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The Dark Horse Rises: Norway's Road Back to the World Cup

by Craig Soto
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798199876421
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 122
  • Original Price: GBP 11.14
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 173 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Sports

Twenty-six years. Twelve failed campaigns. One generation that refused to accept the verdict of history.
In 1998, Norway stood among the elite of world football. They had defeated Brazil. They had climbed to second in the FIFA World Rankings. They had made the world take notice of a small Nordic nation with five million people and an unbreakable belief in what their football could achieve. Then it all went quiet.
For twenty-six years, Norway watched the World Cup from the outside. Campaign after campaign ended in the same familiar disappointment. A golden generation retired. A youth system failed to replace them. A football culture that had once punched above its weight began to wonder, in its quieter moments, whether the glory days were gone forever. They were not gone. They were waiting.
The Dark Horse Rises tells the full story of Norwegian football's most extraordinary journey, from the heights of the 1990s golden era through the painful wilderness decades and into the remarkable renaissance that carried Erling Haaland, Martin Odegaard, and a new generation of world-class talent back to the tournament that Norway had spent twenty-six years dreaming about.
This is a story about more than football. It is a story about what happens when a nation refuses to stop believing. It is about the structural reforms that nobody noticed until they changed everything, the manager who built a culture of collective belief from the ground up, and the players who carried the weight of a generation's hope and delivered on every last ounce of it.
The 2026 World Cup is here. Norway are in it. And the world is about to find out what a dark horse that has been waiting twenty-six years looks like when it finally runs. The wait is over. The story is complete. Get your copy of The Dark Horse Rises today and relive every moment of one of football's greatest comeback stories before the first match kicks off.

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