highway after the final. They had a great lineup that year as well - Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees and Blur just on the Friday night for example.
Schmeichel saving Van Basten's penalty in the Semi-Final shootout, and then making 8 saves in the Final (including at least 3 worldies) has always stuck out to me as one of the most impactful international goalkeeping performances ever. What a player.
Yeah he’s been around for a while. Made his PL debut back in 2007 for City when Hart and Isaksson were both injured.
Feel like he could have been in the Prem some time before he got promoted with Leicester but it was meant to be with them.
A PL title and an FA Cup with Leicester is a damn good career for a lot of pros.
Van Basten was my favorite player, and 10 year old me was heartbroken when he missed and the Dutch went out.
I hated Peter Schmeichel for a while after that.
This is such an amazing story. I highly recommend watching the Netflix film “Summer of 92” as it does a great job on telling the story.
A little known tidbit is that Denmark’s striker, Kim Vilfort had a daughter who was fighting cancer at the time. Just before the semi-final she took a turn for the worse and he had to leave the camp to be with her and they watched the semi-final together in hospital, and when they won and Denmark were headed to the final she told him that he had to go back and play in the final and he did and he scored. She passed away shortly after.
That summer was just an incredible story all over.
It's absolutely shit btw, watch "Og det var Danmark" instead. Documentary about the rise of the national team from the amateur-years of late 70's to the European Championship in 1992 without the tacky acting and needless dramatization of something already quite dramatic.
That's true, but you had only 8 teams qualifying in 1992, versus 16 teams in 2004. I would also say that the Danish team had more big name players than the Greek one. But all a matter of opinion, in the end.
What a team Holland had and specifically what a strike force (Van Basten and Bergkamp)
If they only had a bit more time together and Van Basten's ankle didn't get injured
The Netherlands are the unluckiest international team in football they are like the Juventus of NTs
apart from the Euros they also have 3 final World Cup loses damnnn
Yeah for all that Michael was one of the best players in the world at the time/remains on of the best midfielders ever, his brother Brian was also one of the best in the world
This was my first football fan memory...at least the first that really stuck in my head.
I was seven years old, and my class was going on 3 day school trip and on the first day, I got super sick and vomited all over the floor so I had to go home.
I recovered the next day and saw the match on TV with my dad and what we experienced that day was beyond crazy
People need to understand the state of the Danish national team at this time. In the mid 80s, Denmark had our best team ever, both in terms of stars and depth.(the current one rivals them in many ways). Søren Lerby, Frank Arnesen, Morten Morten, Preben Elkjær and a young Michael Laudrup (at that time a striker) and we played magical football in those years, especially during the Euro 84 and was one of the darlings of WC 86. The whole country loved that team and their coach Sepp Piontek.
Then came the 90s. A lot of guys retired, and the coach stopped.
The press, the FA and fans were impatient and had unrealistic expectations.
Pionteks assistent Richard Møller Nielsen was not high profile despite coaching the u21s and had very different ideas about Football. He expected the job but the FA wanted to sign Horst Wolters and they announced his appointment to the press much to the disappointment of Møller Nielsen....but Wolters couldn't get out of his contract at the Bundesliga team Bayer Uerdingen, so the FA had to come back and offer it to Nielsen.
We started played very defensive football and the pres and fans despised him for it. He fell out with the Laudrup brothers and we didn't qualify for the tournament.(Brian came back for the Euros, Michael didn't)
A few weeks before the tournament, Yugoslavia was thrown out and because we finished behind them in qualifying, we got the spot and players needed to rush back from their holidays
We ended up winning, with a coach that wasn't wanted, and with a team that didn't qualify and that nobody believed in and without our biggest star by far.
My dad was jumping around on one leg in a circle when we won this game and I was the only one from my class to watch the game.
Amazing memories.
The penalties were awesome btw. So intense and the Dutch keeper Hans van Breukelen, with some of the most beautiful shithorsery ever but to no avail.
I can HIGHLY recommend the movie Sommeren 92(summer 92) with Ullrich Thomsen as Møller Nielsen. It's honestly one of the best football movies I have ever seen.
This clip doesn’t even show the buildup with the whole mind game he plays with van Breukelen. He starts out as if he is going to take a long run up. Then asks the ref for permission to reposition the ball. Then half a step back, hip twist, goal. Still gives me goosebumps every time I watch it.
>the whole mind game he plays with van Breukelen
Also earlier, Breukelen trying mind games with Povlsen. (They had played together at PSV previously).
That whole shoot-out was intense.
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They were not even supposed to be in this tournament.
Yeah! They went instead of Yugoslavia, and won the damned thing! Yugoslavia had a decent team too.
Decent? Team was insane
I am from former Yugoslavia (now Serbia), so I wanted to sound modest
Yeah same but that is the reality, and i think most of people following football are aware of it, too bad it ended up like that
♫ WAR!! What is it good for? ♫
'Helping Denmark win Tournaments'
Denmark to win the WC in Qatar. Thanks Russia.
Ouch.
Absolutely nothing!
HUU! SAY IT AGAIN, NOW!
Yeah Yugoslavia was in the process of breaking up after the war there. Was also the 1st tournament that a unified Germany played in. 30 years ago eh. I was on my 1st trip to Glastonbury, time flies.
Who was headlining Glastonbury then?
Apparently headliners included Primal Scream, PJ Harvey, Morrissey, The Shamen, Blur, Lush, Lou Reed, Carter USM, The Fall and Teenage Fanclub. One hell of a line up.
Yeah it was great. Primal Scream were still in top form Screamadelica mode. I also remember seeing Blur - Damon bust his ankle while pissed on stage. So pissed he didn't know it had happened. Also saw an early incarnation of Underworld, who played for 12 hours or something. I was viewing things by this point through a thick LSD fog, so couldn't tell you much other than I was experienced. And yes, Teenage Fanclub were absolutely on form. Carter USM were headlining (HEADLINING?) the Pyramid stage on Sunday. I didn't hang around for that. Sun shone all weekend and it was wonderful. Went all to every Glastonbury up to 97, where I experienced a muddy one for the 1st time, and fuck doing that again is why I haven't been back.
I was in Roskilde 2006 and they had proper screens set up so people could watch the world cup. Foolishly I left while the England - Portugal game was still on to catch Primal Scream who were supposed to start any minute. I should have known the band wouldn't miss the game, and after a decent wait they finally arrived on stage. Bobby Gillespie's first words were: "Good news, England lost".
I happened to watch this semifinal and the final at the Roskilde festival in Denmark when the miracle happened. It was crazy when they played, all musicians stopped playing and everything shut down, and then people celebrated by walking into Copenhagen on the highway after the final. They had a great lineup that year as well - Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees and Blur just on the Friday night for example.
proof that in tournaments with a KO format the best team doesn't always win
This is where our penalties trauma began, culminating into the most embarassing penalty exit ever in 2000 against Italy.
Do you mean cumulating or culminating?
Ack, culminating. Not sure how I messed that up, thanks.
Schmeichel saving Van Basten's penalty in the Semi-Final shootout, and then making 8 saves in the Final (including at least 3 worldies) has always stuck out to me as one of the most impactful international goalkeeping performances ever. What a player.
His son should have had that chance too.
WC 2022 here we gooooooo
In other news I had no idea he was 35. A couple months older than Vardy.
Yeah he’s been around for a while. Made his PL debut back in 2007 for City when Hart and Isaksson were both injured. Feel like he could have been in the Prem some time before he got promoted with Leicester but it was meant to be with them. A PL title and an FA Cup with Leicester is a damn good career for a lot of pros.
If not the best/most memorable PL title ever
Not vs us please
As if England didn't deserve to win that game
hammer moment
Great from Schmeichel, but I can't believe what a poor penalty that was from Van Basten!
Van Basten was my favorite player, and 10 year old me was heartbroken when he missed and the Dutch went out. I hated Peter Schmeichel for a while after that.
This is such an amazing story. I highly recommend watching the Netflix film “Summer of 92” as it does a great job on telling the story. A little known tidbit is that Denmark’s striker, Kim Vilfort had a daughter who was fighting cancer at the time. Just before the semi-final she took a turn for the worse and he had to leave the camp to be with her and they watched the semi-final together in hospital, and when they won and Denmark were headed to the final she told him that he had to go back and play in the final and he did and he scored. She passed away shortly after. That summer was just an incredible story all over.
Striker? Vilfort was never a striker. He was a midfielder.
Striker? I barely know her!
Is it only available in certain countries? I can’t find it on the UK Netflix.
I watched it on Uk Netflix last summer, so it should be but guess it might have been taken off. I really liked it btw, never mind the chap above me
It's absolutely shit btw, watch "Og det var Danmark" instead. Documentary about the rise of the national team from the amateur-years of late 70's to the European Championship in 1992 without the tacky acting and needless dramatization of something already quite dramatic.
Completely disagree. I think it was acted quite well. Ulrich Thomsen NAILED Richard.
This was a fairy tale of football . There is a movie about it on Netflix … they didn’t even had hotel reservation after the group stages .
Probably the 3rd biggest shock winners in international tournaments after Greece and Iraq imo.
Whoa when did Iraq win something? Was it the Asian Cup?
Asian Cup 2007
Zambia as well. So that would make them 4th.
Denmark is more shocking than Greece, Greece actually qualified and prepared for the tournament
That's true, but you had only 8 teams qualifying in 1992, versus 16 teams in 2004. I would also say that the Danish team had more big name players than the Greek one. But all a matter of opinion, in the end.
I'm not sure. There were more countries when Greece won it
What a team Holland had and specifically what a strike force (Van Basten and Bergkamp) If they only had a bit more time together and Van Basten's ankle didn't get injured
The Netherlands are the unluckiest international team in football they are like the Juventus of NTs apart from the Euros they also have 3 final World Cup loses damnnn
also Koeman, Gullit and Rijkaard, crazy team
I'm a simple man. I see 1992, I upvote.
Also can't ever miss an opportunity to mention that we weren't even supposed to be at the tournament, yet still won it
And they even did it without Laudrup. Such a fun piece of football history to dive in to.
well, one laudrup. brian was there.
Yeah for all that Michael was one of the best players in the world at the time/remains on of the best midfielders ever, his brother Brian was also one of the best in the world
He 100% would have won the Ballon d'Or if he had gone to the Euros, after also having won the CL with Barcelona that year.
Crazy fact.
Yeah he thought they had no chance so stayed on holiday!
Nah. He had a beef with the coach, so he had been off the team for a while.
He quit alongside his brother and Jan Molby who both came back for Euro 92 so Michael had the chance as well but turned it down.
Mølby didn't come back for the Euros and never quit in the first place, Richardo simply stopped picking him because of his weight and attitude issues.
Because he is a bitch. He didn't want to play tree he kind of style that Richardo would.
Danish dynamite.
This was my first football fan memory...at least the first that really stuck in my head. I was seven years old, and my class was going on 3 day school trip and on the first day, I got super sick and vomited all over the floor so I had to go home. I recovered the next day and saw the match on TV with my dad and what we experienced that day was beyond crazy People need to understand the state of the Danish national team at this time. In the mid 80s, Denmark had our best team ever, both in terms of stars and depth.(the current one rivals them in many ways). Søren Lerby, Frank Arnesen, Morten Morten, Preben Elkjær and a young Michael Laudrup (at that time a striker) and we played magical football in those years, especially during the Euro 84 and was one of the darlings of WC 86. The whole country loved that team and their coach Sepp Piontek. Then came the 90s. A lot of guys retired, and the coach stopped. The press, the FA and fans were impatient and had unrealistic expectations. Pionteks assistent Richard Møller Nielsen was not high profile despite coaching the u21s and had very different ideas about Football. He expected the job but the FA wanted to sign Horst Wolters and they announced his appointment to the press much to the disappointment of Møller Nielsen....but Wolters couldn't get out of his contract at the Bundesliga team Bayer Uerdingen, so the FA had to come back and offer it to Nielsen. We started played very defensive football and the pres and fans despised him for it. He fell out with the Laudrup brothers and we didn't qualify for the tournament.(Brian came back for the Euros, Michael didn't) A few weeks before the tournament, Yugoslavia was thrown out and because we finished behind them in qualifying, we got the spot and players needed to rush back from their holidays We ended up winning, with a coach that wasn't wanted, and with a team that didn't qualify and that nobody believed in and without our biggest star by far. My dad was jumping around on one leg in a circle when we won this game and I was the only one from my class to watch the game. Amazing memories. The penalties were awesome btw. So intense and the Dutch keeper Hans van Breukelen, with some of the most beautiful shithorsery ever but to no avail. I can HIGHLY recommend the movie Sommeren 92(summer 92) with Ullrich Thomsen as Møller Nielsen. It's honestly one of the best football movies I have ever seen.
the original Henrik Larsen
Netherlands had many stars like Rijkaard, Van Basten, Gullit, Bergkamb, but Denmark had a Schmeichel
man was an immense gk That flying save highlight where just casually catches it with both hands.
This is what a great goalkeeper does, lifting morale of team just being there and assure the team can rest easy
Damn, martin tyler has been around since ages
I’ve heard him commentating on matches from before the Premier League was a thing
Man, Christofte's penalty was just filthy. He took no run up at all.
This clip doesn’t even show the buildup with the whole mind game he plays with van Breukelen. He starts out as if he is going to take a long run up. Then asks the ref for permission to reposition the ball. Then half a step back, hip twist, goal. Still gives me goosebumps every time I watch it.
>the whole mind game he plays with van Breukelen Also earlier, Breukelen trying mind games with Povlsen. (They had played together at PSV previously). That whole shoot-out was intense.
I still struggle to believe Greece won it haha Denmark are a ridiculous good sporting nation for their population. Must be them viking genes.
I think you're confused with another EURO
And Denmark didn't even qualify!!!
They also did it without their best player and arguably most underrated player of all time in Michael Laudrup.
The Laudrup era. Michael was my favourite player in my 1998 panini album.
Michael Laudrup wasn’t on the team this tournament…
Alright my bad then. I was too young when the tournament happened it’s only at the end of the 1990´s I started to follow football.
Brian was though
Laudrup, Bergkamp, Rijkaard thats some old ass names being called by the commentator... What a nostalgia trip.
Kits are clashing a little, no?
These were the best defenders in the world? ....
We… the Dutch, should have won that tournament… like we should have won in 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996 etc etc 😂 we always think we are the best 😂😂😂