For many years in the 1990s and around the turn of the century the female Danish international team was the big favourite of the Danish public and Danish TV viewers - but a new generation of male players entered the stage in 2002 winning the bronze medal at the European Championships in Sweden and indeed winning the hearts of the handball-mad Danish nation. Players like Lars Christiansen, Lars Jorgensen, Kasper Hvidt, Michael Knudsen and Lasse Boesen also won the bronze medals at the European Championships 2004 and 2006 and at the World Championships in Germany 2007 before getting their biggest result so far: Gold medal at the latest European Championships in Norway 2008.

The players in the national squad of today are all ”products” of the famous Danish ”handball school” where talented players are spotted at a young age and carefully brought up through the ranks usually performing very well at international youth level. And new players are constantly on their way such as 22 year old Mikkel Hansen and the new goalkeeping star, Niklas Landin, who has been a member of the Danish youth team which won the World Championship in 2007, the European Championship in 2008 and the silver medals at the World Championship in the summer of 2009.