Soccer World Cup 2010 / Denmark

This article covers the Danish national team at the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa .

The Danish team was last qualified for an international tournament in 2004; At the European Championship in Portugal, the red and white were eliminated in the quarter-finals against the Czech Republic . They owed their only international title, the European Championship in 1992 , to the exclusion of Yugoslavia , for which they came into the field as a substitute starter and ultimately beat world champions Germany in the final .

In addition to the World Cup qualifying matches, the Danes played three friendlies in the 2009/10 season, all three of which were played in Denmark against other World Cup participants. There was a 2-1 defeat against Chile in August , a 0-0 win against South Korea and a 3-1 win against the USA in November . At the draw for the World Cup in South Africa, they were drawn to the group with the Netherlands , against whom they last scored 1-1 shortly before the 2008 European Championship in Eindhoven . Furthermore, Japan and Cameroon were drawn into the group. In January 2010, the Ligalandsholdet , a national team with only players from the Danish league, won a tournament in Thailand under coach Morten Olsen . The Danes defeated a Polish league selection 3-1, the senior national team of Singapore 5-1 and in the final the hosts' A selection 3-0.

qualification

Danish Dynamite was able to prevail in qualification group 1 against the favored Portuguese and the neighbors from Sweden . Morten Olsen's team secured first place ahead of Portugal with just one defeat - against Hungary in the last game, when the qualification was already established.

Hungary	-	Denmark	0-0
Portugal	-	Denmark	2: 3 (1: 0)
Denmark	-	Malta	3: 0 (2: 0)
Malta	-	Denmark	0: 3 (0: 2)
Denmark	-	Albania	3: 0 (2: 0)
Sweden	-	Denmark	0: 1 (0: 1)
Denmark	-	Portugal	1: 1 (1: 0)
Albania	-	Denmark	1: 1 (0: 1)
Denmark	-	Sweden	1: 0 (0: 0)
Denmark	-	Hungary	0: 1 (0: 1)

• The goals were scored by Søren Larsen (5), Nicklas Bendtner (3), Christian Poulsen (2), Daniel Agger , Leon Andreasen , Daniel Jensen , Thomas Kahlenberg , Morten Nordstrand and Jakob Poulsen .

Closing table

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Denmark	16: 5	21st
2	Portugal	17: 5	19th
3	Sweden	13: 5	18th
4th	Hungary	10: 8	16
5	Albania	6:13	7th
6th	Malta	0:26	1

Danish contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Thomas Sørensen	Stoke City	06/12/1976	3	0	1	0	0
16	Stephan Andersen	Brøndby IF	11/26/1981	0	0	0	0	0
22nd	Jesper Christiansen	FC Copenhagen	04/24/1978	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
3	Simon Kjaer	US Palermo	03/26/1989	2	0	2	0	0
4th	Daniel Agger	Liverpool FC	12/12/1984	3	0	0	0	0
6th	Lars Jacobsen	Blackburn Rovers	09/20/1979	3	0	0	0	0
13	Per Krøldrup	AC Florence	07/31/1979	1	0	1	0	0
15th	Simon Poulsen	AZ Alkmaar	07/10/1984	3	0	0	0	0
23	Patrick Mtiliga	Málaga CF	01/28/1981	0	0	0	0	0
midfield player
2	Christian Poulsen	Juventus Turin	02/28/1980	2	0	1	0	0
5	William Kvist	FC Copenhagen	02/24/1985	0	0	0	0	0
7th	Daniel Jensen	SV Werder Bremen	06/25/1979	1	0	0	0	0
10	Martin Jørgensen	Aarhus GF	10/06/1975	3	0	0	0	0
12	Thomas Kahlenberg	VfL Wolfsburg	03/20/1983	3	0	0	0	0
14th	Jakob Poulsen	Aarhus GF	07/07/1983	1	0	0	0	0
17th	Mikkel Beckmann	Randers FC	October 24, 1983	1	0	0	0	0
20th	Thomas Enevoldsen	FC Groningen	07/27/1987	1	0	0	0	0
21st	Christian Eriksen	Ajax Amsterdam	02/14/1992	2	0	0	0	0
striker
8th	Jesper Grønkjær	FC Copenhagen	08/12/1977	2	0	0	0	0
9	Jon Dahl Tomasson	Feyenoord Rotterdam	08/29/1976	2	1	0	0	0
11	Nicklas Bendtner	Arsenal FC	January 16, 1988	3	1	1	0	0
18th	Søren Larsen	MSV Duisburg	09/06/1981	1	0	0	0	0
19th	Dennis Rommedahl	Ajax Amsterdam	07/22/1978	3	1	0	0	0
Trainer
	Morten Olsen		08/14/1949

Crew quarters

During the World Cup, the Danish team moved into their base camp in the Simola Gold and Country Estate above the Garden Route near Knysna on the coast between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth , a luxurious country hotel with a view of the lagoon and the Indian Ocean .

Games

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Netherlands	5: 1	9
2	Japan	4: 2	6th
3	Denmark	3: 6	3
4th	Cameroon	2: 5	0

After the expected defeat against group favorites Netherlands, Denmark opened up all their chances by defeating Cameroon. But in the decisive game for second place and thus the second place in the round of 16, they were clearly defeated by the Japanese and eliminated from the tournament and thus for the first time in a final round at a soccer World Cup in the preliminary round.

• Monday, June 14, 2010 : Netherlands - Denmark 2: 0 (0: 0)
• Saturday, June 19, 2010 : Cameroon - Denmark 1: 2 (1: 1)
• Thursday 24 June 2010 : Denmark 1: 3 (0: 2) Japan

For details, see Football World Cup 2010 # Group E

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ligalandsholdet whopping TRUMF på , the DBU website from January 23, 2010
2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: statistics of the players from the World Cup qualifying squads at the DBU
3. ↑ VM-hotel ved Det Indiske Ocean , DBU website, viewed on January 13, 2010