The 1992 Danish football team competes for the European Championship.
When the charismatic Sepp Piontek resigns as manager of the national Danish football team, the logical successor is his assistant, Richard Møller Nielsen (played by Ulrich Thomsen). Richard's reign as manager turns into a catastrophe and the team fails to qualify for Euro 1992. But suddenly, due to UN sanctions, Yugoslavia is out of the Euro and Denmark is in. And what follows is a little bit of sporting magic. Director Kasper Borfoed was there to watch the Euro final in 1992, and dreamed of making a film capturing those turbulent weeks when everything changed.
The Danish national soccer team's coach Richard Moller Nielsen battles a divided team that refuses to play by his tactics. No one save his wife understands his quirks and unorthodox methods, leaving the players and the national association, press and population shaking their heads. Star players quit the national team to focus on their champion clubs, making the coach the most maligned man in the country, and everything looks bleak for his seat as the team fails to qualify for the 1992 Euro Cup in Sweden. But UEFA disqualifies war-torn Yugoslavia from participating in the European championship, giving the Danes an unexpected chance to play. Out of shape, out of touch and up against the best soccer nations of Europe, only one man in Denmark now believes, that the Danish players can go all the way ... their coach.
