Akankah model modern Norwegia yang apik berhasil di mana kelas '94 gagal?
Tim Ståle Solbakken yang cepat dan fleksibel jauh dari unit tanpa embel-embel yang terakhir kali lolos ke Piala Dunia tetapi tantangan baru menanti Jika generasi Norwegia yang sangat disukai membutuhkan peringatan dari sejarah, mereka hanya perlu melihat ke belakang 32 tahun dan mempelajari pelajaran dari musim panas Amerika yang membakar dan menegangkan. Mereka telah berlomba melalui kualifikasi dengan mengorbankan Inggris untuk mencapai Piala Dunia pertama mereka sejak 1938;...
Ståle Solbakken’s fast, flexible side are far from the no-frills unit that last made the World Cup but new challenges await
If Norway’s highly fancied generation need a warning from history they need only look back 32 years and study the lessons from another searing, suspenseful American summer. They had raced through qualifying at England’s expense to reach their first World Cup since 1938; their top players were starting to make it in the Premier League and through the euphoria shone a confidence that a place in the knockout stage, at least, was there to be seized.
“When we got there we didn’t manage to even get close to the quality of play we had produced in qualification,” remembers Lars Bohinen, one of the silkier elements in a side that, under Egil Olsen, became renowned for an uncompromising and no-frills approach. “That’s the biggest disappointment when I talk now to my old teammates. We never got near to performing at the level we needed.”
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