Denmark

Denmark has long punched above its weight on the international stage. A nation of fewer than six million people, the Danish Dynamite era of the 1980s — led by the mercurial talents of Michael Laudrup and Preben Elkjær — announced them as a force to be reckoned with. That reputation was cemented in 1992 when, as late replacements for Yugoslavia, they stunned the football world by winning the European Championship in Sweden. The Christian Eriksen generation kept Denmark in the elite bracket, r...