Before we talk about the Danish team, let's go back to the context of the time. There were a lot of things that changed and were about to change in that edition of the European Cup, the system facial part, it was the last tournament in the history of the European Cup with only eight teams in the final round, and also the last edition of the group stage to win the game and take two points, previously mentioned the return kick rule, this year is also the last tournament to use it.
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On the political front, there was the dissolution of the Soviet Union before the last game of the qualifying round, which was replaced by the Association of Independent States, and the merger of East and West Germany, which led to the first participation in a Worlds-type tournament as Germany. In addition, there was the breakup of Yugoslavia, the first time Germany participated in a World Series since the merger of East and West Germany. It was also the first time that the names of the players were printed on the jerseys. All of these extraordinary events seemed to foreshadow what was to come in this tournament.
(Euro 1992 winners - Denmark. (Photo credit: Reuters)
Euro 1992 Qualification
The qualification tournament is divided into seven groups, and after deducting the hosts Sweden, who can participate, only seven teams can participate, so it is the team that tops the group that can
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.. This year's first-time qualifiers are the Faroe Islands and St. Maryknoll, while the first-ranked teams are the Netherlands, England, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, West Germany and Romania, with the final groupings and results as follows.
(Qualifying groups and results. Photo credit: UEFA)
The situation of each group, Group 1 was the first class Spain played extremely poorly, they in the second and third class Czechoslovakia and France in the 4 games only won 1 Czechoslovakia, 1 wins and 3 defeats against each other, in addition, they also lost to Iceland by 0-2, the final 3 wins and 4 defeats only 6 points, quite a messy out of the game, while France, although only the third class team, but the group stage of the 8 matches were all victorious!
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Group 2 is extremely fierce, except for the first-time participant San Marino, the other four teams are close to each other, Romania in the first slot in the penultimate round of the 1-0 victory over Switzerland, points to 9 points, Scotland and Switzerland are finished, Scotland 11 points, Switzerland 10 points, because the same points than the difference in goal difference, so Romania as long as the last round to beat Bulgaria has been eliminated (goal difference needs to 2) will be It is possible to
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But in the end, Romania drew 1-1 and sent Scotland into the final round.
In Group 3, Italy was eliminated from the tournament after two 0-0 matches against the USSR and one draw and one loss against Norway. The Soviet Union was dissolved at the end of 1991, so after defeating Cyprus 3-0 in the final round of qualifying, the Soviet Union ended up in the history books, and the final round was changed to the final round to be played by Russia.
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The Association of Independent States of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova and Tajikistan is participating.
There were no major surprises in the other four groups, with all four first-tier teams making it to the top of the table.
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(Da Schmeichel with Chris Ford. Photo credit: Reuters)
Denmark
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I'm sure you're wondering, wasn't Yugoslavia the winner of Group 4? How come it's Denmark in the end?
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In the end, Yugoslavia was disqualified by UEFA and Denmark, the runner-up of the group, took part in the tournament instead.
As it was only ten days before the start of the Europa League that UEFA banned Yugoslavia from participating, manager Nielsen said he received a call at that time asking them to prepare for the tournament, and most of the players were still on vacation and only had to prepare for the international friendlies, and then suddenly they were told that they would have to take part in the intra-conference tournament of the Europa League.
However, team player Kim Vilfort was interviewed afterwards and said that they had thought that they would be able to compete because Yugoslavia had been canceled, saying: "A lot of people didn't believe that this would happen, but the players had thought about it in conversation, and then we saw the news saying that Denmark was going to compete, and of course there was no way that we could have said no", he said.
At this point in time, the UEFA Intra-Conference Championships consisted of eight countries: Sweden, France, Scotland, the Association of Independent Nationalities, Germany, the Netherlands, England, and Denmark.
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At this moment in time, no one should believe that Denmark will finally get the title.
Euro 1992
The 9th UEFA European Cup was held in Sweden, which was the first time that Sweden was able to enter the tournament, and another first-time participant was Scotland. Since the FIFA World Ranking was only released in 1993, there was no objective standard to evaluate the strength of the 8 participating countries. However, to give you an idea of the situation at that time, we will first use the first announced ranking (December 31, 1992) for your reference, as well as the number of times each country has participated in the tournament and their historical results.
Looking at the chart above, all eight teams are ranked higher than Denmark, except for Scotland and France who are ranked lower than Denmark in the world.
