The day before their match with China, Denmark team officials found two men with video cameras sitting behind a two-way mirror in the hotel conference room where the team was about to hold a strategy meeting.

"It's like a spy movie," Danish team press officer Pia Schou Nielsen said today. She said the men were Chinese, although Denmark coach Kenneth Heiner-Moller told reporters he did not know their nationalities.

The Denmark coach refused to shake hands with his China counterpart after his team's 3-2 loss in Group D on Wednesday night. And Heiner-Moller seemed to suggest at a post-game news conference that the reason was because the Chinese had broken some rules.

"I will not comment on that," he said when asked why he refused to greet China coach Marika Domanski-Lyfors after her team's win. "I'm quite sure we have made an official complaint to FIFA about things that happened prior to the match."

Though the Danish coach seemed to suggest initially that China was behind it, on Thursday he stressed that he was not singling anyone out.

"I can assure you there are no accusations whatsoever against China or Marika," he said, adding that he refused to shake hands with the Chinese coach because he was frustrated after a tough loss.

Domanski-Lyfors, who was Sweden's coach before joining the Chinese team in April, shrugged off the intrigue.

"I don't know what secrets Denmark would have because I know the whole team from before, we played them many, many times with Sweden," she said. "I don't think there are any secrets we would be interested in."