Description
Book SynopsisThe story of the coolest international football team in history - the 1980s Danish national team - told for the first time in English.
The Denmark side of the 1980s was one of the last truly iconic international football teams. Although they did not win a trophy, they claimed something much more important and enduring: glory, and in industrial quantities. They were a bewitching fusion of futuristic attacking football, effortless Scandinavian cool and laid-back living. They played like angels and lived like you and I, and they were everyone's second team in the mid-1980s. The story of Danish Dynamite, as the team became known, is the story of a team of rock stars in a polyester Hummel kit.
Hailing from a country with no real football history to speak of and a population of five million, this humble and likeable team was unique. Everymen off the field and superheroes on it, they were totally of their time, and their approach to the game was in complete contrast t
Trade Review
Danish Dynamite is a wonderful read and an exhilarating nostalgia trip. * When Saturday Comes *
Full of interviews with Laudrup, Elkjaer et al, this celebration is a hugely uplifting one * Four Four Two *
It will remind you just how laid-back and cool some losers can be. * Esquire *
This enjoyable reverie is worth having * Irish Examiner *
Table of Contents
1 Mr and Mrs Bignell 2 For he's a jolly good fellow 3 Alemano Bruto 4 Concrete illness 5 De Vlo effect 6 Twin towers 7 The sparrow and the shadow 8 The roligans 9 'If I had a gun...' 10 The first time 11 Poster boys 12 'The game' 13 Gloria Dana 14 'Re-Sepp-Ten' 15 For Denmark 16 A public fiesta of football 17 Pyrrhic victory 18 The worst time 19 The binary boys 20 Glory 21 When we should have been world champions Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
