After reaching the semifinals at the 2021 Euros, following the unfortunate loss of Christian Eriksen in the first match, Denmark begin their World Cup campaign 17 months later with their talismanic midfielder, seen as a team that are likely to make deep into the competition.
Tunisia will face the Kasper Hjulmand side to open the Group D action at the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Divesting from the top four Saudi Pro League domestic football clubs in the last few years, the Saudi state kick-started a system that freed their running from excessive top-down control. The team is almost entirely home-based, owing to the financial clout, but that doesn’t necessarily equate state ownership. Simon Chadwick, director of Eurasian Sport at Em Lyon Business School, had told Express last year that the new Saudi foray into loosening control set it apart from the Chinese pathway of micro-controlling their football.
