Denmark's Shock Win at the European Championship
How the Danish football team won the Euro 1992 tournament despite failing to qualify.
In 1992, the Danish football team were called back from their beach holidays and invited to play in the European Championship when Yugoslavia began to collapse into civil war. Despite their failure to qualify properly for the tournament, Denmark beat Holland and then Germany to clinch a surprise victory. Will Yates talk to midfielder, John Jensen, who scored one of the Danish goals in the final. The programme is a Whistledown Production.
(Photo: The Danish team celebrate. Credit: Getty Images)
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