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There are matches that burn themselves into a country’s fodboldsjæl.
Battles, as we remember, but wish we could forget.
the Pain and the idea of what could have happened, never disappear completely. It gets better with time, but they will always be there as a scar.
Preben Elkjaer straffesparksafbrænder against Spain at the european championships in ’84, Jesper Olsen’s fatal replacement against the spaniards at the WORLD cup two years later, Bakeros insidious presentation of Schmeichel who cost us the ticket to the WORLD cup 1994.
And then there are all the golden moments and magical memories, as we thankfully will never forget to remember.
Constitution day 1985 against the Soviet union in the Final, european championship final in Gothenburg in ’92, and of course the match against Uruguay, where an enthusiastic Svend Gehrs exclaimed, ’this is brilliant, what is there’.
‘No, he is waiting!’ Michael Laudrup rounds the Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Álvez and bring Denmark in front 3-1. Photo: Morten Langkilde/Ritzau Scanpix
writing is still articles about Denmark’s WORLD cup showdown against Uruguay in 1986, and it is not only at home, that the fight has made an indelible impression.
Many fell in love in the Sepp Pionteks dynamitdrenge, but the day of the Nezahualcóyoti crushed the also hearts and dreams.
Diego Forlán was just seven, but the uruguayan football legend still remember the experience in front of the tv screen.
– It was my first WORLD cup. We played a really good match against west Germany and got a draw, and then there was the fight against you….
– It was incredible and completely devastating for us. We still remember the Time and the other major players had on the team, says the uruguayan football legend for an Extra Magazine.
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the 41-year-old Diego Forlán is among the greatest football players and personalities in Uruguay.
He played 112 matches and scored 36 goals . Only Suárez and Cavani have made several goals for ‘La Celeste’.
Forlán was the big star on the team, who in 2010 became the number four for the WORLD cup. He made five goals and got Guldbolden as the tournament’s best player.
On the klubplan he was in among other Manchester United , Villerreal , Atlético Madrid and Inter .
Best he did it in Spanish football, where he was league season in both 2004/05 and 2008/09. In the season 2004/05 he shared the european topscorerpris, european golden boot , with Thierry Henry.
Forlán won both Premier League and FA Cup with Manchester United and Europa League with Atlético Madrid. He led his country to triumph in the Copa América in 2011 and scored twice in the final.
Forlán stopped his active career in august 2019 and were shortly before christmas presented as a new coach of Peñarol .
Ekstra Bladet spoke with Diego Forlán in the reboot of Spanish football. He is an ambassador for the La Liga and lined up to interview with several Danish and scandinavian media, including the Extra Magazine.
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Together with Luis Suárez is 41-year-old Forlán was the biggest player in the recent past in Uruguay. Two times he was the top scorer in La Liga and at the WORLD cup in 2010 in south Africa, he was selected to the tournament best player.
Uruguay reached the semifinals at the apartment, while those in 1986 and never really got over 1-6-the defeat to Denmark, and went home after 1/8 finals.
– And we had a good team, a really good team, ” says Forlán.
Uruguay was the defending Copa América champions, and had Enzo Francescoli.
The elegant 10’is, as Zinedine Zidane has named one of his sons after, were the big uruguayan star.
He was their Michael Laudrup, but Francescolis reduction before the break meant only, that the proud fodboldland not veered its biggest defeat ever.
I remember that it was hard to see the fight. To see them score so many goals. It was a good goal, and it is so light out, even though it is not easy.
Denmark had great players, most playing for big clubs and got a nice career, says Diego Forlán.
Diego Forlán was målkonge in Atlético Madrid. Photo: Sergio Pérez/Ritzau Scanpix
Denmark has the fight been recently rebroadcast, but in Uruguay it’s not the first fight, the tv stations pulling forward for the archive.
Diego Forlán, who today is the coach of Peñarol, tells the dog to Ekstra Bladet, that he would like to revisit it to find out if it was as bad as he remembers it.
– I so not all of the 90 minutes then. I was seven years old. But when you see a 6-1 score, you think, that either did the team all wrong, or also scored the other on everything they had.
– I do not know whether it was one or the other. We played not well and met a great team, says Diego Forlán, who like many others in the small south american country with the big fodboldtraditioner have a hard time understanding that it could go so wrong:
– You don’t see the Uruguay cashing six goals. We are always solid defensively, so on the way, it was completely different.
– The Danish players came through from everywhere. It was really good … for you, not for us!
6-1 stood on the measured breeding, when Denmark’s group match against Uruguay was whistled by. Photo: Lars Poulsen
Denmark had a team, which according to experts had the potential to win the WORLD cup, but Jesper Olsen’s haunting and pretty involuntary frispilning of Butragueño in the 1/8 final against Spain was the beginning of the end for the danes.
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Diego Forlán stopped the last years of his career and is now coach of the home member state in Peñarol. Photo: Diego Vara/Ritzau Scanpix
would have liked to have lived in Denmark
Diego Forlán came about in his career, which ended last year.
In the last year he was both in India and Hong Kong and in 2015, rumored to Scandinavia, as a stay in Japan was over.
With a smile he tells that there was something about the conversation, and that it could have been a good place to live for him.
Therefore, he understands too well why his two compatriots with Guillermo Varela and Michael Santos is to be found in Danish football with FCK.
– It is a nice country to live in. Denmark is great, and the quality of life is great. La Liga, Serie A, Premier League and the Bundesliga is of course topligaerne in the world, but the scandinavian leagues are also hard.
– It is not an easy place to play. It is very physical leagues, and then there’s the cold and the winter, ” says Forlán, who, before his stop came to stand over for Michael Santos in the Copa Libertadores and, of course, also has a concluded knowledge Guillermo Varela.
Guillermo Varela (tv.) and Michael Santos (th.) celebrate along with Dame N’Doye a derbysejr over Brøndby. Photo: Jens Dresling
– Guillermo is a really good player, and I’m happy on his behalf that he gets matches and also do it well. The other day I heard him and Santos talk in the radio. They were really happy.
Santos is also a good player. He scores goals, he is fast. He had not the best time in Spain, but if he does it well in Denmark, he gets maybe a chance to get to La Liga or another good league, says Diego Forlán.
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