History of the most successful football club in history, which is a polar circle | Football

There will be-glymt-the most successful Scandinavian club of recent years, which is incredible with its geographical coordinates. 200 km by the polar circle mean that in January the sun appears here for an average of 50 minutes.

The champion tells how the Norwegians managed to develop football where it seemed impossible.

They won Lazio

And it was in all newspapers last week.

2: 0!

But even earlier, there will be a glyimt in the press through a snowfall, which on the day of the match, the town and the Aspmura stadium, shocked by thermophilic Italians. They have already thought that they would be transferred, but where there!

People in will know what to do with snow – otherwise they do not survive.

When Lazio went to the field, he became convinced that there would be a glyimt also well versed in a ball game. Their captain Ulrick Saltnes mowed a double, scoring in aesthetics.

« The artificial field affected the match, – was justified Coach of the Romans Marco Baroni. – We are not used to such conditions, and the opponent plays here weekly. Who knows football understands what I say.  »

The fate of the truth is. Natural lawns are impossible behind the polar circle, and the artificial coating will need to be accustomed. Earlier this season, « Lightning » was already beaten at home Porta (3: 2), Besiktash (2: 1), McCabi (3: 1), Twente (5: 2), Olympiakos (3: 0) – and each coach said about the same as Baroni.

However, Guest 2: 1 in Braza, 1: 1 in Nice and 2: 3 on « Old Trafford » with Mana United show that it is not just a climate.

There will be-glymt-above all, a quality team playing modern football.

Even in Norway, not everyone is used to it.

For the first time in the Polar

55 thousand will be not just Norway, but its north, Nur-Norge.

In winter, the sun appears here for 50-70 minutes, and although the Gulf Stream protects the city from fierce frosts, there are very heavy winds, often with precipitation.

Local and called the city-« will be-on-vitri ».

During the Cold War, they built an air base that covered the northern flank of NATO. Combat F35 They stood until 2023, when they were transported to another place, leaving only rescuers’ helicopters.

There will be legendary and dangerous for sailors, Lofaten’s islands, where fishermen catch the most fatty cod in the world.

It is also the city is the extreme point of the Norwegian railway. Even further north is life, but without track connection with the « outside » world.

Imagine football here? For decades there will be a glyimt in the Norwegian league team-lift-and even it was cool in such conditions.

« Oh, it was a long journey, – Shakes Head of Saltnes. – In 2011, we did not even have an equipment. We bought the form ourselves, and we got to the match ourselves. The level of everything you see was much lower.  »

And imagine-in 2018, the trainer will be Glyimta Kietil Knutsen and announced that from now on they, the 11th team of Eliteeerie, will start playing like Grand.

The strategy is to attack

« Throughout the history of 2018, Glimt was a counter-attack team. We decided not to change it but to adapt a little. First, we had to press higher in the field with the whole team. We had to learn to play with a high line of protection. Second, we had to create more moments in rapid attacks, » tells Then Knutsen Morten Calvennes assistant.

Like Knutsen, he trained a lot in Europe, saw different methods – and most liked the classes in Marcelo Bielsi.

The players will be waiting for difficult times. The scheme of the game was changed to 4-3-3 with an emphasis on the attack. Sparring became more intense; Only 4 seconds were given to the game into the game, who did not have time – lost its possession. Rondo and whole matches were also added in a very limited space.

Lightning extinger Ola Solbakken described it as a « perection »-according to him, at that time, the class in the glyimt was more complicated than the matches.

On the other hand, the matches may have become simple for them, because they were well ready for them?

In any case, already in the 2019 championship, it will finish the 2nd, and in the year, in the midst of the pandemic, he won the debut gold of the Norwegian championship.

« It was a completely new feeling. I never won the championship, no one on the team never won the championship and even the club itself has never won it. It is impossible to describe with words », – – assures Calvenes.

No less emotionally, the locals experienced it. 200-600 people in masks were allowed to « Aspmure », so people watched football from the roofs of houses and even rented cranes!

Well, they had something to look at.

In the 2020 season there will be 81 points out of 90 possible, and in 30 rounds he scored 103 goals. Both indicators are record for Norway.

The best players of « Lightning » Casper Juncker, Philip Zinkernagel, Jens-Peter Haughe immediately took away other clubs for good money, but the team did not collapse, kept his face and won three more gold in Norway by 2025, and once finished another.

You will not call them callings for an hour, like Lester-2016 or Greece-2004.

In 2020, this glyimt gave Milan fight in the qualification of the Europa League (2: 3).

In a year, the restless Knutsen and his boys have historically mocked Jose Mourinho’s Roma in the group round of the conference League (6: 1), before the « wolves » took a rematch in the quarterfinals (4: 0).

In 2022, Dynamo Zagreb in the Playoff-Runda Champions League qualifying in the Extratias will only be in the extract, and in the Europa League he fought with Zurich and PSV worthy.

And now they are on the new top – in the quarter -finals of the Europa League – they have beautifully overcome Lazio at home and will try to keep the advantage in Rome.

Who else has been in Europe in Europe in the last 10 years? There are no such.

Meditation with a pilot bomber

Well, and while Knutsen came up with the identity of the glyimt on the field, the « lightning » directors were engaged in the same in offices and media.

« We are more than other Norwegian clubs, we are talking about values ​​and working on promoting our region. It will be forced people from the north to feel pride for their origin. Once my father was not given to my father in Oslo the apartment, because he is with Nur-Norge, and now everyone is readily discussing. » He says The General will be-glyimta Frode Thomas.

He came up with players so that at least 40% of the composition were natives of the North.

It will be not only a club from the Polar, but also to represent the local people and their identity.

Thanks to this approach, somewhere similar to the Basque athletics and Real Madrid, the players feel additional responsibility, and the business in Nur-Norge has almost all put into the club, because he also wants to be involved in the success of his local guys. Brilliant marketing move.

Well, there is another secret associated with the closed Nativ air base. His name is Bjorn Mannsverk, And he was a former military pilot who, among other things, bombed Libya in 2011, and after the service he received his second education of a psychologist.

So in the glyimt he will be responsible for the mood of players, their moral spirit.

« In the beginning, the guys were very quiet, non -communicative, which was different from my work with pilots. I conducted individual sessions and group sessions with them, gave homework. I tried to instill the idea that the main thing is not the result, but the quality of work. Excessive focus on the result is only stress. » He says Mannverk.

On the day of their acquaintance, the current supporter of the Norway national team Patrick Berg wanted to throw football – he was tortured depression.

Also tied with the game through constant defeat and Saltnes, who now recognizes: « I don’t think we could play so boldly without Bjorn and classes with him. »

Always come back

So, they press high, represent the filling and go to a psychologist – often saw this in the playoff of the European Cups?

But there is a glyimta and one is not too pleasant nuance.

Although lightning for five years on the top of Norwegian football, only one star has played in the Great Leagues – Victor Bonfeys from Bayer. Other daredevils showed nothing in the warmer lands, returning back dogs.

Today, there will be a lot of them in the start. Yes, Jes-Peter Hauge failed in Milan and Eintracht. Patrick Berg looked just awful in Lance. Chacon Evienne did not take root in Alkmaar and Brondby. Fredrick Bjorkan went very unsuccessfully to Herta and Fairy.

Only at home they play strongly, and it is not longing for polar nights, but their level. These guys are effective except as screws in a well -thought -out system of Knutsen.

It is he, the coach, here is the main star.

The rest is helping him-like, for example, in 2018-23 did Kalvenes: « We were looking for guys with an X-factor that could be developed further. For example, Solbakken we took for his speed. Our wingers played quickly and straight-that was needed. But Bjorkan was taken because he was well promoted the ball forward. »

It is difficult to find a comprehensive original in Nur-Norge, there are 450 thousand inhabitants, and the transfer record will be only 4.8 million euros.

It is really interesting – will this project be able to flourish with another trainer and another group of performers? Since 2018, the weather will be made globally by the same names.

Well, but then it will.

So far in the Polarian holiday. In November, as many as 6,500 locals – 17% of the population will be flying to Manchester to see their « Old Trafford ». The club has already laid a new base and found sponsors for a new stadium for 10,000 seats that could take the Champions League matches.

And no, Lazio will not be easy, let it not even expect. These are the north in the south, but together they are strength.