Selection of footballers in Denmark

Abstract

Football is Denmark's favorite national sport. According to the official website of the Danish Football Association (DBU), football as a strategy in Denmark integrates and enriches the culture of the Danish people regardless of age and ethnicity [9]. According to the official pages of FIFA and UEFA [10, 11], Today, Denmark is the European leader in the number of competitive and training football fields and small playgrounds for children in the "5 on 5" format. There are 1600 football clubs of various levels in Denmark, 50 football academies with a full staff of coaching and administrative staff are officially certified by the national association. At the courses under the auspices of UEFA, DBU constantly trains new coaches in order to ensure that the geographical coverage of certified children's and youth football locations is maximized and no child has to move to other cities in advance for the sake of football. Danish football functionaries want to develop players to play both on and off the football field, and thus focus on both professional football aspects and the individual and social skills of each child. The motto of Danish football specialists is: "We want to develop players who can think quickly, correctly and independently – both on and off the pitch." The study of the Danish experience of sports selection and selection of young (elite) and highly qualified football players ("Danish Football Fairy Tale") seems to be a sufficiently informative tool of knowledge in the current conditions of development of European and world football.