Hakon Odegaard

Left Forward - Lillestrom
28 Sep 2028
Thursday
Process

Marked for Hakon Odegaard

101 Edition

The Lillestrom Courier

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Lillestrom

15 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

The terraces

The mood at Lillestrom has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Lillestrom

Position 16 and 6 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Player ratings

Yaw Paintsil runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

A first appearance Hakon Odegaard will want to forget — 5.73

Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.73, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.

Squad

Tempers go at Lillestrom

Martin Frýdek was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Sondre Tronstad falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

A bad afternoon for Lillestrom against Aalesund

1‑2 to Aalesund, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Ylldren Ibrahimaj gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

Back issues
37 Edition

The Lillestrom Courier

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Lillestrom

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Kevin Krygård in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lillestrom this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Markus Karlsbakk

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Lillestrom

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market

Kristian Henriksen steps up from the Lillestrom academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kristian Henriksen has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Hakon Odegaard joins the Lillestrom first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hakon Odegaard is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Sander Hauge joins the Lillestrom first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sander Hauge is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Lillestrom promote Fredrik Daehli from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fredrik Daehli has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Match

A bad afternoon for Lillestrom against Tromso

0‑1 to Tromso, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief