Led by superstar striker Pernille Harder, Denmark are aiming to silence 80,000 Australian fans on Monday night
When the Danish team arrived in Australia for the Women’s World Cup, they set up camp in Perth. It was, coach Lars Søndergaard said, a great place to prepare for the tournament, with warm weather akin to the Danish summer.
But the players were particularly touched when some young footballers from Denmark, Western Australia, a small town near Albany on the state’s southern tip, travelled five hours to greet the team at their pre-World Cup training. The town was named after a Scottish naval surgeon, rather than the European nation, but it was a nice gesture all the same. “That was perfect,” Søndergaard said. “Better preparation we couldn’t have had.”
