LThe Danish flag will fly tonight at the Enrique Roca in Murcia. Next to the Spanish one the Dannebrogthe national pavilion that is considered the oldest in the world.
It was not in the current Denmark where the origins of the flag are found with the white cross on a red background. It is in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, where its roots are. Legend has it that on June 15, 1219, during the Northern Crusades in which the Danish Catholics fought against the Estonians, a flag came down from the sky in support of Valdemar II. The Danish king, nicknamed The Victoriousthen saw the course of the battle change. Because the story of the flag tells that its fall from the sky marked the change so that its soldiers, called by the Pope to suffocate the Estonians, were about to be defeated in the battle of Lindanise.
In Tallinn, in the Danish King’s GardenEvery June 15, Denmark’s national day, Danish flag day is celebrated. And there you can read the history it contains.
A special t-shirt
The Spanish team contrasts the history of the Danish flag with a shirt for history. Tonight the red jacket appears for the first time with the three champion marks that the team wears: the world champion star and the defender patches. Nations League and of the Euro 2024.
Because Spain has not played in red since the Euro final. The two September games, in Belgrade and Genevaplayed them in yellow, which will also be the color he wears during his visit to Denmark in November.
Danish nightmare
For the Danes, the Spanish team is a ghost that runs through their history. It has been since the first time they crossed paths, which was on August 28, 1920. The first-time Spain beat the two-time Olympic silver medalist in the Games in Brussels thanks to the goal of Patricio Arabolaza.
It was the starting point of a story between the two teams in which of 14 games, 12 were Spanish victories and only two were Danish ones. In that journey, in addition to what was experienced in 1920, there are unique moments for Spanish football. There is the semi-final of the 1984 Euro, with the goal of Maceda and the penalties to be in the final after the failure of the great Danish star, Preben Elkjaer-Larssen. That wonderful Danish generation clashed two years later with Spain in the round of 16 of the World Cup in Mexico. The Danes happily promised them after overtaking Jesper Olsen to the Red Dynamite, but the afternoon in Querétaro was the night of the four goals of Butragueño and the final 5-1.
Two years later, the two opened their group at the Euros in Germany. 3-1 for Spain, although both went home in the first phase. In 1993, Spain left out Denmark of the 1994 World Cup with Hierro’s goal in Seville, a goal for which the Danes continue to claim Hierro’s fault Peter Schmeichel.
Spain’s last great moment against the Danes was in October 2007. With water up to their necks and hit by injuries, the Spain of Luis was played in Copenhagen depend on itself to go to the Euro 2008. Far from being intimidated, the Spanish team left a football lesson that is still remembered. Of that teaching in Aarhus Stadium Ramos’s goal remains as the banner, the 0-2, the one with 65 touches in 75 seconds. And in Copenhagen the Del Bosque era began with a devastating 0-3.
In official matches, Denmark has only won one. It was March 31, 1993, on the way to the World Cup in the United States. A goal from Flemming Povlsen ruled a match in which the Dutch referee Mario van der Ende He did not signal a resounding knockdown of Nadal in the Danish area. The other Nordic victory was in Cádiz: 1-3, in 1979.
