Having been put through the wringer by their team at Euro 2020 so far, Danish fans are preparing for another outpouring of emotion as the side takes on Russia on Monday needing a win to have any hope of making the knockout stage.
Christian Eriksen's cardiac arrest in the opening Group B game against Finland temporarily derailed all thoughts of the side repeating its victorious Euro 92 campaign, but his remarkable recovery has both the team and the fans wanting to get back to winning ways for him.
On a sultry weekend afternoon at Faelledparken, teams of boys born in 2006 and representing Skjold and Frederiksberg BK played on a bumpy grass pitch overlooked on one side by the Parken stadium, where Eriksen collapsed, and on the other by the Rigshospitalet hospital, where he was taken to recover.
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