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.”
