FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Euro 2020 Qualifier - Group J - Greece v Finland - OAKA Spiros Louis, Athens, Greece - November 18, 2019 Finland players pose for a team group photo before the match REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis/File Photo
(Reuters) - Finland are finally ready to make their bow at the finals of a major soccer tournament and will be basing their template for success on Iceland and Sweden as they take on Denmark, Russia and Belgium in Group B at Euro 2020.
For over a century their biggest achievement has been a fourth-place finish at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm when Finland was still part of the Russian Empire, but captain Tim Sparv and striker Teemu Pukki are ready to write a new chapter.
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