Press conference Simon Kjær before Denmark - Scotland

Press conference featuring Simon Kjær and Kasper Schmeichel

Kasper and Simon, did you have the time to process all the great things that happened this summer? Have you been able to move on? And what obligations do you feel after the results that you’ve achieved?

Kjær: “Somehow you are just trying to move on. But then again, you also take a lot with you. And it’s hard to process everything we’ve been through in such a short time. It was weird to run around at Wembley one evening and sit at home having dinner with my family the next evening. That contrast within such a short time was crazy. I said to my wife: "Probably I won't behave normally the next few days. I just need some time. I am used to get dinner served and get my laundry done when we were out there at the camp!” And things like that."

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Kjær: "So I had to get back to my normal daily rhythm with my kids again. But it was a good short summer. I could reflect on the things that happened and realised football is secondary. And as Kasper said the other day, it is quite hard to talk to people who don’t understand our lives. Whenever you say that you have experienced very intense things, people are laughing a bit and say: “You just have to get over it.“ But they will never understand it. It’s not that simple."

Kjær: "When you’ve been with your team mates for 42 days, together every single day, and in fact I didn’t go crazy to be locked inside that camp, it just makes it very special!"

"If we just had a week to sit down and reflect on things..., but there’s a match tomorrow. So, that makes it simple in our world. It’s the next game that’s important, and we have to focus on that when we are done with this press conference. There is a 100 percent focus on tomorrow’s match, so that is also gratifying.”

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Schmeichel: "Well, I couldn’t have said it any better myself. I feel the same way as Simon does. We’ve been together for such a long time and then suddenly have to find our rhythm again with our families. You can ask all the players, their wives and kids about it and they will all say the same thing."

"We’ve been taken good care of here at the Danish team. We are a little family and it feels like we've never been away from each other. This is an amazing camp and all of us have had a good summer. We have all been meeting and talking. We enjoyed us and got that feeling of "what happened?"."

Schmeichel: "We never left the camp to meet the fans, because UEFA didn’t want us to do that. But we did it in our spare time and walked around in Denmark. And all that joy, support and gratitude we had and the fans had to us, that was very unique. I never experienced that before. Not at that level and it makes it special, because I think we have built something as a country."

"We are where Danish football should be and now it is up to us to continue this. It all starts tomorrow, to continue that amazing feeling that football brings, the national feeling and the pride that we all have. There is no better place to start than at a full Parken tomorrow."

Kasper Schmeichel during the press conference.

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