Crownprince Frederik visited the Danish National football team

DANISH TEAM PRESS CONFERENCE AND TRAINING

Denmark is training again before the match against Belgium on Thursday.

Danish Crownprince Frederik visited today Danish National football team at the training to support the team in the emotional times after Christian Eriksens heart attack Saturday during the match against Finland being watches all over the world.

Several from the Danish team has been in contact with Christian Eriksen, which is helping the process to get ready again.

“The most important thing for the team is, that Christian Eriksen is well. That is so great”, says the Denmark’s head coach Kasper Hjulmand.

UEFA has been criticized for playing the game Saturday. UEAF has stated, that they listened to the players choice from both teams,. 

However Kasper Hjulmand is frustrated. ”It was a wrong decision by UEFA to give those two choices, play now or tomorrow at 12”.
The Danish Head coach Kasper Hjulmand regrets he didn’t force all out in a bus and back to the hotel. He believes that the team would have won under normal circumstances.

He hopes it will be a lesson for the future.

Kasper Hjulmand belives no one can replace Christian Eriksen, but the team will “do something else, something different, because you can not replace Christian Eriksen, but we will definitely have a strong team on the pitch with a lot of quality, and we have a very strong team united together, ready to fight”

The Danish team training camp is 30 minutes north of Copenhagen, where Christian Eriksen is being tested and the match against Belgium starts Thursday at 18.00 in Parken.
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SHOTLIST:

  • Danish team training

  • Various Crownprince Frederik visit Danish Team at training

  • PRESS CONFERENCE, DANISH TRAINING CAMP, HELSINGØR
    SOUNDBITE Kasper Hjulmand, Head Coach Denmark:
    “Had a communication, which is great.
    We have had a couple of players visiting Christian, talking to him. I am in contact myself and a lot of players of course are doing the same thing.
    So it is very comforting that Christian is alright. He is going through a lot of test and of course also a journey himself in his person.
    But we are preparing based on, that we are so relieved that Christian is okay. We will do our best to prepare for the match. We will do our very best to get on the pitch against Belgium and play one of the best teams in the world. But I think every hour helps us. Every training session, we have left, helps us. And we will do our very best to prepare for the match and play a great game Thursday. That is our biggest aim and I think we will be very difficult to beat. We will definitely do our best. 

  • Various training. Goalkeepers. Kasper Schmeichel.

  • SOUNDBITE Kasper Hjulmand, Head Coach Denmark cont.:
    “I think that there is a learning lesson here. I don´t think it was the right decision. Looking back I don’t feel right that we were there after the incident. I think it showed so much strength for the guys, to be able to go out and play. That shows so much character. So much character, so much strength, and I am very proud of that. Having said that, I don’t think it was the right thing to be given those two choices, play now or tomorrow at 12 and leave that decision with us, with the players. I don’t think that it was the right thing, the right thing to lead this evening, and i think that it was a very difficult, some very very difficult minutes to take that decision, and to be left with that decision. So i don’t think that was the right way and maybe it is a learning lesson for the future”

  • Various training with Simon Kjær

  • SOUNDBITE Kasper Hjulmand, Head Coach Denmark cont.:
    “No one can replace Christian. No one. It is not possible. He is out best player on the ball. He is the rhythm on the team. He is the heart on the team. He feels the rhythm in a match. He is available for the one who has the ball. He dictates with his passing, with his eyes, with his decisions, with his enormous ability to take control of space and to take advantage of space, with his passing and his vision. It is not possible to replace him. But together we will do something else, something different, because you can not replace Christian Eriksen, but we will definitely have a strong team on the pitch with a lot of quality, and we have a very strong team united together, ready to fight”

  • Various training with Simon Kjær

  • Various Crownprince Frederik visit Danish Team at training

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LINKS:
FIFA WORLD RANK:

https://www.11v11.com/teams/denmark/option/ranking/

Press kit EURO:

https://dbu.dk/presse/press-kit-national-team/mens-a-national-team/press-kit/