Tag: football

Ice-cold Albanians stun ‘Drillos’

Underdogs Albania inflicted a humiliating 1-0 loss on the Norwegian national football team (landslaget) on ice cold home turf in Oslo on Friday night...

Sun finally shone on sporty weekend

Norwegian sports fans were torn during the weekend among the annual Birkebeiner ski race in Lillehammer, World Cup competition at Holmenkollen in Oslo and...

Football squad ‘well-disciplined’

Norway's national football team was being praised on Monday for being disciplined with a good defense, after playing the second of two exhibition matches...

Rekdal returns to Vålerenga

Kjetil Rekdal, the sometimes surly football star who went on to coach professionally, has found himself a new job back at Vålerenga, the Oslo...

‘Landslaget’ claims New Year victory

Norway's national football team, known mostly as landslaget, gave their coach Egil "Drillo" Olsen a good start to the New Year by beating South...

Brutal reality for football coaches

UPDATED: Few jobs in Norway, or just about anywhere, have as little job security as those tied to coaching professional football. Jan Jönsson of...

Rekdal aims for a comeback

Kjetil Rekdal, the former Norwegian football star who was fired this week as head coach for the football club in Ålesund, is already plotting...

Unlikely team wins coveted Cup

Ever heard of Hødd? Not many people in Norway had either, before the football team from Ulsteinvik, a small town of barely 8,000 inhabitants...

Drillo delighted by youngsters’ debut

Egil "Drillo" Olsen was as delighted as the otherwise restrained head coach of Norway's national football team could be, after his youngest state squad...

Berg takes over at Blackburn

Norwegian football star Henning Berg was confirmed as the new manager of the Blackburn Rovers on Thursday, signing a three-year contract with the English...
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