Article by Ionuţ Iordache, Adrian Jitea – published on Saturday, April 26, 2025 23:42 / Updated on Saturday, April 26, 2025 23:43
A team of Romanians established in Denmark, near Silkeborg, is gather every weekend to play in an amateur competition with unique rules. GSP reporters attended Saturday's victory and noted some unique details of the Danish “county”.
Denmark is indeed the “country of happiness”. At least for athletes. Only the ugly people do not move, those have disease on the balls, wheels or running shoes. In the central region, the hectares covered with forests are interrupted from place to place by a settlement where they still put them in the boulder. About daily life in these places, in a future edition. Now we talk about sports.
Each dawned locality in forests without forest has an irreproachable sports base. Leaded by Mihai, a Romanian established in northern Europe for more than a decade, a former footballer in the lower leagues in Romania, I discovered two such constructions.
Photo. The Romanians made a team in Denmark
In the first locality, the town of ANS, with about 2,000 inhabitants, the gym draws your attention through the sales of a Saturday, without matches. Open all the time for various activities, today he had hosted some competitions for schoolchildren. Later, the interior canteen had been occupied by a veterans dinner.
The room in the town of ANS
It all took place with a fascinating lightness, without anyone raising an eyebrow when a stranger treads the threshold. I could reach the parquet, where a few children threw handball balls, others dribbled as Eriksen. A reason for the success of the Nordics in handball. Whenever, a few meters from the house, two gates are available.
Outside, 3 football fields normal dimensions. The lawn was not perfect. They compensated the blue of the sky and the quietness only disturbed the birds nestled in the surrounding forest. A true sports club. Without pretensions, but with a lot of sections.
Enrolled in the football-handball championship
One of the teams in the locality consists of 100% of Romanians. Rapidists, Oltenians, Galatians, Vali Crețu's fans. Play football for pleasure. They made a cheat to register in the championship, a kind of “county” in the Silkeborg area. One with unique rules to strange.
Today, the “tricolors” had a moving match. About 15 kilometers from the first base, also among the trees, another wonder, in the city of Langå. Fantastic by its usefulness, not necessarily through equipment. The locals from the house leave the house and come across an excellent lawn. The sponsors who wanted to display their names with a match with 30 spectators jump in their eyes. Few, but pamper.
A lot of advertising panels at a “county” match
The stadium has modern changing rooms, clean bathrooms, showers and an interior store, not the classic mobile curtain, from where you can buy the whole range of drinks, but also food, some crescents that few have refused.
We return to football with bizarre rules. A single referee is sent by the Zonal Association to matches. Usually one passed by the first youth. The “advisers” are improvised, usually among the coaches of the two combatants. The “central” has maximum authority and a rugby -inspired behavior. Communicates every decision, men understand it and rarely comment.
The game sheet contains only 14 footballers. There are 11 holders and 3 reserves. Changes, unlimited. A system similar to handball. Enter and go out when I wish. Also from handball, temporary eliminations were borrowed. A yellow card is punished by 10 minutes on the bench and a temporary inferiority. The red card means that the punished player goes to the locker rooms. After 10 minutes, a colleague can take his place.
VIDEO. Football player temporarily eliminated in the match of Romanians in Denmark
The Romanian team started today with the second chance. He met a team ranked on a better place in the 5th football series. The rhythm was out of the way. Nordici, with the “axes”, ours with fantasy. Within certain limits. More limits ….
ANS IF entered 3-0 at the break and prevailed with 4-2. The goalkeeper Adrian, the one who looked from 11 meters, had an important role.
With him we will see ourselves tomorrow, at Team Esbjerg – CSM Bucharest, The decisive for finally qualifying the Four of the Champions League for women's handball. He has caught tickets and, together with the family, will be among the approximately 100 “tricolors” fans.
The referee whistle triggered the chase to the dispenser. Not before the fair-play gestures between the players and coaches of the two bands. Group picture and run to beer!
Bonus information:
- In 2024, in a UN report, Denmark was declared the second happiest country in the world. The first position was occupied by Finland.
- In this competition, the referees do not give 5% to the hosts. On the contrary. In the limit phases, the balance is inclined in favor of teams with foreigners. In the past, there have been complaints about racism in this area. In order to avoid such situations, the “hosts” have become “foreigners”. Not only the Romanian community has made a team. Serbs are famous in the area. They arrived in the third echelon and administer weekly scores made famous by their compatriot Novak Djokovic.
