EM-hero Flemming Povlsen will be one of the spearheads of the Danish part of the european football championship in 2020.
Dansk Boldspil-Union (DBU) has appointed former landsholdsangriber to the ambassador for the event, which culminates in June 2020, where the Park in Copenhagen should lay the grass for four matches in the finals.
– I should be with to make them aware of how big an impact it has for the DBU and Denmark, that we are to arrange such an event, says Flemming Povlsen.
to mark the european championship’s 60-year anniversary will be the finals in 2020, spread out across the 12 host countries, and it has given Denmark the opportunity to become the host of a herrefodboldslutrunde for the first time.
There must be more than 1000 volunteers, and Povlsens first task as ambassador will be to do the advertising for just the part on Football’s Congress, held in Horsens in the coming weekend.
– Both active play and as a tv expert I have been a part of EM in one way or another since 1988. I have seen what goes on at the side of the track.
Players wearing it sporty, and then there is also no economy. But the volunteers are selling in many ways the event. It is the many volunteers that take the tourists and is a part of it, says Flemming Povlsen.
The now 52-year-old former football player even participated in two of the EM-finals. First time in west Germany in 1988, where he as a young, impetuous striker scored one of the goals in Denmark’s 2-3 defeat to Spain.
Four years later he was a key player in Richard Møller Nielsen’s team, who came to the european championships in Sweden on apologies and went home with the cup.
My identity is very tied up in my football career, and 1992 are still referred to, when I meet people on the street.
– I can easily put myself into the feeling people get when they see a big or surprising sportspræstation. And all who are over 35, have a relationship to 1992, says Flemming Povlsen.
While Sweden at the time could be the host for a championship with the participation of eight teams, has since 2016 has been across 24 nations to the final stages.
Flemming Povlsen in connection with the 25th anniversary of the EM-triumph. Photo: Joachim Ladefoged/Polfoto
It has made it unrealistic for the smaller countries to lift a eneværtskab, and that is why they are four matches on Danish soil probably a engangsoplevelse.
– the Event has grown very much, but the content itself is the same. You create excitement about a team, you create enthusiasm in a country. It appears one time and time again.
– the Last time we saw it, was Iceland at the european championships in France in 2016. We saw how they grew as a nation. It is, as football can. I have the mark on their own body, says Flemming Povlsen.
last week, it was officially, to Denmark in 2021 should be the host of the three stages of the Tour de France.
But Robinson will do his, to the attention of the european football championship is not going to suffer under the giant cykelarrangement the year after.
– EM 2020 appeals in a different way to fodboldfolket. After all, there are many that go up in the football at nationwide and worldwide.
– If the Danish team to qualify, so it’s just a unifying effect and gives a fællesskabsfornemmelse.
– So we can run the Tour de France, a bicycle storage room right now, for there is something else, sportsfolket in Denmark is also going to be interested in, think Flemming Povlsen.
At the european championships in 2020 put the Park grass for the three preliminary group stage matches and a ottendedelsfinale.
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