Twenty-seven-year-old Elkjær signed for Hellas Verona F.C. in Italy in the summer of 1984 and, in his first season with the team, he played an instrumental role as it won the Serie A title, the "scudetto", for the first time in its history; he aided to that conquest with a solo left-flank run against Juventus FC (a 2–0 home win), where he lost his right boot, kept on running with the ball and ended up shooting home with his bootless right foot.