Denmark will participate to a World Cup for the fifth time in the history of the national football team. We can remember some great danish players as Henrik Larsen, the brothers Brian and Michael Laudrup who played in important european clubs, but also Peter Schmeichel who was the goalkeeper of the great Manchester United who won several competition in the 90s. These players lead the Danish national football team to win the European Cup in 1992 against Germany. That's a great result if we think that only 20 years before the Danish Football Association (DBU) only allowed amateurism at the national team. Until 1971 football remained an amateur past-time in Denmark. For this reason most of the best Danish football players had to move abroad to make a living, and consequently, the national football team wasn't very competitive. The fact that a lot of players of national team were playing abroad convinced the DBU to abolish the amateurism rule in 1971. In 1977 Allan Simonsen, a Danish player from Borussia Mönchengladbach, was crowned the best player in Europe, winning the Ballon d'Or. Probably this has helped to speed up the process, and would then allow the professional football players to play in the Danish league in 1978. Finally, the DBU chose the German coach Sepp Piontek as the first professional coach of the national team in 1979. For the occasion of 2018 World Cup, Retrofootball® launches the retro shirt of Danish national football team in the 70s.

Retro football shirt Denmark 70s

But the retro shirt of the Danish national football team in the 70s