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Going off topic : while people in my place are crazy about Brazilian football, or Messi or Argentina, personally l love the Nordic teams when it comes to football. My town had been a French colony, while a neighbouring town had been Danish.
I'm not a football fan, or a fan of any sport. But I do know that here Argentina is very highly regarded as a leading football nation.
Denmark Sweden play far better football.
Wow, I'm surprised you think so, I thought Brazil and Argentina were better. But again, it's not something I really follow. When I was a child in the 70's, Denmark was "rΓΈven a fjerde division." a very impolite way of saying we sucked very very badly. The ass (bottom) of the fourth league. And Sweden was way better than us.
then a plan was made in the Danish football league, that we needed to make professional football legal, and build the top league around professional teams like they had in for instance UK.
That paid off already in 1984 where Denmark reached the semi final in the European championship. A previously completely unheard of result for the national team. Where in the 70's I doubt we ever even qualified to participate.
I still remember some of the names of the Danish national team from back then, and that we lost to France.
8 years later we actually won the European championship over Germany, ironically during very tough negotiations in EU, because Denmark had voted no to a new treaty.
Our foreign minister even saw the match together with the German delegation, and the smirk on his face when he came out after was priceless. And he said: "If you can't join them, beat them!"
I can't overstate how much of a sensation it was for us to win the European championship, as a very small country against many countries with 20 times as much money and talent to pull from.
Those were good times. π π π π
I was born in 1984. And when Denmark lost to Australia in 2022 World Cup, l stopped watching football.
The Danish footballers are some of the fiercest footballers in the world.