The Spark That Lit Danish Dynamite

from OTD: Your Daily Dose of Soccer History · host 17 Laws Guy

OTD E0215 — 03 Jun 1981: Denmark beat Italy 3–1 in a World Cup qualifier in Copenhagen. Italy would go on to win the 1982 World Cup; Denmark would not even qualify. But this was the signal: Sepp Piontek’s discipline, Simonsen, Arnesen, Lerby, Elkjær, Røntved, the foreign-based generation, and the first spark of what became Danish Dynamite. Ideas: [email protected]

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