Middlesbrough’s Viktor Fischer is one of a young generation of Danish footballers who almost always come across excellently. They speak their minds and do so with intelligence and a clear love of the game.
Unfortunately it hasn’t really worked out for Denmark on the pitch yet with the new generation, they’ve very much been lacking a national team leader since Daniel Agger decided to call it a day.
It’s going to be a hard task to see the group all fulfil their talent, both with the national team and at club level.
At just 22 years of age, Viktor Fischer already knows football can be cruel, and back when he was once dreaming of a Manchester United transfer, fate dealt the youngster a poor hand. In February 2014, Fischer picked up a hamstring injury which saw him out of the game for 14 months.
It disrupted his ambitious Manchester United plans. In an interview with Denmark’s Tipsbladet, Fischer has revealed how he was thinking his career may go, before the setback: “When I was 15, I played at FC Midtjylland. The next thing was my move to Ajax, and when I had played two years there, I would move to Manchester United and within a year be the best footballer in the world.”
Following his injury, and subsequent return to the game, Fischer quickly realised that football simply doesn’t work that way, well not for him at least: “At one point, you can see that this isn’t how the football world works. Unless your name is Lionel Messi.”
Fischer is determined to fulfil his early promise, but is under no illusion that he faces a difficult task ahead. At Middlesbrough, instead of Manchester United, Fischer feels he’s made the right choice in moving to England, and is ready for all the hard work ahead of him.
