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In the nearly one year he has ’stored’ in the role as a consultant in the DBU. He has travelled Europe thick and thin in order to be inspired for future challenges in the job as national coach. He has visited Atletico Madrid, the Dutch, German and belgian football association to see if there was a few low hanging fruits, he could take home to Denmark.

But now report the severity for Kasper Hjulmand, who officially joined in the job as national coach.

Nothing is usually after coronaen hit the international community earlier in the year. Therefore, Åge Hareide stopped prematurely, and Kasper Hjulmand have sat in the chair with the view to stand at the forefront of Denmark, when the EM-finals to be played next summer in denmark.

I had wished that Åge Hareide had done, so I could join the 1. august. So it was not, but I think Hareide deserve all possible respect for the work he has done. He came to Denmark at a difficult time for the national team, says Kasper Hjulmand. Photo: Lars Poulsen.

A free gift for the new national coach, taking in the beautiful summer weather on the new site at DBU Allé in denmark. It is here, the thoughts and the ideas born for the next four years of work with fodboldlandsholdet.

- You can not imagine that it is the same 23 players, which qualified Denmark for the european championships in november last year, we use for the european championships finals next summer. There will be many repeats, but there will also be replacements. It is completely natural, " says Kasper Hjulmand in an interview with Ekstra Bladet.

He will at the present time not at all discuss who can be on the seesaw. Here is the time line for the EM too long. But change is going to happen. It does that because Hjulmand, in many ways, also sees football a bit differently than its predecessor.

The 48-year-old coach has replaced a man, which ended with no to lose 34 games in a row. And so skilled he Denmark to two finals in a row. Hareide created the results, but he did not create the great euphoria and excitement in football-the danes.

- I am not thinking so much about to succeed Hareide on top of the results he has delivered, but I know that it is a paragraph that is being spoken about. I concede also that it is always harder to follow up a success, when measured up against the other, he says.

He gets a rough start on the job, when he for the september meetings number one and four in the world – Belgium and England – in the Nations League, if the fighting is being conducted. Iceland is the last team in the group.

- of course, There is a risk we lose the battles, but we can also win them. In any case it is good opportunity to measure ourselves against the best.

- Right now we do not know whether we should play the matches. We hope, but we know nothing. There is a hope on UEFA to clarify it at a meeting 17. June, says Kasper Hjulmand, that if the matches get six tough efterårskampe to see its players closer to the lead.

Regardless of what gets the team an unusual period of time with a busy year, where in addition to Nations League to be played WORLD cup qualifiers and settled in a european championship finals.

the Players from the big leagues get to play very many matches. I may well be worried about the players being burned out. Some may hoist the flag for them with the many struggles there is.

- The tight fixtures can mean that we are going to rotate with a wider squad, when we know kampprogrammet, because both at club and national team to be played many matches in a short time, " says Kasper Hjulmand.

Which image he is going to put on the national team, he will be in the details good wait to get into the details of.

- I will first talk with the players about the way we should be playing on. But as a starting point, it is whether we should put a team together, where we take advantage of the things each is best at. It is my job to bring the players ' qualities the best in the game, he explains.

While Hjulmand as mestertræner in FCN in 2012 went up in possession, he is now a coach who is also think of quick changeovers. It requires fast, dynamic players. Them Denmark, in spillertyper as Yussuf Poulsen, Martin Braithwaite and Pione Sisto.

- It is clearly one of the areas where I have developed myself. I would like to have quick changeovers in both directions. We lose the balls, we need to be quick on the return and in genpresset. When we won the ball, we should quickly towards the goal. I admit that just the part of the game, I have become much more aware of, he admits.

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Robert Forest reached the national team from the top League, where he played strongly for the FCK. But it is the people who come to the national team from the domestic league. Photo: Lars Poulsen. Hard to get at from the League

Neither Morten Olsen or Åge Hareide looked first to the League, when they had to take the national team.

It comes Kasper Hjulmand not to do, when he to august takes his first squad for the two matches in the Nations League against Belgium and England.

- Denmark has just now many good players in many of the large european leagues. Therefore one must be very skilled to get on the national team from the premier League. It is not at all impossible, but it is not easy, says Kasper Hjulmand.

- There are quality differences between the best leagues and the premier League. The German, Spanish, English and Italian league will always be better than the Danish. But the ambition is of course to close the gap. FCK has for many years been a hard effort. FCM and Brøndby are supposed to follow, he stresses.

Hjulmand will see the matches it is possible in the premier League, but the priority in the beginning is to visit landsholdsspillernes clubs abroad.

- When Europe will be open again, I will visit the players. For me it is important to find out what players the coach on the to the daily. I'm not going to drag the new stuff down over the head of Christian Eriksen, when he is at home in short time with the national team. It is therefore important I come around and talk with the players and the coaches.

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the WORLD cup in Qatar: a Waste of resources

Kasper Hjulmand is not up in the choir of those who will preach the morality of the way things are done in Qatar.

But he believes it is completely misguided, that FIFA has placed a WORLD cup finals, in the small ørkenstat, just about the size of Sjælland and Fyn.

- How to we political have ended up with a WORLD cup finals in Qatar is a mystery to me.

- It's about how we use our resources in the best way possible in the world. Now you have put the WORLD cup in december in a small country, where it all gets shaved down after the finals. It is completely pointless, think Kasper Hjulmand.

- Many people do not have very much here on earth. It is wrong to use so many resources to build so much new, as the page will not be used for any subsequent. It makes no sense, he says.

- But I am not one of those who believe that we have a better morality. On the way, we should take care to sit on our high horse and condemn other countries because they do things in a different way.

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Kasper Hjulmand have the utmost respect for the results that Åge Hareide has created. - He deserves to be hailed, says Hjulmand. Photo: Lars Poulsen. Hareide deserve the tribute

Kasper Hjulmand is looking forward to experience the european championship finals next summer in denmark, but he had preferred that it had been played in years, and he first joined the officially 1. august.

- The best had been that Åge Hareide, and the players had made it finished. Hareide deserve all possible respect for the foundation he has created. He came at a difficult time for the national team, but created a unity and a strong collective. And then he brought Denmark to two finals in the past, " says Kasper Hjulmand.

He believe and hope that the european championship finals next summer would be an opportunity to get the smiles back at the danes.

- EM can hopefully create excitement, joy, and hope. Specially after a coronatid, where we have been a little introverted. We need to rejoice and be together. The summer of 2021 is a welcome option.

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