The exclusion of Yugoslavia for the war, the rejection of the star Michael Laudrup, the uncertain beginning and the apotheosis against Germany: in 1992 the Danes wrote one of the most memorable pages in football
It’s a near summer day in 1992 when Richard Møller-Nielsen hears the phone ring. For a moment he thinks he’s not answering. This is not the time. He has just found an agreement with his wife Jonna, and he is exhausted, because he risked a divorce after a sensational fight over the work to be done in the house by the sea. Yes, alright, love, let’s do the kitchen again. The fridge you want, of course, let’s change the plumbing as well. It was not easy, but a coach who manages a team – and he has been the coach of Denmark for two years – can also manage to find a compromise with his wife. And then he has time he has as much as he wants: that summer he is free from commitments.
