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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Brian Laudrup: Denmark 1992 – Football’s Greatest Fairy Tale Part One

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Brian Laudrup was part of the Denmark side who were last-minute additions to Euro ’92. They would have been happy to have taken a point… but they only went on to win the tournament!

Brian and his brother Michael weren’t keen on coach Richard Moller Nielsen’s ideas and both quit the national side. But Brian and Neilsen managed to sort things out only three months before the Euro finals began. When Yugoslavia were disqualified and Denmark invited to take their place just eight days prior to their first game, Brian didn’t think he was recovered enough from a recent injury. But he soon warmed to the idea of proving that Denmark weren’t the ugly ducklings everyone thought they were.

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Graham

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0:00.0

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0:50.0

so maybe even strangers in the street. Love you. Of course to somebody of my generation it feels astonishing that not all of you will remember that there was a country called Yugoslavia. Not all of you will remember that Denmark won the euros in

1:18.7

1992 or how that came about. So this is what the big interview is for, I think. This episode is with the

1:29.2

crown prince of that triumph, one of the great elegant technically gifted thrilling

1:36.5

footballers of our generation, Brian Laudrop.

1:41.5

Brian joins us to give a forensic breakdown of how Denmark won those euros in what is one of the two great all-time underdog international tournament win stories.

1:56.4

The success actually was born in the club called Bromby,

2:01.0

Bromby the Danes call it, I think, years previously, where an incredible coming together of talent,

2:08.0

including Brian Laudrop, Peter Schmichael, amongst many others, laid foundations for what was to happen with the national team in

2:16.1

1992. This tale has everything, a real clash of football beliefs and personal animus which resulted in both Brian Laudra and Michael Laudra quitting the Danish team managed by Richard Miller Nielsen, the same man who would eventually bring glory to Denmark before

2:34.3

Brian decided to return before the tournament, not because he sniffed glory

2:38.7

for completely different reasons and then suddenly the opportunity to play in the euros in Sweden was

2:46.2

thrust upon him. He tells us everything about that, the stress. He looks each way and

2:51.1

talks about some of the key members of the team, including Schmichael.

2:54.4

He explains to us why he and his brother quit, why they left Richard Molle-Nieelson to his devices as coach of Denmark,

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