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8 unusual facts about Denmark national football team


1963 in Luxembourg

18 December – Luxembourg is knocked out at the final stage of qualifying for the 1964 European Nations' Cup, losing a play-off against Denmark 1-0, having drawn 5-5 with the Danes on aggregate.

Birthe Kjær

In June 2004, her single with Safri Duo "Hvor' vi fra?" (the Denmark national football team's anthem for the 2004 UEFA European Football Championship) achieved a gold record with 4,900 copies sold.

Bryan Namoff

Along with teammates Bobby Boswell, Brian Carroll, and Joshua Gros, Namoff made his first (and, to date, only) international appearance for the United States men's national soccer team on January 20, 2007, against Denmark.

Jens Jensen

Jens Jensen (footballer) (1890–1957), Danish football (soccer) player who played one game for the Denmark national football team

Kyle Beckerman

Beckerman's first appearance for the Senior National Team came January 20, 2007 in a friendly match against Denmark.

Landsholdet

Landsholdet is the popular name of the Denmark national football team.

Mohammad Fanaei

He was subsequently an assistant referee in two matches during the 1995 King Fahd Cup (pre-cursor competition to the FIFA Confederations Cup), including the Final between Denmark and Argentina.

Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed and Designated Events

In July 2000, a British-based broadcaster, TV Danmark, challenged the ITC's decision to deny it the rights to five Danish World Cup qualifiers.


1987 in Denmark

14 October — Denmark qualifies for UEFA Euro 1988 in West Germany by defeating Wales in their last game in Group 6 of the UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying and thusreby winning the group one point ahead of Czechoslovakia.

2000–01 Nordic Football Championship

Six Nordic countries participated, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

Bjarne Goldbæk

Goldbæk made his debut for Denmark on 18 November 1987, in a 1988 Olympic Games qualifier against the West Germany Olympic national team, which ended in a 1–0 defeat.

Edgar Chadwick

During the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm (where eleven teams participated in the football tournament, against only six in 1908) the Dutch defeated Sweden and Austria, but lost in the semi-final 4–1 to Denmark.

Eduardo Carvalho

After UEFA Euro 2008, Eduardo was called for new national team coach Carlos Queiroz for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Malta and Denmark, where he played understudy to Quim.

Gary Medel

Despite being short, he has great jumping and heading skills, this being shown in 2009, in a friendly against Denmark, when he was marking Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner, 25 cm taller than Medel.

Herbert Fandel

On 2 June 2007, Fandel took charge of the Euro 2008 qualifying game between Denmark and Sweden in Copenhagen, the first ever UEFA qualifier between the two teams.

Kent Nielsen

Following two under-21 games, he made his debut for the senior Danish national team on 5 October 1983 in a 1984 Summer Olympics qualification game against Poland, making him the last Brønshøj player until this date, to represent the club on the national squad.

Leeuwenhosen

Following the Netherlands-Denmark match in Johannesburg, FIFA forcibly removed 36 female fans because they wore the dresses and detained and questioned the three Dutch nationals for three hours (the other 33 were South African).

Martin S. Jensen

Martin S. Jensen began his career with local amateur club Korup near Odense, before moving to nearby top-flight Superliga club Odense BK (OB) in 1996, where he served as an understudy to Danish international keeper Lars Høgh.

Martin Vingaard

Martin Vingaard Hansen (born 20 March 1985 in Odense) is a Danish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Danish Superliga side FC Nordsjælland and the Danish national team.

Michael Hemmingsen

He is the older brother of former Danish national team player Carsten Hemmingsen.

Morten Bisgaard

He was called up to the first Danish national team match of new national manager Bo Johansson, and Bisgaard made his international debut in the August 1996 game against Sweden.

Re-Sepp-Ten

"Re-Sepp-Ten" is a 1986 Danish language football song released on Replay Records that was battle song for the Denmark national football team for 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.

Stan Hauser

In 1914 he was capped twice by England at amateur level, playing in an 8–1 victory in Brussels against the Belgium national team and a 3–0 defeat to the Denmark national side in Copenhagen.

Super Formation Soccer 94

Using two special codes, the player will have access to the special/hidden teams which didn't take part in the 1994 World Cup: England, Wales, Uruguay, Denmark and France.

Tomislav Ivković

His first major international tournament was UEFA Euro 1984 in France, where he was the team's second-choice behind Zoran Simović: the nation lost all of its three group matches at the tournament, with Ivković's only appearance coming in the team's second game, a 0–5 defeat to Denmark.

Viktor Pečovský

On 15 August 2012, he made his debut with the Slovak senior team in the friendly match win 3–1 against Denmark in Odense.


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